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How to resolve black screen on WhatsApp for macOS?
Faced the same black screen, it was fixed by updating the WhatsApp application. Clicked command + space, typed "App Store", found WhatsApp, and clicked update.
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How to disable the “[…] quit unexpectedly.” dialog in macOS v13 (”Ventura”)?
Download the “Additional Tools for Xcode NN” disk image (the version matching your Xcode installation) from Apple's More Downloads page and start “CrashReporterPrefs.app” in the “Utilities” folder of ...
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Monterey - repeated kernel panics : watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from dfrd in 180 seconds
I set up a cronjob for every 3 minutes to restart the TouchBar. Since I set up the cronjob, I did not have a single kernel panic.
*/3 * * * * /usr/bin/pkill "Touch Bar agent" &>/dev/...
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Monterey - repeated kernel panics : watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from dfrd in 180 seconds
Just to help you out, I had this issue yesterday.
With the exact same error.
The kernel panic is in relation to BootOS, the Mac software side that runs the Touch Bar.
If this has failed or ...
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macbook keeps on freezing and restarting every hour (kernel panic)
The Etrecheck report shows you've got a ton of crap installed, any one of which could be causing the problem.
Notably, the MSM Kernel extensions, and Bitwarden.
Your One Drive drivers are quite old: ...
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I updated my Mac (to Monterey 12.5) and now none of my apps that I installed from the internet are launching
Nevermind I'm just stupid. After digging around for what "EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)" meant I tried running the app in terminal and realized I needed to reinstall Rosetta
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IBM SPSS Statistics 28 fails to open in macOS 12 (Monterrey)
After several attempts, the solution I found was to run SPSS with sudo from the terminal:
sudo -b "/Applications/IBM SPSS Statistics/SPSS Statistics.app/Contents/MacOS/stats"
To facilitate ...
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Preview app keep crashing (13.2.1 (22D68))
Usually, the saved state for the app can cause this. To test quickly, you will want to restart the Mac and start preview and not load any document.
It's located in the Applications folder - so open ...
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Is my MacBook Air Hacked?
The information you have provided does not seem concerning at all, though the stuff about a jailbreak might deserve a new question of its own, with more details.
The user name is leandritus and the ...
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Automator crashes upon startup
The normal procedure for something like this after an update is to determine if the issue is with the system or with something in your user’s account. Starting up in safe mode and/or creating a new ...
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RAID crash on Mac Studio
The problem is the size of the cluster. You must have clusters at 64k or higher with the disk utility or SoftRaid on an M1 Mac.
I was at 16k.
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Unable to open some Apps on M1- CPU consumptions are 100%
You have discovered that the problem does not appear in a new user account.
Do NOT migrate to the new account; but go back to the old one, and fix it there. (After all, if it happens again, will you ...
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Mac KernelPanic Using FireWire Device
Ok mystery solved thanks to Tetsujin. It is all a matter of later Mac Os versions dropping support for 32bit drivers. I have installed both High Sierra and Mojave and the Mackie worked out of box ...
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Kernel Panics - Do these observations offer any clues?
No, there's nothing to be learned from those observations.
As per you previous panic logs, we can say with a high degree of certainty that you have a hardware problem. Your alternatives are really to ...
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How to disable Apple Watch SOS crash detection temporarily out of app?
No, this is not possible to do.
There's currently no API for the crash detection feature. If an API emerges, I imagine it would be similar to the one for fall detection (CMFallDetectionManager) which ...
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Kernel Panic - assert failed: [14083]:low wA f4 i1875522 s3180082 n16 d0 w1.6 tGC9 tL30
I solved this problem by disabling Spotlight from indexing my Bootcamp volume. I know this sounds odd, but it worked for me. In System Preferences, open the Spotlight pane, then select the Privacy tab....
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Monterey - repeated kernel panics : watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from dfrd in 180 seconds
The problem is that the watchdog process, which makes sure that all systems are operating properly, has gone too long without communicating with dfrd, which controls the Touch Bar. If there's no ...
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Logitech Mouse (and mice) - unable to scroll up on Mac
I would highly recommend you uninstall Logitech Options and try the new Logitech Options+, which seems to work much more reliably.
https://www.kindacode.com/snippet/how-to-completely-uninstall-...
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I'm saving debug logs for iTerm2 but why can't I find them?
One possible reason for not finding the debug log is that iTerm does not have full disk access. It asks once when first installed, but if you skip giving it the permission, many things still work but ...
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I'm saving debug logs for iTerm2 but why can't I find them?
According to the wiki at
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/wikis/DebugLogging
If you go to menu at top and select Iterm2>Toggle Debugging,
it will start the debugging session, if you click it ...
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Mac Chess app crashes each time i open it
Your App Setting seems to be corrupted.
to solve the problem proceed as follow:
Create a new Mac User
Log in with that user in order to initialize it
Log in again into your user
Copy the content of ...
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iPhone crashes during restore
Charge your iPhone;
Check if you are using the original USB lightning cable;
Switch to another USB port.
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Avoiding all apps reopening when OS X crashes
Just a note for the CLI method...
Works perfectly in El Cap, but upon upgrading to High Sierra, it no longer worked for me.
After chown root and chmod 000, I watched in the finder as the system ...
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