Mac Os Mojave freezes

regarding 3rd parties in general, shortly after i picked up my mbp from the apple store (with a fresh slate restored ssd, running mojave) .... i encountered the beachball of death with no additional software installed.

so my thoughts are that 3rd party apps are not the source of my issue. otherwise, id expect to have more frequent issues when i use those apps.

this discussion is much like the placebo effect, with everyone trying different things and believing the problem was eradicated by the action.

still running without icloud integrations and signed out of icloud on the mbp.

that reminds me of my days back when i used android - no syncing to common apps on the computer.

if it is indeed an icloud bug in the os, why hasn’t it been widespread and far reaching, that’s another question i wonder about.

your guess is as good as mine @ this point.

just because bt5 supersedes bt4, people with bt4 hardware shouldnt be left in the cold with something that broke during the transition.

following that logic, seems there are leftovers/artifacts that should have been cleaned up, on the software end - as apple evolved things.

sounds like im off on a tangent, though it shouldnt be the users headache to deal with issues that break after changes.

part of the apple experience, i guess.

Hi I'm Using the MacBook pro early 2015 and faced exactly the same issue.This started after MacOS update from 10.14.1 to 10.14.4

My trackpad and key board stop working ,the entire screen freezes and stops working.

I tried a hard reset of the VRAm but still the keyboard and the mouse would not work.

So i got a wireless mouse and a wired usb keyboard and on start up used them to get into recovery mode and used the TIME MACHINE backup to rest the system and viola everything started working.

updated my OS again and again had exactly the same problem but this time the mouse and keyboard were working for some time but the system started freezing and became totally unresponsive, even though the cursor was moving.

So i have again Gone back to the previous update using TIME Machine backup and everything if fine .Been using the system now for three days without a hitch.

Something in my system and the new update are not compatible ...i guess.

i was able to restore the macOS partition from my tm backup, it seems things are running good so far.

following that, i ran du on my macOS installation, as well running some of the tests in tech tool pro to make sure the volumes check out ok.

i will try to get around to doing the tech tool pro surface scan (bad blocks), once i am able to create a startup usb for it.

i would say that the ssd has not failed .....

you hopefully wont have to live without spotlight for long .... i did not see improvement with beach balls of death on my mbp after disabling spotlight.

in my case i did notice that leaving iTunes (or the new Music app in my case) open overnight, while connected to my media library - which resides on an SMB share - results in bb of death after waking the computer in the mornings. perhaps my issue is related to intermittent SMB connectivity, or perhaps it's related to the iTunes (Music) app. it's a problem that's been around for a while and not quite always happening with this particular app running.

but shutting down the iTunes (or Music) app at night, then waking computer in the mornings no longer gives me bb of death. strange, because the SMB share is always mounted in macOS

tough to figure out in my case because i cannot get the computer to generate a crash report upon restart after the issue occurs.

Mine seems to have a problem with chrome and vscode (but maybe with every other software since I mostly use these two)

Same here.

Call this crap MojaVISTA...

YES!!!!

another one today ....

this time, computer was fine, i shut the lid and when i opened it again, screen was black with only mouse pointer. then it turned to a beachball