After upgrading to Mojave, my top menu bar stopped working. If I click on it using any program, it always reverts to Finder's menu, and even then the menu simply doesn't respond. Even the "Apple menu icon" doesn't respond. I had to configure a special key in keyboard setup to access the menu.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Mojave (10.14), 16 GB
Try Relaunch the Menu Bar from the Terminal.app copy & paste:
killall -KILL SystemUIServer
If that does not sort it —
To trouble shoot further you can:
Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches, dynamic loader cache, etc. get cleared and rebuilt.
This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
Test issue in another user (or guest user) account https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
Try Relaunch the Menu Bar from the Terminal.app copy & paste:
killall -KILL SystemUIServer
If that does not sort it —
To trouble shoot further you can:
Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches, dynamic loader cache, etc. get cleared and rebuilt.
This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
Test issue in another user (or guest user) account https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
Thanks!
I had done a complete shutdown a couple of times, and nothing worked. Now just logging off and on again seemed to have fixed it.
I think I figured out the problem, but not the cause or fix:
- Login to my account. The menu works fine;
- Open Safari and make it fullscreen;
- Swipe left, back to desktop;
- Swipe right, back to Safari;
- Return Safari to windowed mode;
- Close Safari.
After that, the menu bar stops working. In my system, this works with any program, after I use fullscreen mode.
mauro_nacif wrote:
I think I figured out the problem, but not the cause or fix:
- Login to my account. The menu works fine;
- Open Safari and make it fullscreen;
- Swipe left, back to desktop;
- Swipe right, back to Safari;
- Return Safari to windowed mode;
- Close Safari.
After that, the menu bar stops working. In my system, this works with any program, after I use fullscreen mode.
Apple Feedback http://www.apple.com/feedback
With your same Apple ID you can sign up for a free Developers Account and start a conversation with Apple engineers
Bug Reporter https://bugreport.apple.com/
menu bar not working in Mojave
