Mac Os Mojave freezes

I’m experiencing the same issues as you are.

I have a MBP 13” Retina 2015 8GB. Whenever I open a few apps or do anything that demands more energy, it freezes.

If I don’t demand a lot of the Mac, it stays days without freezing, but now that I’m needing it to run more things, I can’t stop it from freezing. It simply freezes and I have to Hard shut it down. Sometimes it gives me a Kernel Panic, with no apparent reason.

I tried to reinstall the Mojave and it didn’t work, somehow it was freezing even more. Now I’m finishing the installation of th High Sierra, which is also based on AFPS, so if it’s a FS problem, it won’t help.

Let’s see how it goes

I hope it goes well with High Sierra. I have a MacBook Pro 2017. Apple has even replaced the motherboard in guarantee only to last for 3 weeks. I am puzzled as I had to bring back a MacBook Air 2013 from storage and works like a champ with Mojave. Slow but never a freeze. Wish I would have kept my 2015 Mac book pro. Since then my luck with the MacBook Pro has been terrible, keyboard, display, motherboard. Soon it will be time to update again and did not got the 2017 working. Maybe time to find an option.

DJDL7

Glad you found a solution for you. However, on my late 2016 iMac27, I have Radeon R9, not Nvidia driver. Panic kernel crashes often, despite uninstalling 10 major apps, only keeping MalwareBytes. Used EtreCheck, numerous Disk Utility repairs, etc. Will try uninstalling MalwareBytes next. Have tried ExCop's advice, disabling ALL drives in Spotlight, with some limited success, but still believe that this is a file system problem that has been created by APFS conversion.

Am still waiting for Alsoft's DiskWarrior update that will enable directory repair.

Yesterday on top of the freeze problem I realized that the two USBC Thunderbolt on the right side of the computer ceased to work. Apple has replaced the motherboard once early January. The symptoms this time were exactly the same as back then.

The report stated that the motherboard did not recognized the SSD drive. The machine passes the hardware diagnosis well. Will post more information as soon the service people contact me.

I also have an iMac Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015 that keeps beach balling on Mojave for no apparent reason. I tried to re-install the operating system with the same result. I am noticing that computer actually gets slower as the day progresses... So meaning.. if I try to open a dmg file hours after I booted my computer it might cause the beach ball. If I did the same thing right after boot the file would open instantly. I'm running the latest version of Mojave 10.14.3. My computer has a solid state drive but honestly at times it feels slower than my motored hd.

Well described. the same happened to my Macbook. However my computer is useless now as I get a freeze after just a couple of minutes from a restart. Note that the restarts are forced with the power button as the machine will not shut down trough commands.

Yes, I have to do the power button as well... Then I get the message when the computer boots up "Your Computer Restarted Because of A Problem".. This has been the most frustrating release =(.. I do hope its eventually fixed for everyone.

since i last posted i've had 1/2 dozen of these beachballs of death.

just a moment ago i decided to check for a software update (i'm on 10.14.4 pb 3), and saw that 14.4 pb 4 is available. decided to click the "more info..." link and the mouse remained as a pointing hand (i knew it was freezing again), then tried clicking safari in the dock, when it came up, the beachball remained frozen and could not be moved.

somewhat different than my previous freezes where i could move the beachball around until elements on the screen started disappearing (dock, windows, etc).

waiting on apple here to resolve this. have submitted at least 2 feedback assistant reports following my crash but don't know if they mean anything to apple since i wasn't prompted that i recovered from a crash.

which log in the console is the one that's reporting events every second - or fraction of - so that i can zoom in on what my computer was actually doing just prior to force restarting ?

I have the same issue.

High Sierra 10.13.3 was fine, but after that I upgraded to 10.13.6 and to 10.14.3 and both suck. It is a shame what apple is doing to us. I am a professional app developer and I am forced to upgrade, because Xcode requires 10.13.6+ but all versions have this issue. Shame on apple.

along with news that apple fixed the mbp screen issues of 2016,2017 models in the 2018 models and left those 2016,2017 owners out in the cold on such a pricey pricey laptop .... i dont have much confidence in apple quality anymore.

cannot expect them to care about this 18 page discussion thats been around for 5 months now.

pretty sad.

just had another pinwheel of death, this time it occurred around 20:08 (see the picture). I let it sit for some minutes before forcing a restart. when I restarted - the time was 20:16 @ moment of login. nothing was responsive, not command+option+esc, nor anything in the dock ...

if someone is knowledgable with this log, let me know so I can dig deeper.

the pinwheeling started after trying to do something in safari.

i keep asking ppl for stats, never get responses ... lol

are most ppl with the issue running light mode, dark mode ?

yesterday i had 3 freezes, while on light mode. but i sometimes switch to intermediate (using onyx), where status bar and dock are dark, but windows are light.

i also dont have discrete graphics

Well for some info... I never used dark mode ever.. I don't care for it. I have Night Shift active from Sunset to Sunrise... I also notice that I have hot corners enabled to shut off my display since I have an iMac and its in my Bedroom I move my mouse to the bottom of the screen to do this... Now with Mojave a lot of times when the screen comes back on its a spinning wheel of death or the computer is off lol & I have to press the power button... I feel like I'm using Windows which is sad =( I think Apple is focusing to much on changing the architecture from intel that they don't have enough staff working on Mojave =(.... Honestly though there going to loose me as a customer because I like being able to run windows on mac with bootcamp & I still don't see how that's going to happen if they switch to arm.

i too have night shift on. not sure if that is working correctly because its so subtle. have to check

i know im experiencing the problem many times after waking the screen but not immediately after.

regarding boot camp - the greatest invention to man since sliced bread imo ...

because i appreciate the dual boot capability, i wont be eyeballing any future mac computers that do not have intel or amd architecture. there is little value to the cost of the hardware if i am restricted to only macOS. also theres the driver updates for windows which apple is lagging behind on that.

its a possibility that my last mac hardware will be this 2013 mbp or a 2018 model if i find one at the right price for me. beyond that, ill be happy with the surface book which hasnt been fussy like macos has been.

been keeping my eye on those current issues they have. not willing to pay for apple care since i should not be paying for fixing defects in workmanship to begin with. apple has gotten plenty fat at the behest of poor folks shelling out money for rider warranties and issues that shouldnt be the customer’s problem.

usually with computer hardware, if its designed well and doesnt fail in the first month, it should be good for life (5-7 yrs

or longer) .... as far as the hardware is concerned.

accidental damage is another story.