wow! Since updating to 18A371a this morning, my iMac has been a complete mess...
- Finder freezes about 10 minutes after the computer boots and is stuck on “not responding.” Forcing it to relaunch results in nothing. Finder disappears and does not come back.
- Firefox freezes after about 10 minutes and has to be force quit. Launching it again results in the icon bouncing for a while before giving up and again, not opening.
- Google Chrome opens but can’t load any webpages. Tabs just spin eternally before Chrome says that they aren’t responding and offers to let me “exit tab” which does nothing.
- Spotify is completely broken and loads a black screen upon starting. Force quitting it and trying to launch it again results in, again, a bouncing icon that eventually gives up and does not open.
I tried logging the iMac out, but apps "not responding" prevented this from ever working, so I forced powered it off. Powering it back on resulted in the same exact issues.
I know...I KNOW!! this is beta software, warranty is voided, etc etc. I'm not ranting, was just caught a little off-guard by how much broke in the latest update. it was buggy here and there before, but never this bad.
I'm just curious if anyone has experienced any similar issues?
my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) has 32 GB of RAM and a fast Intel processor, so it’s not a dinosaur. I wish I could tell you which Intel processor, but trying to launch “system information” results in the error message “The application “System Information” is not open anymore.” and clicking “about this Mac” the menu results in absolutely nothing.
I am trying to submit to Apple using feedback assistant, but it's been "collecting 2 diagnostic files" over almost 2 hours...
gotta love patch Tuesday!
[doublepost=1534876015][/doublepost]I am going to tentatively say that a THIRD reboot has fixed these issues, at least for now, though I'm not sure why it took that many times to get there. I'm guessing that all of those issues were caused by a single problem nested deep in the OS.
I'll leave the thread up just in case anyone else has been experiencing issues since the latest update.
[doublepost=1534877001][/doublepost]Update: about 20 minutes into the most recent reboot Finder has once again frozen. I'm not going to bother relaunching it because I already know what's going to happen. everything else is working.
Ah. Furthermore, anytime you go to open a file in an application, bringing open a file picker, this application also goes to hang and die.
makes no sense...
Update: since updating to 18A377a my iMac is all better.
- Finder freezes about 10 minutes after the computer boots and is stuck on “not responding.” Forcing it to relaunch results in nothing. Finder disappears and does not come back.
- Firefox freezes after about 10 minutes and has to be force quit. Launching it again results in the icon bouncing for a while before giving up and again, not opening.
- Google Chrome opens but can’t load any webpages. Tabs just spin eternally before Chrome says that they aren’t responding and offers to let me “exit tab” which does nothing.
- Spotify is completely broken and loads a black screen upon starting. Force quitting it and trying to launch it again results in, again, a bouncing icon that eventually gives up and does not open.
I tried logging the iMac out, but apps "not responding" prevented this from ever working, so I forced powered it off. Powering it back on resulted in the same exact issues.
I know...I KNOW!! this is beta software, warranty is voided, etc etc. I'm not ranting, was just caught a little off-guard by how much broke in the latest update. it was buggy here and there before, but never this bad.
I'm just curious if anyone has experienced any similar issues?
my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) has 32 GB of RAM and a fast Intel processor, so it’s not a dinosaur. I wish I could tell you which Intel processor, but trying to launch “system information” results in the error message “The application “System Information” is not open anymore.” and clicking “about this Mac” the menu results in absolutely nothing.
I am trying to submit to Apple using feedback assistant, but it's been "collecting 2 diagnostic files" over almost 2 hours...
gotta love patch Tuesday!
[doublepost=1534876015][/doublepost]I am going to tentatively say that a THIRD reboot has fixed these issues, at least for now, though I'm not sure why it took that many times to get there. I'm guessing that all of those issues were caused by a single problem nested deep in the OS.
I'll leave the thread up just in case anyone else has been experiencing issues since the latest update.
[doublepost=1534877001][/doublepost]Update: about 20 minutes into the most recent reboot Finder has once again frozen. I'm not going to bother relaunching it because I already know what's going to happen. everything else is working.
Ah. Furthermore, anytime you go to open a file in an application, bringing open a file picker, this application also goes to hang and die.
makes no sense...
Update: since updating to 18A377a my iMac is all better.
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