[SOLVED] macOS High Sierra UI all of a sudden extremely sluggish, log full of errors

[amadeusp81]

Hi everyone

Up until yesterday I was a super happy owner of a perfectly functioning Hackintosh. My detailed build description can be found here:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/success-z170x-ud5-th-i7-6700k-evga-gtx-980-sc-32gb-ddr4.201063/

Since I got myself a Thunderbolt based audio interface I updated my machine last week:
As detailed in my "Update 26" (on my build page), I updated the BIOS from F5 to F21 and successfully activated Thunderbolt. So far, so good.

But here’s what happened next:
My machine started to become noticeably sluggish. Changing tabs in Safari for instance started to sometimes take seconds, even scrolling or opening a new tab started to hang here and there for seconds. Especially little UI animations such as expanding input fields etc. feel super slow now. Changing the size of application windows for example sometimes takes seconds for the UI to redraw.

After performing all the usual measures (observing Activity Monitor, checking the hard disks etc.), I started to dig into Console.app. There I noticed an awful lot of errors, such as:

fault	22:49:40.960216 +0100	AddressBookSourceSync	638	Update of Me card on server failed with error: <private>	plugin	CardDAVPlugin	com.apple.contacts.carddav

error	22:50:11.909432 +0100	com.apple.CloudDocs.MobileDocumentsFileProvider	651	[ERROR] there was an error when listing items: <private>	default	com.apple.CloudDocs.MobileDocumentsFileProvider	com.apple.clouddocs

error	22:50:11.909693 +0100	fileproviderd	428	[ERROR] no change token returned for com.apple.CloudDocs.MobileDocumentsFileProvider: Error Domain=BRCloudDocsErrorDomain Code=14 "Item not found: '<doc-id 15a3>'" UserInfo={NSDescription=Item not found: '<doc-id 15a3>'}
 on url: /Users/amadeus/Library/Mobile Documents/27N4MQEA55~pro~writer/Documents/fault	22-49-40.960216 +0100	AddressBookSourceSync	638	Update of.txt	default	fileproviderd	com.apple.FileProvider

error	22:50:53.136468 +0100	Safari	655	AssertMacros: 0 (value = 0x0),  file: /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/BiometricKit/BiometricKit-67/BiometricKit/BiometricKitXPCClient.m, line: 75		BiometricKit

fault	22:51:29.161884 +0100	com.apple.Safari.History	364	Unhandled SQLite error: Error Domain=com.apple.Safari.SQLite Code=19 "constraint failed"	SQLite	SafariCore	com.apple.SafariShared

fault	22:51:29.749171 +0100	cfprefsd	117	rejecting read of { kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, kCFPreferencesAnyUser, kCFPreferencesCurrentHost, no container, managed: 0 } from process 680 because accessing preferences outside an application's container requires user-preference-read or file-read-data sandbox access	User Defaults Daemon	CoreFoundation	com.apple.cfprefsd

fault	22:51:52.553010 +0100	locationd	95	Couldn't find a requirement string for masquerading client com.apple.autotimezone	Generic	locationd	com.apple.locationd.Legacy

fault	22:52:24.210310 +0100	iconservicesd	75	Failed to move temp file <private> to <private> with error: <private>	default	iconservicesd	com.apple.iconservices

fault	22:52:55.897067 +0100	cfprefsd	117	rejecting read of { kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, kCFPreferencesAnyUser, kCFPreferencesCurrentHost, no container, managed: 0 } from process 712 because accessing preferences outside an application's container requires user-preference-read or file-read-data sandbox access	User Defaults Daemon	CoreFoundation	com.apple.cfprefsd

error	22:52:55.897179 +0100	MTLCompilerService	712	Couldn't read values in CFPrefsPlistSource<0x60c0000e3100> (Domain: kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, User: kCFPreferencesAnyUser, ByHost: Yes, Container: (null), Contents Need Refresh: Yes): accessing preferences outside an application's container requires user-preference-read or file-read-data sandbox access, detaching from cfprefsd	User Defaults	CoreFoundation	com.apple.defaults

I googled the heck out of each one of those errors, but couldn’t find out what potentially could be the main cause for my issues.

I also cleared all the caches and rebuilt the prelinked kernel on my actual boot disk, but had no luck with that either.

"fsck -f" tells me that my disk is fine.

I do not have trimforce enabled btw.

Does anyone have an idea of what might be going on here?

Many thanks to all of you in advance for your help!

Best

Amadeus

 

[amadeusp81]

Today I continued to investigate my slowdown issues. Along the path I did the following:
1. Read many posts all over the internet of people who seem to have running F20 and F21 installations on the same or similar Gigabyte boards, compared their settings with mine, deactivated/activated at least 20 Clover and/or BIOS settings with no luck.
2. Downloaded and installed RehabMan’s latest FakeSMC-2017-1017 into /EFI/CLOVER/.
3. Re did SSDT with Piker-Alpha’s latest ssdtPRGen.sh v21.5.
4. Updated Clover to 4411 and changed from OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi to OsxAptioFix3Drv-64.efi.
5. Reseted CMOS of BIOS and re configured all the settings according to my build page.

Unfortunately I am still in the same place. The last thing I could try is to revert the BIOS to F5. But actually I would rather like to stay on F21.

Does anybody have a clue of what might be going on here?

 

[amadeusp81]

I found out what the real problem was. I was looking in all the wrong places. Since I just made a BIOS update I thought that the problem must reside there, but it actually was the NVIDIA Web Driver 387.10.10.10.25.156!

I now downgraded to a patched 378.10.10.10.25.103 and everything is back to normal.

 

[carman1tr]

So how do you patched 378.10.10.10.25.103?

I have the same problem. My Mac is soooooooo poor on performance. Especially after 10.13.3 update.

So please tell me how to patch it.

 

[vince026]

I found out what the real problem was. I was looking in all the wrong places. Since I just made a BIOS update I thought that the problem must reside there, but it actually was the NVIDIA Web Driver 387.10.10.10.25.156!

I now downgraded to a patched 378.10.10.10.25.103 and everything is back to normal.

Could you share some information on how you did this? I'm experiencing the exact same symptoms. High end system that always worked perfectly but feels sluggish like hell all of a sudden.

 

[amadeusp81]

Hey @vince026 and @carman1rt, here's what I did:
1. I added Lilu.kext (https://www.tonymacx86.com/resources/lilu.362/) to /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other/
2. changed SIP in Clover Configurator (CsrActiveConfig) to 0x67
3. rebooted
4. used vulgo’s awesome webdriver.sh (https://github.com/vulgo/webdriver.sh) to install NVIDIA Web Driver 378.10.10.10.25.103

sudo sh webdriver.sh -cu https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/378/WebDriver-378.10.10.10.25.103.pkg
sudo sh webdriver.sh -m

5. changed SIP in Clover Configurator (CsrActiveConfig) back to to 0x3
6. rebooted

I hope this helps!

Good luck!

 

[vince026]

Hey @vince026 and @carman1rt, here's what I did:
1. I added Lilu.kext (https://www.tonymacx86.com/resources/lilu.362/) to /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other/
2. changed SIP in Clover Configurator (CsrActiveConfig) to 0x67
3. rebooted
4. used vulgo’s awesome webdriver.sh (https://github.com/vulgo/webdriver.sh) to install NVIDIA Web Driver 378.10.10.10.25.103

sudo sh webdriver.sh -cu https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/378/WebDriver-378.10.10.10.25.103.pkg
sudo sh webdriver.sh -m

5. changed SIP in Clover Configurator (CsrActiveConfig) back to to 0x3
6. rebooted

I hope this helps!

Good luck!

Thank you kind sir, that did the trick!

 

[jojomosgo]

You are da man! Thanks, you made my Skylake machine usable.
GA-Z170X-UD5 / i7 6700K / GeForce GTX 1070 WindForce

 

[jojomosgo]

did you get USB 3 to work? It shows up in my System Report, but I cannot get the rear panel USB 3 or 3.1 ports to work.

 

[amadeusp81]

did you get USB 3 to work? It shows up in my System Report, but I cannot get the rear panel USB 3 or 3.1 ports to work.

I made a custom SSDT mapping all my ports accordingly and yes, they work perfectly fine in my case. I am not in front of my machine atm but if you like, I can share the SSDT with you later.