Two MacBook pros down with the same issue.

[Factionrider]

Got a doozy on this one...

2016 MBP 15”
6700k
16gb ram
Rpro 455

Woke up with what appeared to be a stuck notification. Nothing works left click wise, some stuff will right click but go nowhere. Not even command option escape to relaunch finder works. However, guestures work perfectly. I can’t interact with anything but i can use multi touch guestures to move the UI around.

Reboot to safe mode, same thing.

Reset SMC and NVRAM. Same thing.

Reboot to internet recovery, crash at options screen.

Reboot to single user mode, nope.

Reboot to target disk mode and get thunderbolt/usb icons. Fantastic, at least I can pull the data off before it goes to the apple store.

Use girlfriends 2015, apple thunderbolt 2 cable and apple thunderbolt 2>3 adapter.

....

Now hers has the same symptoms.

What.

The.

****.

 

[slooksterPSV]

Have you tried going to the Notifications bar and clearing off all notifications? Also, what is the notification?

 

[Factionrider]

Tried that first thing, but I can't interact with any of the UI.

Both laptops now working as expected. Backing my data up at the moment.

No idea what fixed them. Not sure what to make of it.

 

[8SlaiN8]

try to see if something is messed up with permissions of libraries

 

[fokmik]

Tried that first thing, but I can't interact with any of the UI.

Both laptops now working as expected. Backing my data up at the moment.

No idea what fixed them. Not sure what to make of it.

so after what it fiexed it? you went to apple store? or hard shut down? or reinstall macOS?

 

[maflynn]

so after what it fiexed it? you went to apple store? or hard shut down? or reinstall macOS?

He doesn't know, I suspect that it was an OS glitch that fixed itself

No idea what fixed them. Not sure what to make of it.

 

[Factionrider]

He doesn't know, I suspect that it was an OS glitch that fixed itself

If I had to guess, I would say the CPUs both got stuck in a low power state. Both came from a low or dead battery just before the issues. Not sure why a PRAM/SMC reset didn’t fix it by 50% battery though.

 

[jerryk]

Are you guys running the same applications? Maybe one of those had a glitch.

 

[Factionrider]

Are you guys running the same applications? Maybe one of those had a glitch.

The only common software between the two is what is common to a fresh Mojave install with a fresh high Sierra install. Nothing 3rd party is on both, and if that was the case then safe mode should have worked for sure.