High Sierra macOS freezing and stops

Always looking for a solution. I wonder if this is not the Thunderbolt that would be involved with High Sierra

I have my system installed on an external drive SSD LACIE RUGGED

On my MacBook Pro the system is installed in internal and I have no worries

I have read here that many people have problems with external screens, this one surely connected in Thunderbolt one

Maybe the management of the Thunderbolt 1 by High Sierra is the cause of our problems?

There must be some miscommunication about Time Machine backup of passwords saved in Safari. If you don't use iCloud Keychain, then Safari saves your passwords in the local Keychain. I suspect that if you save in Safari, the passwords are saved in the Safari folder in your User's Library. While you can restore your local Keychain from Time Machine it's not the best way to recover a password IMHO.

Since you don't like the cloud you might find this password manager more to your liking. It doesn't sync. Has a demo you can try first. It was the first password manger I used before I went to sync. It's $20. v4.2 works in High Sierra. The author also makes URL Manager Pro that has been around forever.

See the tour: http://www.web-confidential.com/tour.html

Check in App Store to see when you download High Sierra. If you installed the same day this would be the easiest option. Not sure how you would check in Time Machine for exact date. I've never used Time Machine to restore. I always make a clone backup before updating the OS. It's set aside in case I ever want to revert. I highly suggest you make a clone backup before you revert.

Software used to Clone:

CarbonCopyCloner http://www.bombich.com/download.html (All options are available free for 30 days)

SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/ (Free forever to do an erase and install. Purchased version allows for smart updates and schedules)

Over the past few years I've had occasional Very Bad slowdowns/lagging and I could not figure out what it was. I came across this article recently and I'm trying this. Perhaps this will help you. Good luck!

Disable tailspind and spindump to Speed Up your Mac - The Mac Observer

Same problem here.

First the program I'm using freezes and I have to force quit it.

Opening the app again is not possible, the icon in the dock just keeps jumping and stops after a while.

No point under the icon, so it is not opened, but force quitting is still possible...

Then any other app which was opened freezes when trying to work in that app.

Restarting the Mac is not possible, it takes forever and IF all apps get closed the Mac tries to shut down but only gets dark and freezes. Only shutting down with power button works...

tl;dr

• my machine crashes such that I can’t use mouse/keyboard/VNC to do anything
• can still access remotely via SSH/SFTP
• might be related to Apple Screen Sharing (VNC) remote access
• when problem occurs, first Dock crashes, followed by other services crashing, followed by infinite repeat crashing of com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays

My experience is somewhat different:

• My machine crashes to a blank screen (black with the screen backlight on)

  sometimes with a mouse pointer that still correctly moves if I move the mouse.

• I cannot get the machine to do anything with the physical mouse/keyboard

  restart/shutdown/logout hotkeys do nothing

• I cannot access the machine via VNC
• I can access the machine via SSH/SFTP, and from command line everything looks good, but I'm unable to kill/restart any process that actually recovers the current session

  I can force a shutdown through SSH, though sometimes the machine doesn't successfully shutdown and I still have to do a hard boot with the physical power button

System info:

2013 Mac Pro

• 12 core Intel Xeon
• 64GB memory
• 1TB SSD (APFS, reformatted right before OS install)

• Fresh, clean install of macOS 10.13, since updated to 10.13.3
  • After install, manually copied only user documents from Time Machine backup,

• not using migration assistant, so there’s absolutely no leftover junk from previous use of this machine
• Connected devices
  • Thunderbolt Display
    • USB Apple keyboard connected to display
  • BT Apple Magic Mouse
• Only a handful of applications installed
  • MS Office

• Wolfram Mathematica

• Parallels Desktop

• Synology Drive (dropbox-like sync tool for Synology NAS)

• Drobo Dashboard (for administering a Drobo NAS)
• Note about another machine:
  • all the applications listed are also installed on my 2012 MBPr,

• also running a clean install of macOS 10.13.3 on APFS SSD,

• with many kernel extensions,

• with Bartender 3 installed (attributed to similar problems here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8076643)

• MBPr has NEVER experienced this problem.

That said, I have some system logs that hint at the problem. An excerpt from my system.log follows at the end of this post.

• It starts immediately after a restart (after updating to macOS 10.13.3).
• The only thing I had done since booting the machine was to login to the primary user account. I then logged into a second user account via Apple Screen Sharing, opened Apple Mail, and closed the connection.
• Minutes later (at the top of the log output) the Dock crashed, followed by a series of other services crashing
• From this point the computer has basically crashed.

  I’m unable to do anything using the physical screen/mouse/keyboard or though screen sharing

• For the next 50 minutes, the log shows repeated failures of com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays

  Note: There is only one display on the machine

I assume this has something to do with Apple Screen Sharing being used to access a secondary user account using a virtual desktop/mouse/keyboard

• At 11:41:04 I log in via SSH and initiate a shutdown from command line

This leads me to believe the behavior has something to do with Apple Screen Sharing. Unfortunately, this machine was specifically purchased for remote access, so not accessing it remotely is not an acceptable workaround.

I’ve also included output from EtreCheck, which doesn’t show anything helpful other than to indicate that this machine has very little software installed at which to point a finger.

(Begin log output)

Jan 26 10:53:00 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.Dock.agent[1304]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1

Jan 26 10:53:00 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000006.prl_client_app[1297]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1

Jan 26 10:53:05 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.contacts.donation-agent[1267]): Service did not exit 5 seconds after SIGTERM. Sending SIGKILL.

Jan 26 10:53:05 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.rapportd[1169]): Service did not exit 5 seconds after SIGTERM. Sending SIGKILL.

Jan 26 10:53:10 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:53:17 blackalchemy com.apple.AmbientDisplayAgent[1800]: BUG in libdispatch client: dispatch_mig_server: mach_msg() failed (ipc/send) msg too small - 0x10000008

Jan 26 10:53:20 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:53:50 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:53:50 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:54:20 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:54:20 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:54:50 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:54:50 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:55:20 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:55:20 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:55:40 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:55:40 blackalchemy syslogd[43]: ASL Sender Statistics

Jan 26 10:55:50 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:55:53 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.PubSub.Agent[1823]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.pubsub.ipc

Jan 26 10:55:53 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.PubSub.Agent[1823]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.pubsub.notification

Jan 26 10:56:00 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:56:30 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:56:30 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:57:00 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:57:00 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:57:30 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:57:30 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:58:00 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:58:00 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:58:31 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:58:31 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:59:01 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:59:01 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 10:59:31 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 10:59:31 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:00:01 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:00:01 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:00:31 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:00:31 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:01:01 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:01:01 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:01:31 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:01:31 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:02:01 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:02:01 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:02:31 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:02:31 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:03:01 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:03:01 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:03:31 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:03:31 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:04:01 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:04:01 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:04:31 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:04:31 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:05:01 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:05:01 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:05:31 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:05:31 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:05:41 --- last message repeated 1 time ---

Jan 26 11:05:41 blackalchemy syslogd[43]: ASL Sender Statistics

Jan 26 11:05:51 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:06:22 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:06:22 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:06:52 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:06:52 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:07:22 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:07:22 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:07:52 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:07:52 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:08:22 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:08:22 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:08:52 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:08:52 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:09:22 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:09:22 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:09:52 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:09:52 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:10:22 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:10:22 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:10:52 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:10:52 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:11:22 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:11:22 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:11:52 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:11:52 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:12:22 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:12:22 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:12:52 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:12:52 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:13:22 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:13:22 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:13:53 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:13:53 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:14:23 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:14:23 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:14:53 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:14:53 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:15:23 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:15:23 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:15:43 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:15:43 blackalchemy syslogd[43]: ASL Sender Statistics

Jan 26 11:15:53 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:16:23 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:16:23 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:16:53 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:16:53 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:17:23 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:17:23 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:17:53 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:17:53 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:17:53 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[1982]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:17:53 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:18:03 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:18:33 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:18:33 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:19:03 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:19:03 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:19:33 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:19:33 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:19:55 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:19:55 blackalchemy syncdefaultsd[1981]: BUG in libdispatch client: kevent[mach_recv] monitored resource vanished before the source cancel handler was invoked

Jan 26 11:20:03 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:20:33 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:20:33 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:20:57 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:20:57 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[2007]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:20:57 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:21:03 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:21:33 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:21:33 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:22:04 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:22:04 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:22:34 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:22:34 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:22:57 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:22:57 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[2026]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:22:57 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:23:04 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:23:34 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:23:34 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:24:04 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:24:04 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:24:34 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:24:34 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:24:58 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:24:58 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[2043]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:24:58 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:25:04 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:25:34 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:25:34 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:25:44 blackalchemy syslogd[43]: ASL Sender Statistics

Jan 26 11:25:44 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:26:14 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:26:14 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:26:44 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:26:44 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:26:58 --- last message repeated 1 time ---

Jan 26 11:26:58 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[2060]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:26:58 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:27:04 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:27:34 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:27:34 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:28:04 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:28:04 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:28:34 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:28:34 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:28:58 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:28:58 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[2077]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:28:58 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:29:04 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:29:35 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:29:35 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:30:05 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:30:05 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:30:08 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:30:15 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:30:45 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:30:45 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:30:59 --- last message repeated 1 time ---

Jan 26 11:30:59 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[2096]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:30:59 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:31:05 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:31:35 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:31:35 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:31:54 --- last message repeated 1 time ---

Jan 26 11:31:54 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing[2104]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.screensharing.server

Jan 26 11:31:55 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:31:59 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing.agent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:05 --- last message repeated 5 times ---

Jan 26 11:32:05 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:06 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing.agent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:15 --- last message repeated 8 times ---

Jan 26 11:32:15 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:15 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing.agent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:25 --- last message repeated 9 times ---

Jan 26 11:32:25 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:25 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing.agent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:35 --- last message repeated 9 times ---

Jan 26 11:32:35 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:36 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing.agent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:45 --- last message repeated 8 times ---

Jan 26 11:32:45 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:45 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing.agent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:55 --- last message repeated 9 times ---

Jan 26 11:32:55 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:56 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing.agent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.

Jan 26 11:32:59 --- last message repeated 3 times ---

Jan 26 11:32:59 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[2174]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:32:59 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:33:00 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing.agent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.

Jan 26 11:33:05 --- last message repeated 4 times ---

Jan 26 11:33:05 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:33:05 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing.agent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.

Jan 26 11:33:15 --- last message repeated 3 times ---

Jan 26 11:33:15 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:33:45 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:33:45 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:34:15 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:34:15 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:34:45 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:34:45 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:34:59 --- last message repeated 1 time ---

Jan 26 11:34:59 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[2202]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:35:00 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:35:05 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:35:35 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:35:35 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:35:45 --- last message repeated 1 time ---

Jan 26 11:35:45 blackalchemy syslogd[43]: ASL Sender Statistics

Jan 26 11:35:55 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:36:25 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:36:25 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:36:55 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:36:55 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:37:00 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[2219]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:37:00 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:37:05 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:37:35 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:37:35 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:38:06 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:38:06 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:38:36 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:38:36 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:39:00 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:39:00 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[2236]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:39:00 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:39:06 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:39:36 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:39:36 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:40:06 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:40:06 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:40:36 --- last message repeated 2 times ---

Jan 26 11:40:36 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:40:50 --- last message repeated 1 time ---

Jan 26 11:40:50 blackalchemy sshd: mtg [priv][2251]: USER_PROCESS: 2254 ttys000

Jan 26 11:40:56 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.preference.displays.MirrorDisplays): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Jan 26 11:41:01 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iCloudHelper[2261]): GUI session does not exist for service to join. It will be spawned without access to the GUI.

Jan 26 11:41:01 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Jan 26 11:41:04 blackalchemy sudo[2259]: mtg : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/mtg ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/shutdown -r now

Jan 26 11:41:05 blackalchemy shutdown[2263]: SHUTDOWN_TIME: 1516992065 2772

Jan 26 11:41:05 blackalchemy com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.system): System shutdown initiated by: shutdown.2263<-sudo.2259<-bash.2255<-sshd.2254<-sshd.2251<-launchd.1

Jan 26 11:41:34 localhost bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1516992094 0

(End log output)

(Begin EtreCheck output)

EtreCheck version: 3.4.6 (460)
Report generated 2018-01-26 12:03:01
Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.comRuntime: 2:12
Performance: Excellent

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Problem: Other problem
Description:
The macOS GUI crashes and I’m left with a blank screen. This is a fresh install of macOS with only a applications installed, none of which are kernel extensions, and all of which were installed in the prev installed macOS version (10.11) without any problems.

Once the crash occurs, I can still access the Mac via SSH and there’s no indication of any problem, b unable to access via VNC (screen sharing) or by using the physical screen/mouse/keyboard. I’m forc restart from command line or by doing a hard boot.

Hardware Information: i Mac Pro (Late 2013)
[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service] Mac Pro - model: MacPro6,1
1 2.7 GHz 12-Core Intel Xeon E5 (Xeon(R)) CPU: 12-core
64 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]

DIMM1
16 GB DDR3 ECC 1866 MHz ok

DIMM2
16 GB DDR3 ECC 1866 MHz ok

DIMM3
16 GB DDR3 ECC 1866 MHz ok

DIMM4
16 GB DDR3 ECC 1866 MHz ok

Handoff/Airdrop2: supported Wireless: en2: Unknown
iCloud Quota: 9.79 GB available

Video Information: i AMD FirePro D500 - VRAM: 3 GB

Display 2560 x 1440 @ 60 Hz AMD FirePro D500 - VRAM: 3 GB

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Display 2560 x 1440 @ 60 Hz

Disk Information: i APPLE SSD SM1024F disk0: (1 TB) (Solid State - TRIM: Yes) [Show SMART report]

EFI (disk0s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB (disk0s2) <not mounted> [APFS Container]: 1.00 TB

USB Information: i USB20Bus

hub_device
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller USB20Bus

hub_device
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub

Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Display) Apple Inc. Apple Thunderbolt Display Apple Inc. Display Audio

USB30Bus

Thunderbolt Information: i Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus_2

Apple Inc. Thunderbolt Display Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus_1 Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus_0

Virtual disks: i Macintosh HD (disk1s1 - APFS) / [Startup]: 1.00 TB (788.62 GB free)

Physical disk: disk0s2 1.00 TB (788.62 GB free)

(disk1s2) <not mounted> [Preboot]: 1.00 TB

Physical disk: disk0s2 1.00 TB

(disk1s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 1.00 TB

Physical disk: disk0s2 1.00 TB (disk1s4) /private/var/vm [VM]: 1.00 TB

Physical disk: disk0s2 1.00 TB

System Software: i macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 (17D47) - Time since boot: less than an hour

Gatekeeper: i

Mac App Store and identified developers

Possible adware: i Unknown file: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.synology.SynologyDrive.plist

/usr/bin/open /Applications/Synology Drive.app One possible adware file found. [Remove/Report]

Kernel Extensions: i /Applications/Parallels Desktop.app

[loaded] com.parallels.kext.hypervisor (13.2.0 43213 - SDK 10.9) [Lookup] [loaded] com.parallels.kext.netbridge (13.2.0 43213 - SDK 10.9) [Lookup]
[not loaded] com.parallels.kext.usbconnect (13.2.0 43213 - SDK 10.9) [Lookup] [loaded] com.parallels.kext.vnic (13.2.0 43213 - SDK 10.9) [Lookup]

/System/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.TrustedData.driver.VendorSpecificType00 (1.7.0 - SDK 10.7) [Lookup] [not loaded] com.drobo.SCSI.ThunderBolt (1.1 - SDK 10.8) [Lookup]

System Launch Agents: i [not loaded] 9 Apple tasks [loaded] 171 Apple tasks [running] 110 Apple tasks

System Launch Daemons: i [not loaded] 35 Apple tasks [loaded] 190 Apple tasks [running] 105 Apple tasks

Launch Agents: i

[loaded] [loaded] [loaded]

com.microsoft.update.agent.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2018-01-23) [Looku com.nulana.rxagentmac.user.plist (Nulana LTD - installed 2018-01-07) [Lookup] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist (Apple Inc. - XQuartz - installed 2016-10-26) [Look

Launch Daemons: i

[running] [running] [loaded] [loaded]

[Lookup]

com.datarobotics.ddservice64d.plist (Drobo, Inc. - installed 2017-12-15) [Lookup]

com.datarobotics.ddserviced.plist (? 5ae83f29 8ff56e9d - installed 2015-01-12) [Look com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2018-01-23) [L com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2016-12-

p u

u o 0

[running] com.nulana.rxagentmac.daemon.plist (Nulana LTD - installed 2018-01-07) [Lookup]

[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist (Apple Inc. - XQuartz - installed 2016-10 [Lookup]

User Launch Agents: i [loaded] com.synology.SynologyDrive.plist (? 96f4a938 0 - installed 2018-01-26) [Lookup]

User Login Items: i DDAssist Application

(/Applications/Drobo Dashboard.app/Contents/Resources/DDAssist.app) Update Mail filters periodically Application

(~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Mail/Update Mail filters periodically.app) twilson Volume - Hidden

(/Volumes/twilson)

Internet Plug-ins: i QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (installed 2018-01-26)

Safari Extensions: i [not loaded] Open in Internet Explorer - Parallels - http://www.parallels.com(installed 2018-0

3rd Party Preference Panes: i None

Time Machine: i Auto backup: YES Volumes being backed up:

Macintosh HD: Disk size: 1.00 TB Disk used: 211.73 GB Destinations:

TM_BlackAlchemy [Network] Total size: 1.93 TB
Total number of backups: 30 Oldest backup: 1/12/18, 1:34 PM Last backup: 1/26/18, 11:50 AM Size of backup disk: Adequate

Backup size 1.93 TB > (Disk used 211.73 GB X 3)

Top Processes by CPU: i 3% kernel_task

1% sysmond
1% mDNSResponder

-

1

1% launchd 1% Safari

Top Processes by Memory: i

3.21 GB 337 MB 212 MB 210 MB 96 MB

kernel_task mds_stores Mail prl_client_app Safari

Top Processes by Network Use: i

Input

133 MB 97 KB 4 MB
1 MB

1 MB

Output

672 KB 38 MB 113 KB 50 KB 27 KB

Process name

mDNSResponder screensharingd netbiosd kernel_task

Mail

Top Processes by Energy Use: i 3.86 screensharingd
3.72 WindowServer
3.02 DDService64d

2.76 ScreensharingAgent 1.34 Activity Monitor

Virtual Memory Information: i

56.22 GB
45.95 GB
7.78 GB
10.27 GB
0 B Swap Used

Available RAM Free RAM Used RAM Cached files

Software installs (last 30 days): i Remotix Agent: (installed 2018-01-07)
XQuartz 2.7.11: (installed 2018-01-07)
Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac: (installed 2018-01-12) Microsoft AutoUpdate: (installed 2018-01-12) Microsoft Excel for Mac: (installed 2018-01-12) Microsoft Word for Mac: (installed 2018-01-12) Microsoft OneNote for Mac: (installed 2018-01-12) Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac: (installed 2018-01-12) Microsoft Outlook for Mac: (installed 2018-01-12)

Drobo Dashboard: (installed 2018-01-12)
Drobo Dashboard: (installed 2018-01-12)
Microsoft Excel for Mac: (installed 2018-01-18) Microsoft Word for Mac: (installed 2018-01-18) Microsoft OneNote for Mac: (installed 2018-01-18) Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac: (installed 2018-01-18) Microsoft Outlook for Mac: (installed 2018-01-18) Microsoft AutoUpdate: (installed 2018-01-23) Synology Drive: (installed 2018-01-25)

Install information may not be complete.

Diagnostics Events (last 3 days for minor events): i 2018-01-26 11:41:33 Last shutdown cause: 3 - Hard shutdown

(End EtreCheck output)

I think the problem is memory management. I am a PhD student in Engineering and using Matlab for my computational modeling. The freezing problem happens for me just when I use Matlab and engage Memory and CPU together with high load. I am still on 10.13.2 version and did not upgrade to 10.13.3.

The config of my system is MBP (13", Early 2015), 2.7GHz Core i5, 8GB DDR3 memory and Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB

It's possible if you wipe the drive then clone back over the newly formatted drive that would give you same results as manually importing and doing setup on the newly formatted drive. This wouldn't take a lot of time and is worth a shot.

I think IMHO for some computers the process of upgrading to APFS with data fails to cleanly update.

Some good news, maybe. Can't be entirely sure because my system freezes momentarily at random moments when I open one particularly well-populated folder. I rebooted into standalone mode then rebooted normally and have not experienced my problem since then. So, I give this solution a cautious "woohoo"!

10.13.1 Beta (17B35a)

Works way better for me.

It seems to be fixed.

Let's pray (installed it at lunch - but I didn't work much today on my mac)

I think you could try a fresh install. But it is hard to tell what's causing that.

I have the GeForce 650M and it is not listed as supported...

Have you looked at live memory allocation ?

Used any tools like console or activity monitor to dive into the matter?

I was thinking of doing a fresh install with a High Sierra USB stick and a fresh APFS partition. Will need to reserve some time to do that as rebuilding a development workstation is A LOT of work.

I've been having the exact same problem since upgrading. Just happened twice in a row when I was in the middle of writing a document and switched to Spotify. Music kept playing, but everything else is unresponsive. Nightmare.

The same. About once a day my Macbook Pro 15 Late 2013 just stops working. The cursor is spinning circle, but can't click on anything. Cannot start Activity Monitor or something. Once I tried to wait but after half an hour nothing happened. Need to push the power button and shut it down.

I have Parallels Desktop 11, but it happens even if no virtual machine is running and if Parallels does not run.

Please fix it, I need to work 😉