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33 questions linked to/from Are OS X shutdown cause and sleep cause numbers listed/explained anywhere?
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Where can I find my crash logs?
Console prints:
default 17:16:18.554342 -0700 ReportCrash Saved crash report for APP_NAME[50432] version 1.2.3 (4) to APP_NAME_2020-03-17-171618_MacBook-Pro.crash
I would like to ask you, where ...
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Why does my laptop shut down overnight?
Whenever I leave my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) unattended (plugged in, or not) overnight (or for long periods of time) it shuts down by itself. When I open the lid it boots up to the ...
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Shutdown Cause -128
My Macbook pro (early 2011, upgraded to 10.11) started behaving strangely lately. It started randomly crashing multiple times of the day, and the only information I've been able to find is the ...
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Can't login because of kernel panic
When I restart my computer I usually type my password to log me in. However, when I try to do this now it shows me the following message:
"Your computer restarted because of a problem"
So I ...
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iMac randomly shuts down
We have a late 2012 27 inch iMac. It has a 2.9 GHz i5 processor and a 1 TB fusion drive along with 8 GB of RAM. I recently upgraded it to El Capitan.
A couple of months ago it randomly started to not ...
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MacBook Pro takes 10 minutes to shutdown [duplicate]
I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 15", running macOS Sierra, which fails to shutdown properly. Originally when I closed all applications and then went to shutdown, it would take less than 10 seconds to ...
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How safe is Force Restart [Control-Command-Power Button] keyboard shortcut?
There have been a couple of occasions where I haven't been able to restart my macbook. Both times I've used this shortcut to restart but I am concerned about the state of the system upon reboot.
The ...
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Computer shutting down (dirty) randomly
Everyday when I come back to my system it will be shutoff no matter what I do, if I log out, it'll be shutdown, if I restart it will be shutdown. A grep through the log files shows me this:
2018-03-...
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Previous Shutdown Cause: -2
We have a new Mac Pro (3.6 GHz) running MacOSX 10.9.3 that unexpectedly powers off.
We've taken it in for service twice and the Geniuses were not able to reproduce the issue and the hardware ...
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What is shutdown cause -60?
Since installing Mavericks on my 2010 MBP, it seems to be giving me the spinning beach ball often. I think I may need a new HDD, as Disk Utility cannot repair it, but I also get this error:
Nov 21 20:...
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What is Shutdown Cause -108?
My rMBP 15" just shut down by itself when idling, screen turned off.
When I rebooted it, I checked the Console to see why it shut down, and found this message: 10/27/12 1:21:36.000 AM kernel[0]: ...
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2016 MacBook Pro shutdowns when the lid is close with cause 0
My 15-inch 2016 MacBook Pro is now experiencing shutdowns when the lid is closed. Though it is not a crash because I don't get a crash report when I turn the computer back on (unlike the problem I had ...
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Mac mini set to never sleep, but seems to be sleeping anyway (does not respond to network) [duplicate]
I've enabled SSH into my mac mini (late 2012 running OS X 10.9.3), and have the energy saver settings set so that the display sleeps after 10 minutes, and the computer is set to never sleep.
If the ...
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macOS Sierra restarting download instead of resuming
macOS Sierra is a whopping 4GB+ download and on my capped bandwidth ISP connection I've wasted already 10GB just trying to download it. App Store always restarts download instead of resuming from how ...
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Mac Mini - New SSD - Randomly restarting
I've had my 2011 Mac Mini for a while. About a year ago the internal HDD decided to give up. Oh well.
I just now finally got around to being able to replace the hard drive. I decided to go with an ...
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Kernel: "Previous shutdown cause: -62"
I have a late 2013 27" iMac running Yosemite, and it randomly shuts off every now and then. I tried everything Reset SMC. Diagnostics, reformat Macintosh HD but still occurs and running out of ...
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Shutdown cause -112
My 2013 rMBP regularly freezes (screen stays on but freezes as well). I have Yosemite 10.10.1. I couldn't see such behavior in 10.9 and I don't think it's a hardware issue (had the machine serviced ...
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Tracking down hard shutdown cause—software? hardware? overheat?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.7.4 on a 15-inch, early 2011 MacBook Pro.
I've had the Mac crash a few times in the last couple months, all attributable to letting it discharge (careless me!) except for the ...
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The reason for Previous shutdown cause: -128 [duplicate]
My MacBook Pro 11,2 (Retina 2014) shuts down suddenly from time to time. When I run macbook again, I inspect the log file I see the following message:
Previous shutdown cause: -128
Sometime, when ...
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Slow reboot after upgrading to OS X El Capitan
I upgraded to OS X El Capitan a few days ago and was having issues with reboot and shutdown times. It could take up to a minute. So I cloned back OS X Yosemite from a backup and partitioned part of my ...
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How to diagnose a graphic looking bug?
I got the following strange image on both low corners of 2 application windows:
Firefox (22)
Preview (MacOS X)
This strange image is following the windows corners when I move them.
This is occuring ...
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Random Kernel Panics with Shutdown Cause: -64
I'm using Retina Macbook Pro 15inch (OS X El Capitan 10.11.5) and getting random kernel panics frequently since March 2016. (1 or 2 times a day or more)
This is a company laptop and bought in October ...
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Shutdown cause: -104
I have Macbook Pro retina, model 2013. It started to randomly shut down for no apparent reason. The system log always contains this message:
Previous shutdown cause: -104
I have tried to reset SMC ...
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Unexpected reboot on a macbookPro with "Previous shutdown cause: -11"
I have a 2020 macbookPro 64GB 16" . It shut down unexpectedly and I ran a log show command to find out the cause:
log show --predicate 'eventMessage contains "Previous shutdown cause"' ...
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MacBook Pro frequently reboots
I'm going to describe the symptoms I'm seeing, diagnostic steps I've taken, then give the hardware configuration below. I would love to have any suggestions on how to fix this, or where to take my ...
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Getting error code -128 on a late-2015 iMac [duplicate]
Late 2015 iMac is rebooting on its own. Only Finder running, OSX 10.11.6. (2) 8GB RAM sticks. Got to catch it in the act today.
After reboot I find
kernel: Previous shutdown cause: -128
That doesn't ...
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MacBookPro8,2 early 2011 boots into safe mode but not to recovery mode (even with USB)
I have a MacBook Pro early 2011 that will only boot into safe mode, trying anything besides single user results in a crash or hangs with a white screen, can't even boot from an El Capitan USB, current ...
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Mac freezing, possible virus?
I am running Yosemite and experiencing very nasty freezing issues. Once I was able to recover from by reinstalling osx and second time (few months later) reinstalling alone didn't help, but also ...
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Kernel Panic - Random Shutdown - Please Help [duplicate]
Recently (the last three day) my late 2013 iMac has been suffering from kernel panics.
After reboot, console shows a 'Previous shutdown cause: -62'.
Can someone please tell me what this means.
The ...
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Is there an index / explanation for Shutdown cause -63 in the system log?
I am using MacBookPro12,1 (early 2015 model) and it restarts randomly without any warning. In the log, I found this:
2017-12-14 20:51:50 Previous shutdown cause: 5
2017-12-15 10:37:31 Previous ...