Mac OS 10.15.4: Random restarts due to panic(cpu 1 caller

I use WebEx and Zoom and no panics; As soon as I use FaceTime I can 100% reproduce the issue. It will in 10 to 30 minutes create a panic in the bridgeaudiod.

Not using FaceTime means for me zero panics.

A crash every day... please do something fast.

Did you notice if is something related to sound device? I've seen there was trouble looking to the sound devices on multiple Video, when I start a conference start the audio and then panic:

panic(cpu 1 caller 0xfffffff01ad677b4): x86 CPU CATERR detected\nDebugger message: panic\nMemory ID:

Actually I've done that after contacting support...

... and I still have the bug.

I agree with some of you saying it's random although there's some kind of pattern somehow because it has to do with the T2.

• I was using an external drive -> now disconnected
• I was playing music while working -> not any more
• I had little snitch (installing a kext) -> not reinstalled
• I had some other software using FUSE (another kext) -> not reinstalled.

It seems to be a bit more stable this way.

But no, reinstalling from scratch didn't fix it!

I mean if I have to restrain myself using the Mac it's not going to stay here for very long. For anything important I'm still using my old 2009 iMac which has never ever crashed in the last 10 years of heavy use. Those were the days...

I'm telling you, they're going to lose loyal customers...

As Barney said, your drive should not need any software to mount in macOS.

SIP stands for System Integrity Protection and is an important component of macOS security, that prevents tampering with system files.

Yours is disabled.

The standard way to reenable it is to boot into Recovery, open Terminal, type

csrutil enable

and then restart.

Strange thing.. had an external Seagate 4TB .. all of the sudden it STOPPED working on my Mac Pro.. I took it off and my laptop did NOT FREEZE all day long.. connoted the drive again.. could not see it.. connected it to an iMac.. the drive worked.. 6 Hrs later... my MacPro died again... panic.....just got a box from Apple, sending it for "diagnostics"

I have similar issues and I can say, that it never appear when I am doing something. The hard shutdown and panic error only appear when I will leave my macbook pro 15" mid 2019 running, with no sleep settings. But when the CPU is computing something and the fans go loud, then everything is OK. When the CPU is not occupied and fans are quiet, then something goes overheat inside and the CPU get hard shutdown. It must be the T2 chip issue related. And it must be also somehow related that I am using 3 Thunderbolt monitors connected. The issue appears since the Catalina OS upgrade. Almost every day when I am going for lunch I came back and the laptop is shut down due the cpu panic.

I have also three external displays connected. From time to time the restart only happen when I am not working at all. And the cooling fans are at low rpm. When there is some CPU consuming process and the Cooling fans are loud, than the restart never occurs. I have a suspicion that it is related to the fact, there is some overheating happening and the fans are not going to spin faster to cool down the CPU. And somehow with the external displays it is connected also. And because of that the fans are controlled by the T2 chip, the issue must be in there.

I have the 15" 2019 mid MacbookPro.

MacBook Pro 13 2019, 2.8 GHz Core i7. It started after I began using an external monitor so I originally blamed that but it once happened without it plugged in. I'm almost sure it was some hardware issue during high system use, which the external monitor almost surely exacerbates. The company is going to send it in for repair, I will report back if they hear about a what gets repaired.

I have been experiencing those panics and restarts since 4 months and could deal with it by always keeping my MBP 15 connected to power and never closing the lid. So anytime I had to carry my MBP, I had to shut it down.

Unfortunately my maid closed the lid while cleaning my desk and this time when the Mac rebooted, it failed, saying I needed to perform a critical update to be able to use it. When it did, it was not capable of connecting to the Internet with my saved credentials and asked that I manually set them. Whenever doing it, it always failed, leaving me with 2 options, try again with always the same result or shut down. I was still able to restart in safe mode and when I did, it would automatically connect to the Internet.

But from safe mode, I couldn't use most of my softwares and couldn't access the App Store to perform the update.

I tried to reinstall from a TimeMachine backup, but it failed. Same thing happened when I erased my hard drive and made a clean install. Now my 3+ years old MBP is just unable to boot and Apple seems to be giving me a hard time to get it replaced as my Apple Care expired 2 months ago, while I had been reporting issues almost since day 1, had it repaired twice by Apple for all kind of issues and got most of the parts replaced but the motherboard which seems to be the issue.

All those times, I spent hundreds of hours in chat with tech support (and lost as much in work time because of the numerous issues (keyboard not working, restarts after not waking up from sleep mode, slow processing ...) while it was supposed to be the fastest Mac I ever had, custom made by Apple with all specs topped up) and asked for a replacement, which they never granted as it was not an off the shelf Mac but a custom. So that's my first lesson, I will never again buy a Custom Mac.

This being said, I have been constantly reporting issues and dysfunctions but I'm not an engineer, I relied on the Mac Genius and Tech to address the issue, but I now consider that they failed and that it shouldn't be me paying for this motherboard replacement as I had them fix my Mac twice in the last 18 months, in April 19 and December 19. And I firmly believe that the hardware failures I experienced and which led to the replacement of Keyboard, screen, battery, USB C ports for the most part originated from a defective motherboard. From my point of view, if pretty much all hardware parts have failed at some point, it's either that the Mac was all built from crappy parts (then I don't see why the motherboard would have been the only exception) or again that the defective motherboard caused them to fail.

What do you guys think? I would appreciate that some of you with a more tech profile share their thoughts about my analysis, as I have now to call them by phone as it seems like I've reached the limits of what the chat support can provide.

Thank you in advance.

Did we get to the bottom of this? its driving me nuts...

Could you guys report on whether you have Google Drive File Stream client installed and active? I have my suspicious around it, regarding these crashes.

I have had 2 brand new 16” MBP do the same thing. It is random. There is no fix. I returned both for credit.

BinnX1, what kind of MacBook do you have with described issues?

In my case it's:

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019)

2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9

32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Radeon Pro 560X 4 GB / Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Thanks BinnX1. Apple's suggestion is very far from being helpful in my circumstance. Since I got this MacBook in December 2019, I have had issues with it doing this panic thing. Took it in January and dude said I had Mcafee installed and might be causing the issue and that there were some other stuff going on due to backup reinstall from an older machine that didn't quite happen smoothly. Long story we did a factory reset in store, and no the problem hasn't gone. Very annoyed to say the least.

Same here!!

I took my 2018 13" MBP to w/ Touch Bar to Genius bar over a month ago for a 'Bad Magic' error and they couldn't figure it out.

Yesterday I updated to Catalina 10.15.4 from previous version and have had random errors 3 times now for 'Panic: watchdog detected', 'Bad Magic!' , and ' panic: CPU CATERR detected'.

This is really frustrating especially now with everything going on. Its my only way of working from home.