Since installing Catalina yesterday, multiple crashes from userspace watchdog timeout

A few weeks back I was getting a couple crashes a day. But now I haven't crashed in well over a week. I'm not sure what could be different. I do consciously put my computer to sleep instead of letting it go into sleep mode on it's own.

I did attempt an upgrade of my hard disk. I had to send back the new internal hard disk due to it being unreliable, so I should have the same setup that I had before, but in the process I updated all of the firmware and ran lots of tests when I was trying to get the new hard disk to work. Maybe in all of that something fixed the issue, I don't know.

I know that isn't helpful, but I haven't crashed since then.

In terms of my system setup, I had my current hard disk in a USB enclosure and booted from it several times, then migrated it back to internal when I gave up on the process. I worked my way through a big list of tests, but they were all applied to the new faulty hard disk. With all the noise, I'm not sure I can offer advice.

Brand new 16" MBP on 10.15.2.

Laptop in clamshell mode w/three monitors plugged in (two usb-c -> mini-displayport, one HDMI via USB-C "multi-av adapter".

Unplug usb-c->mini dp adapters, unplug multi-AV adapter, move laptop to living room, attempt to open screen and have MBP wake from sleep and....it's doing a fresh boot instead because it crashed with this error.

Don't have much open at all other than Teams, a terminal session, Vmware w/Win10 VM, Github, Microsoft RDP client, Messages app.

Hoping this doesn't become a frequent thing :(

SAME PROBLEM! SINCE I UPDATE, HOW CAN I DOWNGRADE MY IMAC TO MOJAVE?

panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff7f8cdb6aae): watchdog timeout: no checkins from watchdogd in 183 seconds (414 totalcheckins since monitoring last enabled), shutdown in progress

Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address

I did not run any kind of restore of my new Macbook Pro 16" - set it up as brand new and manually copied over files, installed apps, etc. Did not want to migrate over all the clutter from 7 years of heavy usage of my old Macbook.

Still happening :( Same as previous reports, and others reports.

panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff7f9179dad5): userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from com.apple.WindowServer in 120 seconds
service: com.apple.logd, total successful checkins since wake (145161 seconds ago): 14517, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago
service: com.apple.WindowServer, total successful checkins since wake (145161 seconds ago): 14505, last successful checkin: 120 seconds ago

Sorry, gotta deflate.

But this Catalina is a piece of crap!

I'm very sorry I installed Catalina.

I have besides the watchdog crashes which come up again and again also problems with copy&paste e.g. in Photoshop. I also have problems with Safari over two screens. And there is even more in the mail program.

It is the absolute horror, because these are partly serious errors. And it's just completely **** that nothing happens from Apple. We are really ready for Microsoft now. I don't see much difference anymore. I'm just so disappointed!

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Interestingly I thought the same, but eventually I got a similar Kernel Panic upon wake despite having auto sleep after a certain time disabled and manually sleeping the computer. I took many sleeps and wakes over the course of several weeks, though so it definitely seems to help it happen more seldom at least.

There should be something we have in common – AMD (Radeon) graphics card perhaps? Or does it happen for anyone with Intel graphics only? I haben’t had the problen on my work computer with Intel only GPU.

Hi bathnm

Can you kindly give the exact steps you are using to disable power management? Thanks!

Also, I've got the new 2019 MBP 16 with the following graphics:

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB

Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Thanks for that info. I already have that checked. What about the rest of the options?

• Turn display off after... X mins/hrs
• Put hard disks to sleep
• Wake for Wifi
• Enable Power Nap

Do you have an option to toggle "Automatic graphics switching"? I have mine selected but have been thinking to deselect that in case this is all about a graphics issue.

I'm trying to temper my excitement, but using the settings given by Xebrawerx above, I did not have a crash while my MBP 16 was connected to my external displays! This is the first time since I bought this computer in Nov 2019. Huzzah!

NB. I also turned off "Automatic graphics switching" for the first time before bed yesterday. So I will turn in back on now and see if it still keeps from crashing.

Too bad beta 2 of 10.15.3 still have the problem. Let’s hope for beta 3. I've been reporting all my problems about this to Apple and have opened a specific bug report about this problem that I've updated with logs continously.

I (I guess most of us) really want to be able to sleep and wake the computer reliably – both automatically after a certain time and manually. :-/

Update: Turned "Automatic graphics switching" back on and didn't touch anything else. Crashed again overnight. Turned it back off and no crashes all day yet today even when I walk away from computer and come back to it sleeping.

Really starting to compile more evidence it's all about GPU. I've got the new 2019 MBP 16 with the following graphics:

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB

Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Anybody else make sense of this? I'm guessing we all don't have the same graphics units...

3 pages before you stated SMC fixed the issue for you and not cables. 18 pages of comment wont generate with cable issue. Are you randomly adding comment for points? Do you even test more than a day as you fix for same problem seemed change page after page

Very sad to report kernel panic even with Automatic Graphic Switching turned off.

Woke up to this again:

panic(cpu 12 caller 0xffffff7f9419dad5): userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from com.apple.WindowServer in 120 seconds

service: com.apple.logd, total successful checkins since wake (130 seconds ago): 14, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago

service: com.apple.WindowServer, total successful checkins since wake (130 seconds ago): 2, last successful checkin: 120 seconds ago

Ugh

Will give Ampethamine a chance as suggested above. The app ;)