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Dombi Bence
Dombi Bence

Reputation: 788

Xcode 9.1 Simulator Crashes macOS System

I'm running macOS Sierra, but same experienced on High Sierra.

When I open the Simulator in Xcode 9.1, it doesn't load anything (sometimes a red screen), however crashes the whole system. I can move the mouse, but everything is unclickable.

Really rarely it receives clicks and I can open the Activity Monitor to shut it down. Restart doesn't help, because Simulator is reopened then, and crashes the whole system again.

Is there anyone out there experiencing the same issue? Any solutions, suggestions?

Could this relate to the fact that I have a Hackintosh?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 879

Answers (1)

russbishop
russbishop

Reputation: 17229

We can't provide support for pirate copies of macOS running on non-Apple hardware. I would encourage you to purchase authorized Apple hardware which comes with a legal copy of macOS.

Red is the canary texture indicating the GPU didn't write anything to the surface. It is probably a rendering failure due to graphics driver bugs. You can check the logs in cases where it doesn't fully restart and you may find GPU restarts are taking place. If the GPU restart fails then the system will panic and reboot.

Edit: As I previously indicated, you're running untested hardware on a hacked copy of macOS using unknown drivers. If you're using built-in drivers it may be a mis-match between the hardware they expect and the GPU you have. If you're using vendor-provided drivers it may be a simple bug. And when running any non-standard kernels or kernel extensions there could be a vast array of possible causes (bad kernel extension corrupting some data structure, etc)

Upvotes: 0

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