Catalina 10.15.6 keeps crashing

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Catalina 10.15.6 keeps crashing

I have a problem. I updated to macOS 10.15.6 and now my system keeps crashing when I leave my computer for some time. Here is the crash report (some data removed for privacy concerns)

panic(cpu 2 caller ): userspace watchdog timeout: remoted connection watchdog expired, no updates from remoted monitoring thread in 69 seconds, 2219 checkins from thread since monitoring enabled 44430 seconds ago after loadservice: com.apple.logd, total successful checkins since load (44430 seconds ago): 4443, last successful checkin: 10 seconds ago
service: com.apple.WindowServer, total successful checkins since load (44400 seconds ago): 4431, last successful checkin: 10 seconds ago

Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
......
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.driver.watchdog(1.0)

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: watchdogd
Boot args: chunklist-security-epoch=0 -chunklist-no-rev2-dev chunklist-security-epoch=0 -chunklist-no-rev2-dev

Mac OS version:
19G73

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 19.6.0: Sun Jul  5 00:43:10 PDT 2020; root:xnu-6153.141.1~9/RELEASE_X86_64

Any idea what I can do? Please help, my system is unusable. I cannot restore my workspace every few hours when I leave my computer unattended.

MacBook Pro Retina

Posted on Jul 21, 2020 3:08 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 3, 2020 2:00 PM in response to frtzn

Nothing plugged in on my MacBook Pro... seems to be problem during idle time... hard reset clears everything up

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Answer 2

Sep 5, 2020 10:12 AM in response to frtzn

Interesting... thank you for the post... I also use creative cloud and it frequently has updates... I have found the suite to enjoy control... I will run similar exercise... thank you

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Answer 3

Ronasara

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15,519 points

Sep 5, 2020 10:39 AM in response to frtzn

I want to compliment you for applying the logic you have used. That is the best way to really understand what it is you have to deal with. Great job.

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Answer 4

Sep 5, 2020 11:58 AM in response to twststern

Sorry, the new version of Firefox is 80.0.1

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Sep 5, 2020 5:57 PM in response to alekseyfromsan francisco

exactly same issue for me here. late 2013 imac. crashing every hour. very unstable since installing macOS 10.15.6 (19G2021)

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nathanh0

Level 1

8 points

Sep 22, 2020 7:46 AM in response to nathanh0

Alright I'm done posting here. Good luck all you crash reporters.

Apple --- Whoever worked on Catalina needs to be fired. Rehire the team that made Mojave, that OS was rock solid. Bye felicia.

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Answer 7

Sep 30, 2020 12:00 AM in response to twststern

Problems returned: hard reset was necessary. Yesterday I used Malwarebytes a few times. Today I started Carbon Copy Cloner and it jammed.

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Answer 8

Oct 3, 2020 12:36 PM in response to astramario

No, I don't have a FileStream app running on my iMac 27 late 2012.

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Oct 12, 2020 2:17 AM in response to Old Toad

Thank you Old Toad, I'm a bit busy now. If the problems continue and my frustration grows, I will follow your instructions.

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Oct 21, 2020 8:14 AM in response to nathanh0

You would hope these things work out of the box at the price. We'll persist with updates and installs, see where we get. Applecare will pay for itself if we get no-where.

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frtzn

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8 points

Oct 21, 2020 8:39 AM in response to nathanh0

nathanh0 wrote:

There's a fan issue with macbooks?

With the 2020 MacBook Air, yes. See this Macworld article for details.

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Jul 25, 2020 5:08 PM in response to KVTinnkeeper

THIS DIDN'T WORK. SEE MY NEXT POST.

I had many (36) 32-bit applications on my system and I uninstalled them based on your advice and it appears to have solved all my issues with 10.15.6 on my Macbook pro 2014. It's been over an hour and no system freezing. I used the CleanMyMac X app to uninstall the 32-bit apps and I also cleaned "leftovers" as the CleanMy Mac X calls them, when I manually uninstalled apps in the past.

If anything else pops up I'll post here but so far so good. Thanks KVTinnkeeper for the tip.

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Answer 13

Jul 25, 2020 5:03 PM in response to NonStopEMD

I spoke too soon. Right after posting that the 32 bit apps may have been the issue my system froze and the errors came up. Was really hoping this was the solution.

back to trying to figure out what is causing this issue.

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Jul 26, 2020 2:01 AM in response to alekseyfromsan francisco

I'm getting daily WindowServer watchdog timeouts on my iMac since upgrading to 10.15.6 - it always happens between 11pm-1am local when the system is idle and display inactive.

I've also seen it on my MBP during the day a couple of times.

I have both VirtualBox and Xcode 11.6 & Xcode 12 loaded on both systems. I've tried reseting the PBSRAM and SMC on the iMac without and difference.

This is a MAJOR issue and need a way to disable the watchdog. I tried using launchcrtl to disable it before, but it killed the system. I'm really not in the mood for the usual "reinstall the OS" fetch the rock games from support.

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Answer 15

JimInVA

Level 1

9 points

Jul 26, 2020 7:42 AM in response to alekseyfromsan francisco

Same problem on my iMac 27. I also notice excessive fan activity since applying 10.15.6 I guess it is related to the watchdog issue. I am performing a 10.15.6 combo update that I just downloaded from Apple Support to see if that resolves the problem. As it seems to happen mostly overnight I probably won’t know if it was successful until tomorrow.

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