Constant coreaudiod crashes

What third-party software might you be running the uses coreaudio, for example, Boom3D. When it does crash use Activity Monitor to find out what process crashed that used coreaudio.

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Hello,

I've somehow the same incredibly annoying issue.

Coreaudio keeps restarting (or crashing) I could not identify it, at some point in time.

Sometimes it happens when the CPU is overloaded or when switching screens. When it starts to switch ON/OFF the only thing to do is to kill coreaudiod within Activity Monitor. Then the issue temporarily stop, restarting randomly after a while.

It looks like there's no 3rd party software which may cause the issue, and I do have another user with ZERO software installed and it still gives the same problems.

Do you have any clues (apart a possible hardware issue)?

Kr

Antonio

Hi jscheel,

I am having likely same problem as you. Also discovered following message in logs as first message when the drop out happen. Have you had any luck of identifying whats going on? Interestingly I have macbook pro 13 2018. When googling this error message I found only you having that problem.

Btw do you use VirtualBox? Thats currently my main suspect. Tried to properly uninstall it and will see if that makes difference.

coreaudiod  Received Boot notification. Enumeration already complete: 1

After upgraded to Catalina, I have the exact same issue. The coreaudiod keeps restarting and restarting and restarting. I tried the SMC reset. It's no use and very disturbing!

I am using the 2019 Macbook air, and it becomes much more easily laggy after I upgraded to Catalina.

Also, Safari tends to consume a high percentage of CPU, which sometimes lead to laggy situation and make the coreaudiod keep restarting.

None of these issues happened before the upgrade.

I am a Mac device user for more than a decade. I think that Catalina is the OS with the worst performance.

I had a suspicion that this was related to Zoom. After uninstalling zoom I have had no more issues. I have had several versions of zoom and in spite of upgrades this was going on.

In the Console I looked at the system log, searching for coreaudiod showed frequent

Jun 29 09:59:20 <removed-macbook-name> com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.audio.coreaudiod[70701]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
Jun 29 09:59:20 <removed-macbook-name>  com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.audio.coreaudiod): Service only ran for 1 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 9 seconds.