Mac-mini 4-1 mid 2010: intermittent rebooting under macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.

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Mac-mini 4-1 mid 2010: intermittent rebooting under macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.

Starting in 2019 I had intermittent rebooting issues with my mac-mini. I consistently sent the partial system dumps to Apple. No specific software was reported in the panic report. I thought it may have something to do with Symantec's Norton 360 and VPN. I removed them and the problem continued. I then erased the SDD and did a clean net install of macOS High Sierra. After running ramtest and other diagnostic software everything was in the green memory, power supply etc.. The problem continued. I believe Apple knows about this problem and has it fixed in macOS Catalina or macOS Mojave, but aren't going to back level the fix for High Sierra. Since the rebooting was becoming more frequent I had had enough and as an old Linux user I installed Debian 10.19 Linux. I have been running it for 3 months now without a single reboot.

Mac mini, 10.13

Posted on Jul 18, 2020 5:05 PM

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BDAqua

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Jul 18, 2020 5:42 PM in response to zzace

You can save us asking dozens of questions by submitting a report from this App for us to look at…

EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info.

https://www.etrecheck.com/

Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report if you capture the URL while there…

https://pastebin.com/

Whew, they've changed pastebin & made it harder, but after pasting in, click Create new paste button, then Embed button, then copy the URL...

The important part is...

https://pastebin.com/embed_js/KuvnghqA

Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck. In a Reply before you click post, look for this to add longer texts...

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Mac-mini 4-1 mid 2010: intermittent rebooting under macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.

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