iMac keeps crashing after Catalina upgrade

That was listed in the one crash report I saved and happened to have copied over to the new MBA after my MBP died. Interesting!

That would also explain why the 10.15.3 beta may not be fixing things.

Anybody else seeing that line in crash reports?

So what are the alternatives to that particular software?

I am following this thread closely. Luckily I do not have the same crashing problem as you folk, [touch wood, you know what will happen now], 27 in iMac 14,2 Late 2013 but just thought I may be able offer some info on the Paragon app. Of course I do not know if that is any culprit. But I just recall seeing a mention of it in my database somewhere so thought I would point anyone in the direction if they thought useful.

Carbon Copy Cloner 4 Release Notes Documentation pages 22 and 242. I am sure you don't have to be a CCC user to find the document. It seems to be a problem app.

Again I do not know if this is relevant, just trying to contribute.

Just checking back in for the third time on this issue happening to BOTH of my iMac Pros. Still no solve and it continues to happen, losing valuable work this is insane- unlike previous years when random crashes would happen, Photoshop can't even recover the work lost.

The only NEW info I have is that for the first time, after one recent restart on one of the machines, i submitted the usual crash log and then immediately after, the attached window popped up specifying a sleep/ wake error. That primarily seems to happen on one of the two machines- the other one is used more heavily and its crashing in the middle of working on it, so i know the sleep issue isn't the exact culprit, but this the first new bit of evidence i've gotten since this first started.

APPLE- HELP

Crash 4 of the morning just today. Like others I used to use my computer for other things than web browsing. Like finances. Luckily for me my phone still works. IT won’t even stay running long enough for me to search for a solution without beach balling and restarting. Seriously though I was about to upgrade from my MBP to an iMac Pro but now am looking at PC as my Mac is just a pretty paperweight.

On a side note I’ve tweeted Apple and even been to the Apple store just to make sure it wasn’t a hardware issue.

I thought I left the frequent crashes behind me but yesterday was another pretty bad day with performance lacks and crashes all over the place. In the last days it was pretty stable but now it's back in crashing mode.

The only thing I did was starting parallels and launching windows and everything started all over again. This needs serious fixing from Apple. I am also thinking about buying a Windows PC or replacing Catalina with a windows installation. I am expecting a better performance if I buy an overpriced tool where the big advantage supposed to be that hard- and software work seamless.

Same problem on all my Macs:

macbook pro 2018

Mac pro 2013

Mac pro 2020 !!!!

It's repeatable and crippling.

What disaster ! Was Catalina seriously tested ?

I will roll back on the older machines but what about the new Mega expensive Mac pro. Also I have a dependency on Photos and I've upgraded the photo archives and I can't risk a failure on migrating them back.

We Photoshop InDesign, FinalCut and Photos are crashing.

Every fix suggested by apple is ... well what can I say! What a screw up - I hope Apple pays for this.

On a side note Catalina has caused my Time Capsule backups to now be corrupt. This is preventing me from rolling the system back. It won’t even stay up long enough to copy my files off. Where’s Apple aren’t you monitoring your “support communities” this is a disaster. I’m about to lose years of pictures, music and family videos. Chances of both the MacBook and Time Capsule failing simultaneously are remote. Never figured the OS would actually corrupt them. I feel if Apple would have tested this OS these problems would have been made aware or maybe they did test and were aware and have just lost sight of the consumer focus they once had when Jobs was the CEO. Now they are just in a hurry to release something new instead of something great.

Can anyone help me get a copy of the official Mojave 10.14.6 installer? I need it to downgrade a device I'm planning on selling, and he needs that version.

Links to the Apple Store for Mojave don't work for me, since when I attempt to "GET" it, it detects I'm on Catalina and fails to download it

Thanks!

In my case my MacBook Air freezes on one screen. I can't do anything. No shortcut works. I just have have to spree power button for few seconds to for it to power off and then turn it on again. This happen once or twice a day. Let me know if you have some fix.

Has anyone has trouble with messages not syncing correctly and also corrupt Time Machine backups. Seems the Time Machine will work until the first kernel panic. Then after that you are forced to create a new backup. Unfortunately, in doing so the old one is irretrievable so for me rolling back the OS without data loss is no longer an option.

@jrpmedia how did you get macOS Catalina 10.15.3 beta 3 ?

On both my Apple Developer portal and public betas all I can find is macOS Catalina 10.15.3 beta 2.

My MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) MacBookPro10,1with 2TB OWC SSD always crashes everytime on wake if my Energy Saver Computer sleep setting is enabled.

Crash report always display IOAHCIBlockStorageDriver::CommandTimeout!

I suspected 3rd party drivers but I do NOT see any likely culprits such as NTFS drivers.

kextstat | grep -v com.apple 
Index Refs Address            Size       Wired      Name (Version) UUID <Linked Against>
  168    3 0xffffff7f83f89000 0xf0000    0xf0000    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (6.0.15) 48610BA0-6A21-3DEE-A1E4-878DCE4951FE <8 6 5 3 1>
  175    0 0xffffff7f84079000 0x8000     0x8000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (6.0.15) CC4A792C-3FE0-3713-9F68-7785CB8A5F7F <174 168 67 8 6 5 3 1>
  176    0 0xffffff7f84081000 0x5000     0x5000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (6.0.15) EC659A04-6F66-3A23-8234-08EBF2FE1076 <168 8 6 5 3 1>
  177    0 0xffffff7f84086000 0x6000     0x6000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (6.0.15) F09BA07A-3263-353F-9D2D-14AD8DC82421 <168 6 5 1>
  178    0 0xffffff7f8408c000 0x4000     0x4000     com.paloaltonetworks.kext.pangpd (1.0.0) 2EB7232F-AC35-3CB5-81B3-D81783A18EEF <6 5 3 1>
  

At this point I would try Beta 3 if it might actually allow me to use Energy Saver Computer sleep setting again without crashing.

Yes, that could be the problem, but it happens with my late 2012 Mac mini that never had an issue with other OS versions. Yet my 2015 MBP with Catalina runs perfectly with or without external monitor.

Despite a new logic board, hard drive and power supply, I still have this issue on my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) with AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4 GB. I have 2 external monitors connected but the issue remains despite disconnecting them (freeze (except mouse cursor) and then crash/restart)).

Ok, I'll try safe mode shortly (although this has been happening since I got everything replaced too).

How frequently do you think it should be rebooted, interested to understand this because I've used Mac for many years, but when I moved over from a PC, one of the good things was that there was no expectation to keep rebooting to 'keep it fresh' like there used to be with Windows.

Yep, had that latest LastPass version - just used AppCleaner to uninstall it which has removed the app and the Safari extension.

I don't have much in login items anyway?

"....Back rev'g with a clean High Sierra build also failed to correct the issue. ...."

Logically that says it was a hardware problem IMO .Stuff does break now and then.

Good luck with Dell + Windows. I have been there. 18 months and you need to stick the keys back on.