Mac Os Mojave freezes

Everything just progressively becomes unresponsive and all the windows start beachballing... mouse moves, windows move, but their content is stuck. If I have terminal open, and type "top", I see more and more apps in a "stuck" state.

I can't seem to get the machine out of that state and after a while, only a long power button press helps.

This is bad.

(Mac Pro 5,1)

This article could be worth a look:

https://eclecticlight.co/2017/06/15/something-odd-you-cant-fix-sierra-re-introdu ces-repairing-permissions/

I used the steps there to rebuild permissions on both my home folder, and the root volume. For the home folder, you're just using a Finder function. For the root volume, it's a line in Terminal.

This is theoretically not necessary if SIP (System Integrity Protection) is enabled, which it is by default; you have to boot to recovery and run a line in Terminal there to turn it off. Some third-party utilities need SIP toggled or deactivated to install or run, including TotalSpaces and TotalFinder, and quite a few others. And in any case, rebuilding permissions might be of value to you, here.

When I disabled Spotlight on the Mini I've been having trouble with, it didn't eliminate the system hangs. It just reduced their frequency of occurrence. I'm casting a suspicious eye on the mix of fusion drive, background defragmenting, and general file I/O error handling, in my case. Unfortunately there's precisely nothing I can do about any of that.

I upgraded an 27” iMac 2015 a week ago from High Sierra to Mojave and it started to stop responding at mouse clicks, sometimes an app at a time, sometimes with a general beach ball, sometimes corrupting audio output and then freezing. At first, I thought it was a disk error, as I discovered the Console was filling up with THOUSANDS of input/output errors, but Disk Utility’s SOS didn’t show anything relevant:

I disabled Spotlight on a Google File Stream mapped folder and the errors stopped, but the system kept completely freezing. Sometimes it was necessary to hard restart more than twice a day. This never happened on High Sierra!

Restored to last backup before Mojave this morning, let’s see how it behaves. I think I’ll wait until next Mojave’s version to give it another try.

You were rather curt when I replied to your exact same recommendation two weeks ago in this very thread, but risking your deep disapproval yet again, I will say once more that while Etresoft is often very very helpful in diagnosing issues with configuration, third party apps, usage, etc, it is not helpful at all when it comes to OS bugs (which time has proved this most certainly is) as Etresoft presumes the OS is working just fine and something else is to blame for destabilizing the system. The solution to this thread will come when Apple releases an update. Until then the best this thread can provide are workarounds.

It is Mojave, I've tested it is not third party software... I've been having this issues on any computer I've upgraded to Mojave... on one of them the one thing I am using is xcode and it freezes launching the iOS simulator or compiling... And we are talking about a trash can: 8 cores, 32GB 1 TB flash memory... Frozen and unresponsive just compiling.

While many (most?) of us may be experiencing the effects of the same root problem it may not affect everyone the same way. I allowed Spotlight to begin indexing my Macintosh HD this afternoon after updating to 10.14.1 and I will report back tomorrow and let you know what I find. You may want to do the same. Worst case, you will just need to force reboot and disable indexing again.

I've upgraded to macos 10.14.1 and so far seems stable... I did forced spotlight to recreate the index (and it has been a few days and it continues doing it... the fan constantly goes on)

I tried removing everything from spotlight as stated before, but in my particular case, didn't fix the issue, it just made it less frequent.

I haven't gone through all of the replies yet, so this may have already been discussed...

I posted about a similar issue, but one important thing to note is it only seems to affect the native Mac apps, specifically Mail, Calendar, Messages, Notes, and Safari. I will periodically (every day or two) have all of these apps lock up in a cascade of failure. Killing and restarting them only seems to make things worse, and the only "solution" appears to be restarting the Mac. This was happening during Beta, and I reported it, and has been happening with the GA releases.

For the issue I've noticed- other apps like Microsoft Office and Google Chrome appear to be completely unaffected. Checking Activity Monitor shows nothing using excessive resources, yet I get the spinning pinwheel of death on all fo the native apps (eventually).

My Mac is going through this right now, yet still has over half of its memory free, and again- nothing is using excessive resources.

The only thing I noticed when the problem started this time is TimeMachine was running, but it's been finished for ten minutes now, and my native apps are still locked up.

I just did a fresh install of 10.14.1 on my MBP 15" 2018 and it did the freezing thing just now - hard reboot cleared it for now. When the freezes happen the system clock pauses for about 5 seconds and then catches up when the freeze clears. Playing music is uninterrupted, just the UI is unresponsive for those few seconds. It is a UI bug - something is causing the window system to freeze - some non-blocking interrupt is my guess.

I have had this problem since upgrading to Mojave when it first came out. After a restart, the problem generally took 1 to 2 days to materialize. Five days ago I updated to the 10.14.3 beta. Since then the problem has not recurred! It seems like Apple has finally fixed the problem. Keeping my fingers crossed. I have a 2018 MacBook Pro.

dont know exactly whats causing it but do know when i turn spotlight off i dont have the issue anymore.

unfortunately turning off spotlight completely cripples any search capability globally. when im in outlook i cannot search my mail at all. finder searching doesnt work.

even with indexing turned off in windows i can still search for anything i want ....

ridiculous ....

Hello Colddiamode,

Thank you for submitting your question to Apple Support Communities! I am more than happy to help you with your 2014 MacBook! I have a few questions for you before I can start helping you with your issue.

Another question is, have you tried force restarting it? To do this, hold the power button until the device turns off. Then turn on the Mac.

My final question is, what steps have you taken to resolve this issue on your own?

Thank you so much for letting me help you today Colddiamond!

file browsing, loading folder and file metadata and normal copy/paste activities to/from a server such as a NAS should not be supplemented with 3rd party software on a computer.

its just a caveat that macOS has poor performance in this regard when compared with other competing platforms.

I have the OS Mojave freezing issue. It does happen almost every day, more often when waking the machine (single most common way to make my machine freeze) or adjusting a setting by clicking an icon in the top menu bar (wireless is the 2nd most common causes for this freeze). Usually I am able to wait it out and the machine comes back to life within 1-3 minutes. Typically I see one app freezing while others remain active but if I click around a bit within seconds the whole desktop is unresponsive. I keep activity monitor running and don't see a common culprit frequently hogging memory, process or disk... I have found that swiping to the right to my next desktop seems to free up the process, but I have also seen this not work enough that I file this away as anecdotal information and only mention it to see if someone else finds anything similar.

(early 2015 MBP 13", 8GB, 2.7 i5)

i have a late 2013 mbp, to date this is happening daily. i don't have any clouds synced with my login account on my macOS account.

at this point, i am going to downgrade my system to high sierra. getting fed up with this sh** and i'm not going to wait for apple to get their heads out of their you know what.