Lightroom 2015.7+: Panels and filmstrip black when switching to Develop

This should now work correctly in Lightroom CC2015.10/6.10 or later on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later. Don't hesitate to let us know if you see the issue again on the current macOS, and if you do, what triggers it.  Please update your system and let us know if you have any additional issues. 


Additional information on this update can be found here: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/04/lightroom-cc-2015-10-now-available.html

Hi Steve,

As noted before, this is a bug introduced at the macOS level. Through collaboration with Apple, they have made a fix in the later version of the macOS update. So the right thing to do is to update to the more recent version of macOS when possible.

Having said that, Lr team have done our best to workaround this issue for the cases that we can reproduce for macOS 10.11.6. But there is a limit can Lr can do.

Hope you understand the situation.

Hi all,

As Simon and Jeff have already mentioned in this thread, please make sure your macOS is updated to at least macOS Sierra 10.12 and at least Lightroom Classic 7.0 or Lightroom 6.13.

The best combo to avoid this issue is being on macOS High Sierra 10.13 and Lightroom Classic 7.1 or Lightroom 6.13.

The team has worked pretty hard with Apple to get this issue to stop appearing with macOS Sierra 10.12 and macOS High Sierra 10.13. Improvements were made in 10.12 and iterated upon for 10.13.

If you are on macOS High Sierra 10.13 and Lightroom Classic 7.1 or Lightroom 6.13 and you still see this issue, please let us know here with a copy of the System Info from your Lightroom product (Help > System Info > Copy).

Thanks,
Melissa

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I'm not able to reproduce this issue. Have you tried restarting the computer after the update to Sierra? It may help if we could see your Lightroom System Info. Launch Lightroom, and select Help > System Info... and copy/paste the text in a reply.

I can reproduce it again and again. Here is the Help>system info.
Use graphics processor has been disabled as there was a conflict between Yosemite and my particular iMac's AMD video card with Lightroom.
I did restart, I will do so again. 
Not sure if I should reinstall Lightroom after the Sierra install, maybe if nothing else helps?

Lightroom version: CC 2015.7 [ 1090788 ]License: Creative Cloud
Operating system: Mac OS 10
Version: 10.12 [0]
Application architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 3.1 GHz
Built-in memory: 12,288.0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 12,288.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 1,893.7 MB (15.4%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 10,138.8 MB
Memory cache size: 2,397.8 MB
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 4
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX
Displays: 1) 2560x1440

Graphics Processor Info: 
Check OpenGL support: Failed
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Version: 4.1 ATI-1.44.68
Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 6970M OpenGL Engine
LanguageVersion: 4.10


Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom
Library Path: /Users/Ravi/Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom Catalog Ravi/Lightroom Catalog.lrcat
Settings Folder: /Users/Ravi/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

Installed Plugins: 
1) AdobeStock
2) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in
3) Canon Tether Plugin
4) Facebook
5) Flickr
6) Leica Tether Plugin
7) Nikon Tether Plugin

Config.lua flags: None

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AudioDeviceName: Built-in Output
AudioDeviceNumberOfChannels: 2
AudioDeviceSampleRate: 44100
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CoreImage: true
GL_ACCUM_ALPHA_BITS: 0
GL_ACCUM_BLUE_BITS: 0
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GL_DEPTH_BITS: 24
GL_GREEN_BITS: 8
GL_MAX_3D_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS: 8
GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS: 16384,16384
GL_RED_BITS: 8
GL_RENDERER: AMD Radeon HD 6970M OpenGL Engine
GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 1.20
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Thanks Jeffrey.
I quit all apps and restarted the iMac and Lightroom, it seem to have sorted it. The panels' control sliders and the filmstrip thumbnails are back in develop module. 

OK. Let me know if comes back.

I am seeing this with LRCC2015.8 too.  I am forced to restart LR to get my side panels back.  It seems to happen when the app is in Develop as a background task  for a long period of tim (for me it was overnight)   I suspect a memory leak.   When I return to LR I fin the side panels missing.  Using the keyboard to switch modules does not refresh the side panels (even though the side panels are different panels for the left and right panels. 
 

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Lightroom: Only center pane visible.

Occasionally, for some reason I haven't been able to figure out and
therefore can't reliably replicate, all of Lightroom's user interface panes except the center one disappear.  Some input of mine obviously is causing this; it doesn't happen spontaneously.  I haven't inadvertently set the application into Lights Out mode or hidden one or more of the control panels: it's just that everything is blacked-out except the center of the display.  I am unable to escape from this funny state using any of the interface-recovery methods I'm familiar with.  The only way I've found to restore the display to its normal state is to kill and relaunch the Lightroom process.  Bug?  Cockpit error on my part?

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Blackout.

have i found a bug in 2015.2 ? i’ve been working in the print module and every time i hit the print button the whole background and side panels black out completely...the one workaround i
have found is by minimizing the window and then bringing it back again – hardly high tech ! any other reports of anything similar ?
later on - this bug is now happening all the time , ie whenever i click to change eg from one module to another.

This intermittent issue has been confirmed by the Lightroom QE team.

To workaround this issue, hit Cmd + H to hide Lightroom and Cmd + Tab to bring it back.

If you're hitting this often, you can roll back to a prior update. Instructions are here https://www.lightroomqueen.com/roll-back-update-previous/

yippee ! what happens now ?

I am having the same problem. I need to process photos and I am unable to get anything done. Very Frustrating.

The same issue


Lightroom version: CC 2015.8 [ 1099473 ]License: Creative Cloud
Operating system: Mac OS 10
Version: 10.12 [1]
Application architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2,7 GHz
Built-in memory: 8 192,0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 8 192,0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 958,5 MB (11,7%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 4 125,3 MB
Memory cache size: 1 269,7 MB
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 4
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Displays: 1) 1920x1080

Graphics Processor Info: 
Intel Iris Pro OpenGL Engine

Check OpenGL support: Passed
Vendor: Intel Inc.
Version: 4.1 INTEL-10.20.23
Renderer: Intel Iris Pro OpenGL Engine
LanguageVersion: 4.10


Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom
Library Path: /Users/Photo/Pictures/Lightroom/2015/2015-2.lrcat
Settings Folder: /Users/Photo/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

Installed Plugins: 
1) AdobeStock
2) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in
3) Canon Tether Plugin
4) Facebook
5) Flickr
6) Leica Tether Plugin
7) Nikon Tether Plugin

Config.lua flags: None

AudioDeviceIOBlockSize: 512
AudioDeviceName: Built-in Output
AudioDeviceNumberOfChannels: 2
AudioDeviceSampleRate: 44100
Build: LR5x4
CoreImage: true
GL_ACCUM_ALPHA_BITS: 0
GL_ACCUM_BLUE_BITS: 0
GL_ACCUM_GREEN_BITS: 0
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GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS: 8
GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS: 16384,16384
GL_RED_BITS: 8
GL_RENDERER: Intel Iris Pro OpenGL Engine
GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 1.20
GL_STENCIL_BITS: 8
GL_VENDOR: Intel Inc.
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