Mouse cursor disappears, shake mouse (trackpad swipes), Sierra logs me out

Question

Level 1

67 points

Mouse cursor disappears, shake mouse (trackpad swipes), Sierra logs me out

I've got a strange problem that has happened several times.

I'm using my MacBook Pro (Mid-2010) running Sierra 10.12.1 and the mouse cursor (the pointer) seems to have disappeared. So I swipe back and forth to get the giant cursor to see where it is. Most times this works fine. But sometimes (has happened at least four times to me) there's an immediate logout of my profile. I'm now at the login screen and have to type-in my password to get back in. All applications seem to launch much faster than a normal boot-up login so maybe they were still resident in memory, but I know they are restarting because the GPG plugin for Mail isn't compatible yet and I always get a pop-up telling me that when Mail app starts.

What could be causing my Mac to suddenly logout just because I'm shaking my mouse cursor?

MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12.1), 8GB RAM, 1TB SSD

Posted on Dec 6, 2016 12:28 AM

Reply

Answer 1

John Galt

Level 10

155,594 points

Dec 6, 2016 5:23 AM in response to Baron Sekiya

What could be causing my Mac to suddenly logout just because I'm shaking my mouse cursor?

A non-Apple system modification or other resident program.

If simply restarting your Mac does not immediately solve the problem, consider the following two suggestions:

Try safe mode if your Mac doesn't finish starting up.
- Compare how your Mac works in Safe Mode to how it has been.
- Then, restart normally. If the same problem returns, please read the section If an issue doesn't happen in safe mode for Apple's recommended actions.
How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac.
- When you are finished troubleshooting, you can remove the temporary User Account by following these instructions: macOS Sierra: Delete a user or group.
- Before removing it, confirm you don't need any of the files you might have created in that Account.

Reply