Random shutdowns

[WRXiceman]

Hi all,

Today I experienced two random shut downs on my MacBook Pro 2019 running Big Sur.
It’s never happened before and I cannot pinpoint anything I was doing to cause this.

I was working on it as usual, then all of a sudden the screen would freeze for about 2-3 seconds, then the fans would spin up really fast for no more than 1 second before it would fully shut itself down, before automatically starting back up again.

Anyone had this happen to them before?

I’m a bit baffled by it and can only assume it’s something to do with Big Sur.

 

[cfdlab]

Does it show some crash report after it reboots ? What does it say ?

 

[WRXiceman]

Does it show some crash report after it reboots ? What does it say ?

It does, but it all looks like code. If it does it again, I’ll screenshot it.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

I've experienced a random reboot under Big Sur too. On top of a few graphical errors, and increased RAM usage.

 

[Steve51NY]

I am also getting random shutdowns and restarts i get the message shown in my screen capture. Any thoughts on how to fix???

 

[chatoyer]

This is happening to me as well (2019 16" MBP). First time in 16 years I've had random, but persistent, kernel panics.

 

[ader42]

I installed Big Sur on my 2014 iMac and it crashes/shuts down of it’s own accord within half an hour of starting. Always. Even with no applications running.

 

[flowrider]

Still happens to me almost every day in Safari. I'm on the 11.1 Beta.

Lou

 

[wills11]

I'm having an odd thing where my 2019 5k iMac randomly restarts—but without error. It shuts all open programs, then restarts itself. I thought maybe it had to do with my UPS shutdown settings, but both are off.

NB: there is no error message or anything like that; it's as if I restarted it myself, except I didn't, and was away from the machine at the time.

Anyone know where I would look in the system logs for this—and for what I would search?

Thanks!

William

 

[ader42]

I wiped the drive and installed Catalina on it.No crashes, so it was not the drive, it’s Big Sur.