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Monterey VM reboot loop and kernel panic in VirtualBox 6.1.32 (on Apple host hardware)
After some research, the problem seems to be about TSC (Time Stamp Counter) emulation.
The following worked for me:
Close ALL VirtualBox windows (otherwise the next setting will be overwritten)
Run ...
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My new Macbook (Sierra with touch bar) restarts every time I close the lid
First thing that drew my eye was that the panic appears to be 'networking' based.
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily
The only non-Apple kext you have is com....
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What is a Kernel Panic and what does it mean?
In general, a kernel panic is defined by Apple as "In UNIX, a panic is an unrecoverable system error detected by the kernel."
That quote comes from Apple's Technical Note TN2063: Understanding and ...
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What is a Kernel Panic and what does it mean?
(I'm Not a Mac person, but this applies to many Unices) A kernel panic is basically the Unix equivalent of the modern Windows Blue Screen of Death - an unrecoverable error detected by the kernel, ie ...
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Macbook permanently crashes while updating to El Capitan
I did it with simply press Cmd + R, and then press off. Cmd + R I kept pressed until Apple logo appeared, then I get into Install OS X mode. There you should once again connect to the internet, choose ...
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Why did deadbeefdeadbeef become deadbeeedeadbeef?
The error message you have got is directly from the operating system kernel - warning of unexpected memory corruption. This is obviously not supposed to happen. 0xdeadbeef is indeed a common "magic ...
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Monterey VM reboot loop and kernel panic in VirtualBox 6.1.32 (on Apple host hardware)
I found that changing number of virtual CPUs to 1 helps. But then it's slower, of course.
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How to find a cause of a Kernel Panic message, or BSoD?
All panic and sleep failure logs are stored in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports since Mojave, in Kernel-%DATE%-.panic files.
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Finally reinstalled macOS Sierra, but now I get a kernel panic
A kernel panic is nothing more than a software crash. A bit like when an application quits for no apparent reason, except in this case, it brings down the entire system, since the kernel is the heart ...
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Intel Power Gadget causes kernel panics
Update: Intel Power Gadget for Mac v3.6.2 should resolve this issue: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget
I'm the owner of Intel Power Gadget for Mac. Please contact me at ...
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Kernel Task is using 1000% of The CPU on macOS Catalina
Kernel_task is a dummy process which takes up CPU resources from other applications in order to cool the system down. So I would look at your system's cooling, maybe use fan tools such as Mac Fan ...
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Macbook air M1 - Repeated kernel panics because of display/external hub
No, this particular type of kernel panic does not in itself represent any form of risk of death of your computer in terms of actually damaging the hardware.
The problem is almost certainly a software ...
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What is a Kernel Panic and what does it mean?
The answers already given are complete and correct. Since your question may simply boil down to "what is a kernel" and "why did this happen", let me try to explain the jargon.
The software on your ...
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GPU Panic cpp 143 macOS Sierra 10.12.5 stability issues and spontaneous restarts
This was a known issue for this model MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, coverage for this has now ended.
However, there are a few things you can do to minimise the problem.
gfxCardStatus
Many users have ...
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MacBook keeps crashing every day: Panic (element modified after free)
Its bug in GPU Radeon driver :( Apple cant fix it from macos 11.3. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/678644 Downgrade to 11.2.3 is workaround, but not recommended: this macOS has zero day ...
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macOS Panic: ANS2 Recoverable Panic
I was getting exactly this problem on my MacBook Pro 16" 2019. My machine was crashing every day. I was able to solve this problem by disabling Spotlight indexing on my Bootcamp volume. In System ...
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How to investigate high kernel task memory usage?
I had a very similar issue after replacing my LCD screen on a late 2012 iMac. Fan was running at high RPM and had high CPU Kernel_task usage. I narrowed it down to a Temperature sensor you must move ...
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MacOS High Sierra crashes after a while
Sounds like you're on the right track with how you've started troubleshooting. Without knowing exactly what you've already tried, and for the benefit of others, I've outlined how I would normally ...
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Can't login because of kernel panic
This answer assumes:
your internal drive is full and this is why you can't log in
you do not have access to another Mac
you do not have another drive you can boot from.
The following steps will ...
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Old MacBooks no longer boot Snow Leopard
That photo says the kext (driver) for the Atheros airport card is what's causing the kernel panic.
There's a very simple way to disable this kernel extension, although it's terribly hacky: go into /...
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Is WindowsServer a part of OSX?
If you check carefully it’s “window server” with one S.
WindowServer is a normal process, part of macOS (and OS X before the name change) and that watchdog indicates the system could not continue with ...
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Regular Kernel Panics 10.11.3: com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall
According to the following discussion, unfortunately it seems that a kernel issue is somehow affecting several applications including Spotify.
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Mac/Kernel-...
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Why kernel log is empty?
As of 10.12, macOS no longer primarily logs to text files. However, you can interrogate the stored log data using the log(1) command on the command line in concert with the Console application (found ...
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macOS Catalina watchdog timeout kernel panics
I've tried safe-booting which actually fixed the problem which let me to believe there was something about my standard suite of applications that was causing the kernel panics. Low and behold, I've ...
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Kernel panic - Macbook pro 15" early 2011
I have exactly the same problem, with exactly the same error message, on the same model of Macbook.
Initially I thought that the AMD discrete graphics was damaged; this is a frequent issue with those ...
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What is Causing the Kernel Panic
Please keep in mind this is a guess, based on the 3 logs you provided and your description that you've wiped the OS several times without a change in issue behavior.
I noticed that all 3 logs show ...
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MacBook Pro freeze and goes off by kernel panic
Troubleshooting is a process of elimination and often requires patience, so keep that in mind as I'm going to offer you quite a few troubleshooting steps below.
The first thing I would do is to test ...
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Crash with error "No more room to grow table"
Seems it's a Google Chrome issue and the team is working on a fix.
Check this issue.
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Kernel panic every hour or so "UPSB: thunderbolt power on failed" ever since I upgraded to High Sierra
This is not an answer but a list of elements to progress toward an answer.
Kernel extensions upgrade
On the MacOS version having this kernel bug, the Thunderbolt kernel extensions were:
com.apple....
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Mac Mini 2018 Kernel panic bug_type 210 after Security Update 2020-002
I can confirm similar issues post Security Update 2020-002 on a 2018 Mac Mini runnign 10.14.6.
A few days later I power it down. On restart refuses to boot normally, taken to Internet restore, which ...
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