MacBook Pro keeps rebooting after Mojave install

Hi,


Yesterday I upgraded my MacBook Pro mid 2012 from High Sierra to Mojave. The installation took quite a while but went fine. After the install my macbook restarted. It went straight to my desktop and opened the new App Store and an introduction window. After a few seconds my screen turns white and mouse is in top left corner. Then desktop restarts -> App Store -> introduction window -> white screen. This cycle repeats and doesn't stop. I tried booting in safe mode but it still happens. Also I tried reinstalling the OS but that didn't work. Anyone know how to fix this?


Thanks

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), macOS Mojave (10.14)

Posted on Sep 26, 2018 2:28 AM

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Oct 3, 2018 4:10 PM in response to kubowler99

I’m starting to wonder if it’s a heat/cpu issue caused by the upgrade. After trying to fix it for about 20-30 minutes, I noticed the MAC was getting fairly hot along the bottom and the fans were going crazy. I shut it down and set the Mac on top of a floor vent while the AC was on. Cooled it off fairly quick and I was then able to start it up and work for about 15 minutes before it started crashing again. I’m hoping I can boot to recovery mode and reinstall later today.

Jan 7, 2019 6:07 AM in response to Tpeets95

Hi all, I'm sorry to tell you that I've been trying all those and many more during months with no success. I've been able to change the way that the reboots happen but they're still there! For example, now my Mohave is stable for hours but if I try to reboot or switch off/on it's again a nightmare, it keeps rebooting and luckily in one of them it gets through. After all my research I'm almost sure that it's a graphic problem and so nothing we can do if devs do nothing. Now, I'm strongly considering to go back to previous osx. Thank you for all your posts and good luck.


Feb 1, 2019 1:50 AM in response to jaar71

I have a MacBook air 2013, reboots after logged in. Can't do anything, can't stop any background apps..


So I went ahead to install fresh Mojave, by restarting and hold Option+Cmd+R. Activated Internet recovery.. Deleted all partitions, created new. Took more than a night to install fresh.


Same reboot issue after created account and logged on. So I confirmed that this is not about incompatibility with old softwares.


Went to safe boot, press and hold Shift and restarted. It rebooted after logged in again..


My conclusion, OS issues with my hardware.


Now I am looking ways to reinstall Mountain Lion (DVD) or High Sierra..

Feb 1, 2019 3:53 AM in response to jeuda

It managed to boot in successfully without rebooting..


Here is the error report:

Anonymous UUID: 488227BA-115A-4CDE-67CB-5B3E1DA34BA3


Thu Jan 31 13:10:56 2019


*** Panic Report ***

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8000401e33): "a freed zone element has been modified in zone ipc kmsgs: expected 0xdeadbeefdeadbeef but found 0x80adbeefdeadbeef, bits changed 0x5e00000000000000, at offset 104 of 256 in element 0xffffff801777d600, cookies 0x3f001130e1f97f3a 0x535212c1226e36b"@/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-4903.241.1/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:1168

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff910c04b6d0 : 0xffffff80003aeb0d

0xffffff910c04b720 : 0xffffff80004e8653

0xffffff910c04b760 : 0xffffff80004da07a

0xffffff910c04b7d0 : 0xffffff800035bca0

0xffffff910c04b7f0 : 0xffffff80003ae527

0xffffff910c04b910 : 0xffffff80003ae373

0xffffff910c04b980 : 0xffffff8000401e33

0xffffff910c04bad0 : 0xffffff800038d94b

0xffffff910c04bb00 : 0xffffff80003b4353

0xffffff910c04bb50 : 0xffffff800038ebe5

0xffffff910c04bbd0 : 0xffffff80003b4b18

0xffffff910c04bc10 : 0xffffff800039a117

0xffffff910c04bc90 : 0xffffff800039d1ac

0xffffff910c04bcf0 : 0xffffff80003da347

0xffffff910c04bd30 : 0xffffff80008b837c

0xffffff910c04bda0 : 0xffffff80008d375f

0xffffff910c04be20 : 0xffffff80008d3bc7

0xffffff910c04be70 : 0xffffff80003a6a03

0xffffff910c04bec0 : 0xffffff800035bc6c


BSD process name corresponding to current thread: CVMCompiler

Boot args: -x


Mac OS version:

18D42


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