Catalina constantly crashing when Sleep

The only way to solve the problem was to switch back to Mojave. it took me 3 day. But be aware of that Mojave is not able to read a Timemaschine backup made with Catalina. So you have to prepare some additional backup before delete Cataline from your mac. The good thing is

1) I‘m still happy again with Mojave

2) I got rid of more than 100 gigs of chunk.

I hope desperately that anyone of Apple is reading this blog to

1) excuse to all mac users for the mass

2) to revoke Catalina and to try it again later

Updated to catalina 10.15.3. Does not solve the issue. After updating, I put my MacBook Pro to sleep (I had two Microsoft software open - OneNote and PowerPoint). 4-5 hours later, I tried to wake it up, but the frozen rainbow came up when I was trying to sign in. It was not as frequent right in October, but now it seems to be freezing everytime I put my Macbook to sleep.

No, blew most of my day yesterday. Did the install and then used it for a bit.

Left my Mac for a couple of hours and came back and it had crashed and rebooted. So...

10.15.3 does NOT fix this issue.

Also: Again, the ONLY time it crashes is when the external 4K screens are connected. I can use the Mac without them, and it never crashes. Whatever the issue is for me is related to Video.

Vega 20 in a 2018 i9 MBP

Many thanks to Tony for this suggestion. I tried everything in this thread and the crummy Apple support page, and nothing worked. But when I removed these extensions AND set my computer so that my displays never go to sleep, the problem went away.

Josh, if you set your mac not to sleep your not going to see the issues, but for a macbook user the battery life will be next to useless :-)

Someone in Apple needs to take a closer look at the functions that control the power management upgrade to 64 bit processing as something is not being written properly when going to sleep or not being read properly when waking up. Extensions in Chrome did not cause me an issue when I did a fresh install for 2/3 days but I had other issues with software just hanging, Photoshop, Safari, OneNote, terminal window after the fresh install.

I have got fed up with Catalina and gone back to Mojave (no issues since).

So I have to thank all of you who are persisting with Catalina updating this post with the updates from Apple and whether they all work or not. You all must have the patience of saints, god bless you.

Kind regards

Roger

Thanks Roger. Just to clarifying, though -- setting my Mac to not go to sleep by itself didn't solve the problem, nor did any of the utilities work (Amphetamine, caffeinate, etc.). It was only after deleting the extensions AND setting it to not go to sleep that my computer would stay on.

I also reached out to Apple Support today. Their suggestion was to run a virus scan and then reinstall Catalina. Not very helpful.

Hi, I was never getting crash on sleep so my guess is that it is not related to my case.

However, I have Chrome, Firefox, Brave and Safari browsers. I had to remove hardware acceleration in Chrome, Firefox and Brave. So, all 3. I had no issues with Safari so did nothing there.

And what is beyond belief is that when I recently contacted Apple and asked if there was a known bugs list I was told by 2 advisors including a senior one that they were not aware of any outstanding bugs with OS.

I made many test and procedure described on this forum but even not suspending after long period of inactivity mail and browsers to mention some apps stop working. To fix it meed to turn off the computer by pressing the power off button.

The problem is getting worse. When my MacBook Pro (mid 2014, Catalina 10.15.3 (19D76)) is asleep, it crashes - that's not new - but now two times in a row. First the 'usual' crash, then another crash during the boot after the first crash. Then, after the 'enter' of logging in, the computer freezes completely and I have to force a hard boot with the power button. The computer then reboots and I can log in but then the system is extremely slow. Again restarting another time and login I can finally get to work. Good heavens Apple, what a mess you make of it!

I made some additional test and I found out that only happened wen conectes vías usbc with in my case a LG 5K ultra Slim M. Yesterday’s I left the machine disconnected from monitor I made several sleeps an everything works well both browsers and email working ok, very weird case

Today I Re-install Catalina not a fresh one (erasing disk), but using and internet install to refresh the OS, and even before that I delete the Cleanmymac X suspecting that was having or causing problems. After a wile the problem persist. Browsers stop navigating pages and mail did no show content, the wired situation when this happen is that previous page continue to navigate (Page that was already open) but no new page. Microsoft Teams continue working, also other apps even native one as news, etc But browsers (Safari and Chrome) and apple mail did not, even weird that Microsoft Outlook continues working es very annoying and weird. I also supected of Avast was blocking traffic but I have other two machines that are working fine, only the Mac Book Pro 15 Inch 2017 Mac OS 10.15.2

Since the 10.15.3 update, I no longer have sleep crash with OWC Thunderbay. I used had to turn it off before sleeping the Mac. Now, I leave it on all the time and not a single sleep crash. All good at least for me.

If you have Thunderbay, give the 10.15.3 update a try.

Even though my product is different with OWC( I am using the drive docs) I had him tested it in a while. So I went and did that and would you believe I didn't crash on sleep with 10.15.3! Thanks! I am sorry that so many people are still having a problem. I was really surprised that it finally didn't go to sleep when it was attached to the Doc.

It’s not an OWC-specific problem. I have a bus-powered USB Toshiba Canvio drive being used for Time Machine that appears to be causing my sleep crashes/restarts. When I swapped the Toshiba for a powered (i.e., wall outlet) OWC Mercury Elite Pro (also connected to a USB port), the crashes stop. Although it’s possible that the drive or its hardware interface is failing and causing the crashes (I’ve already tried a different cable and different USB ports), the problems began when I upgraded from Mohave.

The update to Catalina 10.15.3 has had no effect. I’ve been working with an Apple Senior Advisor on this for weeks. Still waiting to hear back from Engineering about the data they’ve collected from my iMac.