macOS Catalina 10.15.2 freezes/crashes MBA every single day – am I alone?

[pdxjay]

Thx. Will keep an eye on this if it happens again: I haven't had that kind of freeze since 10.15.3 -- now it's a "laptop looks like it is dead" freeze but it responds to a shutdown and restart request via a long-press on the power button.

Frustrating that my Raspberry Pi and Windows laptop have not needed reboots for a couple of months in comparison :-(

 

[hwojtek]

Sounds like the graphics card switching issue - used to do it a lot when flash was installed - this day and age no need for flash - if you have that installed try removing it and see how you get on.
And as I say this was down to the graphics card switching between the high performance one and the discrete one - flash would always try to get the higher performing one...

Last time I checked, a 2015 MB Air had a single Intel HD Graphics 6000 and nothing more inside.

 

[Serge Berezkin]

AThe main reason of freezing is PKD process working on 150%. Kill process usually helps. The same **** on imac2019 and catalina.

 

[hwojtek]

AThe main reason of freezing is PKD process working on 150%. Kill process usually helps. The same **** on imac2019 and catalina.

PKD will restart immediately anyway (pkd manages plug-ins for the PlugInKit subsystem. It is a classic launch agent managed by launchd) and this means you have a systemwide plugin that does not work properly.

This is not the reason for Macbook Air freezing while using SMB shares, a bugged smbd implementation in 10.15.2 is. Please do not mix any other computers nor circumstances into this topic. This is strictly about crashing MBA on sleep/wake and this issue has been tracked down to a - now corrected as of 10.15.3 - bug in smbd. Thank you.

 

[VSG]

Thanks everyone!
I, too, can confirm, that for me the bug has been fixed in 10.15.3. Haven’t had a crash since and it truly makes a night and day difference.

Let’s just keep our fingers crossed that the bug won’t be re-introduced in the future. Wouldn’t be the first time.

Best regards,
VSG

 

[pmonks]

So for me this issue started with macOS 10.15.3. I have a Synology NAS that I've been happily using from several macs for a couple of years, and while it worked up to and including macOS 10.15.2, 10.15.3 reliably crashes within an hour or so of mounting any of the shares on the Synology device, even if I unmount them as soon as I'm done. This happens on two different laptops - a mid-2015 MBP, and a 2018 MBP.

My suspicion is that a sleep/wake cycle is also needed after mounting to trigger it, but I haven't had the time to run a clean room, no-other-variables-present test to confirm this.

Oh and before I discovered this thread, and after numerous hard crashes per day, I assumed it was a bollocksed upgrade, so I wiped the mid-2015 MBP's internal drive and reinstalled 10.15.3 from scratch. That didn't change the behaviour at all, so I'm pretty certain it's something wrong in macOS, not something peculiar to my user account or the (lengthy) upgrade path this laptop had previously been through.

 

[MakeAppleAwesomeAgain]

So for me this issue started with macOS 10.15.3.

For me too on a MBA '13. I just installed 10.15.4 beta 4 and it seems to be fixed.

 

[pmonks]

For me too on a MBA '13. I just installed 10.15.4 beta 4 and it seems to be fixed.

That’s promising! Do you also use a NAS of some kind?

 

[MakeAppleAwesomeAgain]

That’s promising! Do you also use a NAS of some kind?

Synology DS918+

 

[xplainit_dk]

Running 10.15.4 and AFP and SMB is working correctly with no finder lockups after sleep. Using Macbook pro retina 15 late 2013 with synology 1019+

 

[KJL3000]

10.15.4 (19E287) made it even worse for me... MacBook Pro 16". Crashing most of the time when sleeping, lid closed.

 

[fifinator]

Same here, regular crashes on MacBook Pro early 2013 since Catalina Update 10.15.4 (first update made), before was running flawlessly. Keeping it permanently awake works partially, but even during basic browsing crashes an average of 1x per hour.

 

[RnR]

Same here, regular crashes on MacBook Pro early 2013 since Catalina Update 10.15.4 (first update made), before was running flawlessly. Keeping it permanently awake works partially, but even during basic browsing crashes an average of 1x per hour.

Hello, just wondering if you found a solution? Thanks

 

[fifinator]

Hello, just wondering if you found a solution? Thanks

Hi RnR! Still negative, hoping, hope it is reasonable hope, for a future update to resolve it. I tried to delete any older 32bit? apps that supposedly causes the crashes, diagnosis shows Kernel Panics.

I tried to point it down to specific apps or actions, no success so far. Crashing randomly while browsing Safari.

I also tried a clean install of Mavericks (late 2013 Macbook was delivered with it I believe), but this also crashes from USB booting attempts. Internet recovery also crashes half way in. It seems that mostly always only the display crashes, rest keeps running - maybe that is a useful hint?

 

[xnsys]

Try disabling powernap

 

[fifinator]

Try disabling powernap

Thanks indeed I did!
Works for me as well -no nap, no sleep, neither on battery or AC - only manual.
Works partially, as the display (also) "crashed" on each nap or sleep.

 

[DuBz]

Tracking a similar issue in this thread:

Two crashes since upgrade to MacOS 10.15.4!!

have you tried booting into safe mode and see if the crashes happen?

forums.macrumors.com

 

[AndyEdinburgh]

I am having the same problem on my late 2012 27-inch iMac with MacOS Cataline 10.15.7. It works for a while then suddenly Finder hangs up (beachball) for no apparent reason. I cannot reproduce the problem. When it occurs I cannot use Force Quit because that menu is within the non-responsive scope of Finder. If I force the power off and restart, it is still non-responsive after opening.

However, I can quit using Activity Monitor. But that is only possible if you have it in the dock before the error occurs, so you can launch it without having to use Finder.

I would like to know why this probem has occurred with later versions of Catalina and when when Apple is going to fix it? It should have a high priority as Finder is rather and important app!