mojave install macbook pro slow and no internet

Clearly I'm not alone! Installed last night by upgrading the previous clean install of High Sierra, which ran lightning fast and flawlessly.

On boot up it now runs horrifically slow, plus it had weirdly large icons on the login screen like it had set the wrong screen resolution on my 2015 Retina MacBook Pro (16GB RAM and 1TB Apple SSD with super fast read/write speeds >1,300MB/s). It takes over 5 minutes from power up to loading the desktop, even if you kill all running apps, remove pretty much everything from your Login items in Preferences and reboot! Screen resolution returns to normal at desktop screen but many apps not responding and having to do force quit (even OS X System apps).

Safari runs and machine establishes WiFi connection (which FYI works fine on all other devices) but it fails to load any webpage, saying not connected to the internet. Had some pages load successfully for web servers on local LAN (using direct IP Address) so it acted like it was a DNS problem, but the settings were correct/same as before (and same as all the working devices on same WiFi) and was nothing I could do to get it to work. Mail also unable to establish a connection to any of the already configured accounts. Something very strange going on!

After wasting another half hour trying all the obvious fixes I gave up and reinstalled High Sierra from my TimeMachine back up. Now all fine again. Clearly this first public release of Mojave needs a great deal more beta testing. Come on Apple, sort it out!

Same basic story here. 15 minutes to boot, dead wifi, 30-40 seconds to open a prefs pane, unable to turn on wifi. Three hours with two different Apple support people. Advised to wipe whole ssd and restore from backup, but that didn't work as system would cycle from login screen to black with progress bar to grey. Now going back to High Sierra. Wasn't ever intending to beta test for Apple. A day wasted, and it looks like I'm not alone. 2016 MacBook Pro, Mac user since 1988, and generally patient. Not today.

For me it seem to slow down extremely badly for no apparent reasons today.

It was extremely slow the first few days after update. Then it seem to run fine for a few days. But its extremely slow again today.

There's nothing eating resources in Activity Monitor. Just a bunch of apps that are not responding. But if you wait long enough, probably 1 - 5mins, they'll start running one by one.

Ver weird and inconsistent behavior. I plan to backup everything and do a clean install. This is a late 2012 iMac I'm running anyway. About time to do a clean install.

I am having the same exact problems with a new iMac. I would urge people not to install this for a while.

I have the 1TB MacBook Pro and have the dame issues. Don’t install Mojave! Had to revert to a high Sierra back-up, took me ages..

Same on mid 2015 MBP 15" quad 2.5 i7 - 16gb Ram & OWC Aura Pro X SSD Upgrade .. Recovery & back to Time Machine for me. It's on fire again on High Sierra.

Going to wait and see what happens.

I had some teething probs in High Sierra - not on the 2015 MBP; but on an old early 2011 MBP 2.3 dual core i5

I like the look of Mojave . . would be nice to see it run.

#MeToo! I cut every corner twice. Tried to upgrade on day one, didn’t update Time Machine from the last time I plugged in my external drive in and didn’t make sure I had a rescue flash drivethat worked. Mid 2012 MacBook Pro with plenty of ram and disk space.

The ”upgrade“ took over an hour and then it went downhill from there. Everything is super slow, like click and wait minutes for anything to happen and Wifi says “no hardware installed“. I can get into network preferences and it says Wifi is off, but clicking Turn On does nothing. I can’t install High Sierra over Mojave because it says there’s a newer OS installed. Now I’m faced with restoring a 3 month old backup. My bad...

I don't know if you can PM on here. I would happily help you out. I have deep enough experience in anything from rebuilds to working with most osx versions over last 10 years odd. I am very Linux too ..

Hello friend thanks for the advice... The firmware is fine.. It ran perfectly out the box with the SSD firmware. My version on the drive is higher than the updates online as new drive last time I checked. Will re-check. The firmware links you posted are not for my drive but thanks. I need to check OWC forums too I guess.

I prurchased the OWC drive as in their advertising the tag line was, "fully future-proofed with Mac OSX for the foreseeable future":

Guaranteed incompatibility? ... is this a spelling error on OWC's webpage ?

That should say incompatibility lol .. .anyway .. sarcasm aside I do not mind waiting a little while to see this ironed out as I run Universal Audio Digital Studio Audio Soundcards to studio gear which are notoriously slow to update. Funnily enough I swapped to UAD from Mac's in house APOGEE soundcards - was using a Duet for a while, but swapped as the software updates for the Duet were not coming fast enough, negating me being able to use new operating system updates..

The OS ran fine in High Sierra, which is allegedly the same OS File system so shouldn't be an issue. It's something more fundamental .. I suspect it could be in the graphics processing as it behaved like a full Kernel error breakdown .. everything going into a general disintegration graphics and usability wise. No cursor response. Having to relaunch finder every twenty seconds to get the cursor to unfreeze. No Audio or attempt for it to connect to the UAD without massive lag and the UAD interface falling over and freezing .. constant killing process' in Task Manager.. No internet at all .. Nothing in net stat in CMD line and nothing in "ifconfig". It was a proper mess. The fact the whole network is missing suggests this is not quite finished.

I am racking my brains to imagine what other softs may have caused problems ?

This is a little reminiscent of Apple breaking FaceTime on the 4 - 4S but I am hoping it's just iron outs not a full rinse out .. The UAD updates only just became truly stable for High Sierra in my case and at first I had issue with AFPS and high Sierra on the 15" 2015 map, however that did settle with updates..

As I said I do not mind waiting and it could be in my case UAD compatibility ...

Other things I would be interested to know from people on this thread !!!! >>>>>>>

Are we are running little Snitch or Metakine hands off ?? Could this be an incompatibility there.

Are we running Onyx ? (optimisation tool) - there is a separate version for Mojave..

Are we running any UAD with outboard DAC and processing through thunderbolt ?

Could it be a HDMI graphics input / output problem?

There has to be some connection here! 🙂

Good luck people.. I would happily post anyone a pen drive as long as that isn't against any licensing issue ? maybe someone can answer that ? .. Before Apple decided to rewrite it's filesystem I wisely made a few pen drives just in case 😉 for my own recovery purposes anticipating the upgrade may not reflect the ADs at Apple and Other Work Computing ! Karma Lama says baa.

HEYA !!

Thanks for the firmware advice.. however...

The OWC Aura Pro X does not have a. firmware updater for my model of Mac .. they stopped the updates well before the 11.4 MBP ..

The integration of the drive in question is meant to be flawless and that is how they are advertised !! Hence no firmware updater.. These drives are advertised as not needing any firmware revisions - any adaptations, trim enablers etc .. smart adapters.. The whole point of the drives is meant to be their flawless compatibility 🙂

As to your questions it is No to all of them. I have three external USB-harddrives connected, a USB-hub and a card reader. None of which caused any problems when I updated from Sierra to High Sierra.

Of course yes.

The suggestions I am getting here (although I appreciate the input efforts are so far off I could even say they are trolling 🙂

so far it has been suggested I do a firmware update on a drive that has no firmware updater for my model of Mac .. and connect the battery

I have also been told by Apple support ir was "background" processing after install and perfectly normal

I have not had one Apple person apologise, just pick up on the fact that I am happy to wait for updates and call me awesome for being patient .. Fact is I have no choice being patient.. I am epileptic and stress goes me seizes .. so why would I get stressed about a piece of metal lol !!

Thanks for everyones help... I will let people know if I get any answers.. OWC support have no answers either yet.

I have to say (politely) you all need to stop giving out bad advice...

Firstly I am the man with the SSD in Question earlier in the thread..

Secondly .. Patching and Aura Pro X with and Auru pro patch is not going to work as they are different drives.

The problem is with software licences not the drive. That issue you are referring to is not specific to the Pro X.

There is no Patcher for a Pro X ..

Thanks .. hope that clears it up for anyone about to try and patch the wrong drive due to Chinese whispers

😉

You cannot categorically (yet) Patch and Aura Pro X

Advising people to patch / rewrite firmware to drives in error is very bad advice .. you need to watch that ..

We are all here to help each other are we not ?

Just to chime in, I have an Early 2016 MacBook that runs fine on High Sierra, but Mojave install:

1) take over an hour

2) Boot up after install is extremely slow

3) Navigating UI after boot is excruciatingly slow

4) I get the "WiFi: No Hardware found" issue

I have reset NVRAM, SMC & have run Apple Diagnostic Tool, which finds no issues. If I roll back to High Sierra, everything works just fine. I have tried to install Mojave 3 times now, but will not attempt it again unless I can get some kind of assurance that I won't be wasting yet more hours only to get a non-functioning machine.

This is way too technical for me. Why is there a push to install Mojave if it clearly is not ready? The App Store said it was compatible with my MacBook Pro, but once installed the whole system (especially anything to do with “finder”, and that’s about everything,) took ages and ages...