Constant Kernel Panics – userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from com.apple.WindowServer

[turbineseaplane]

I've recently been having these kernel panics relating to watchdogd for the last few weeks, tried reinstalling, a magnitude of settings...and got nothing....until today....

I use a 2018 MacBook pro with sonoma and a Philips external monitor, I was getting these crashes with or without the monitor and at varying times, randomly I just thought id change the resolution of the MacBook screen from 1680 x 1050 and drop it down by one to 1440 x 900.

Since doing this I've had zero crashes in the last 3 hours (when normally it would crash every 2 mins), so I suggest trying it and let us know how u get on.

Interesting
What solved it for me is: "I went back to Monterey"

My god do I prefer the older macOS versions
Absolutely rocket fast and snappy .. and I love having System Preferences back

 

[Fatboyjack]

Interesting
What solved it for me is: "I went back to Monterey"

My god do I prefer the older macOS versions
Absolutely rocket fast and snappy .. and I love having System Preferences

Would just like to add, still absolutely 0 crashes!

 

[Simulist]

Time traveler from 2024 back on this issue~~
I came across this panic-watchdog-windowserver issue 6~8 times a single day, together with all the infamous errors including "Green screen of death"\Black out\Panic\Freeze etc.
These problems happened across MacOS 13 and 12.

Downgraded to Catalina 10.15.1-19B88, everything start to function like a charm.
I'm now running all day under quite a lot cpu+gpu load with completely no errors.

So my conclusion is that the fault is all on Apple.