I have been on the developer betas since about 3 or 4 and not had too many issues. I'm on 6 now and the OS keeps locking up with beach ball.. Can seem to find what is causing it. Tried an SMC reset with no joy. The spaces gesture is no longer working either. On a 2015 rMBP. Any suggestions?
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Beta 6 Keeps Freezing
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I was seeing it a lot in Office 2016, removed that and reinstalled latest patched version and that seemed to sort my issues out
Yep I am getting lost constant beach balls. When the lockups occur kernel_task has almost constant high CPU usage and logs are filled with WindowServer errors.
This build is pretty much unusable for me.
This build is pretty much unusable for me.
Yes. For me the system followed this pattern:
1 minute usable
30 seconds unusable
1 minute usable
30 seconds not usable
Ad infinitum
Mine is nearly constant. Interestingly I reset SMC and it fixed it for a number of hours but after the computer woke after sleeping is started up again.
I'm also having this exact same issue, and have been since Beta 4. I've done some Console checking and noticed that whenever the crash/freeze happens, I get kernel[0]: disk2: I/O error.
Now, normally, this would instantly make me jump to an impending drive failure, however I've verified the SMART status and everything seems to be alright, as well as verifying the disk itself using Disk Utility, which has again come back fine.
I'm not sure what's causing this (I guess it could be an oncoming drive failure, at a push), but it seems interesting that this same issue's being reported by a number of people on the forum and it's unlikely that, if it's the same cause for all of us, that all of our drives are on the verge of failure!
For reference, I'm running the latest developer build on a Late 2014 Retina iMac.
I'm considering making the jump back to Yosemite, just out of curiosity and to verify whether I'm getting the same issue on there, but I'm reluctant to think it's anything other than a strange bug in El Capitan.
Now, normally, this would instantly make me jump to an impending drive failure, however I've verified the SMART status and everything seems to be alright, as well as verifying the disk itself using Disk Utility, which has again come back fine.
I'm not sure what's causing this (I guess it could be an oncoming drive failure, at a push), but it seems interesting that this same issue's being reported by a number of people on the forum and it's unlikely that, if it's the same cause for all of us, that all of our drives are on the verge of failure!
For reference, I'm running the latest developer build on a Late 2014 Retina iMac.
I'm considering making the jump back to Yosemite, just out of curiosity and to verify whether I'm getting the same issue on there, but I'm reluctant to think it's anything other than a strange bug in El Capitan.
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I was having this issue (retina MacBook 2015) and then I (i) reset PRAM and (ii) reset the SMC and things cleared up a lot. I was still getting the spinning beachball with some individual applications (e.g. evernote) — but I think that is an app-level issue. Cleared up with reinstalling and then rebuilding the notes database.
I had quite a lot of freezing as you've described with "Ambient Light Compensation" enabled in Display preferences. Seems much better since disabling it
Yep, just started getting this today too. This and a few other weird bugs make this probably the most irritating beta so far. Fingers crossed that it's cleared up in the next release!
This is coming up a lot. Try disabling "ambient light compensation" in System Preferences -> Displays
This pretty much got rid of the spinning beachballs for me. I was getting them a lot before.
For some reason I don't have that option in my Displays preferences, it's just not there.
Too early to tell, but ambient light compensation has been removed as an option so it seems like they "fixed" it
The screen flash of brightness which I usually saw after logging in has also gone.