Catalina 10.15.6 keeps crashing

I had similar dialogue boxes come up and so I entered password. The next time I logged in to user account, I got new dialogue box messages that said “Receiver Helper” will damage your computer” or “Service Records” will damage you computer” both had “ This file was downloaded on an unknown date” then a checked box that says “Report malware to Apple to protect other users” and then blue box with OK checked.

that’s when I took it to MicroCenter because Apple is closed. So now had to reimage it twice and now trying to load from back up from Time Machine to see if my good profile can be loaded properly.

Here the same thing, my macbook pro 2015 freezes around once a day. No other option then hard rebooting. I would like to see an statement from apple where they state they are acknowledging the issue assist and are working on a fix.

DiegoIR wrote:

Source? How do you know that?

Because I just finished installing it. Open System Preferences->Software Update. It has been announced on various Apple tech forums, like AppleInsider, MacRumors, and 9to5 Mac, which is how I found out about it.

It’s 2.8GB download so that might mean more is going on than VM crashes. We’ll see soon enough.

Curious @akashthomas43, I've been running the update on 2 systems for > 6 hours and neither have leaked any kernel memory that I can determine from watching the wired memory counter.

Perhaps you have a different problem. Watch the "wired memory" number in the memory tab of "Activity Monitor" to check whether it gradually grows over the space of an hour.

[edit: I'm running VirtualBox on both with different uses in the VM's, different disk & network configs. My MBP panicked during the install phase of the update but recovered and completed ok - it was a watchdog timeout in the SMC driver. Another person at work reported a panic during install.]

Agreed, I have updated both of my MacBookPros with the supplemental update yesterday afternoon. about 12 hours no crashes till now.

One Mac has Virtual Box and the other has VmWare fusion.

It is running stable so far.

I installed the update just over 13 hours ago. After a night of inactivity, my Mac Mini (2020) has not rebooted. I don't use VirtualBox or VMware. My mini would reboot almost every night due to a watchdog timeout. Here's hoping that this update has finally resolved the issue.

I installed the supplement update as well and I’m also running the latest version of Parallels. So far so good. No issues that I can tell for about 12 hours now. Previously my system would require a reboot every 30 minutes. My carbonite backup is updating too. It couldn’t complete since July 17 when I updated to 10.15.6.

we shall see.

This is a little off topic, but very interesting to me. Concerning the just released update, I have an old late 2009 iMac (in addition to two recent ones) which runs the High Sierra OS. I understand that High Sierra is no longer supported. However, yesterday it updated itself. Totally unexpected. That tells me that Apple must have determined that this update was badly needed to fix something. It speaks well for them, in my mind.

Thanks for the help but I unfortunately I saw your message too late. I actually just wiped my drive clean after saving my important files, and downloaded a clean os install. Then I reset my nvram/pram to get my Touch Bar to work again. The OS is actually a bit different now because now the log in page after a restart comes instantly and then after I unlock the computer, the loading bar shows up. Kind of strange because that's never how my computer was before, but so far I'm having no issues. Hopefully this isn't like the other 10 things I've tried and it stays fixed.

lkrupp wrote:

"macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update" released this afternoon. Hopefully it will fix at least some of the issues reported in this thread.

A bit offtopic (sorry!), but the size of that „supplemental update“ really surprised me: 2.82 GB for a mere bug fix. I remember when Mac OS X required 1.5 GB of disk space -- for the whole OS.

That aside, I guess we are all hoping for Catalina's different kernel panic issues to be resolved with that update. It seems to have successfully fixed the memory leak which affected VMWare users. But there is no evidence yet for the random panics that usually come late at night, and for the panic-on-wakeup issue.

frtzn wrote:

Here we go again: My MacBook Air just had another kernel panic. So apparently, the 2.82 GB „supplemental update“ did not solve the issue. What a disappointment.

What this says is that your kernel panics are unrelated to the memory leak fixed with the update. It means you could have a hardware issue or you could have a third party kernel extension that is misbehaving. My first suggestion would be to take your machine for a hardware diagnostic. Or you might download and install Etrecheck to run a system check for problems that might cause a kernel panic. I apologize if you have already done this.

Thanks for that clarification.

My only option is to stick with 10.15.5. Until I see positive reports that the problems are fixed. From this forum or Apple itself. It's a shame that Apple has never said anything to this problems.

I once had a hardware defect, mad memory chips, lead to kernel panics, too. And these crashes finally destroyed the hard drive. Not the drive itself, but the content was messed up. Lucky for me, in times when TimeMachine was already invented.

A kernel panic is for sure something you should avoid. Yes, journaling file system, but that helps not always.

That said, I still don't trust 10.15.6 and the supplemental update. For me the system crashed when 10.15.6 was installed. With and without running Fusion. During the night, when in idle. During the day when I was running Fusion.

Pretty worse. So I keep 10.15.5. Because I need the machine.

TomHaukap : Since installing the supplemental update on 3 different machine (2 Mac-mini, 1 Imac27) when it first came out, I have not had any kernel panics or other issues. One machine is now running VMware Fusion with no issues. I have my Imac27 grinding out a TM backup to one of the Mac-Mini's over the network. It has been running successfully for hours now. The other machine, basically pure vanilla, is not having any problems connecting via our network with data stored on the other 2 machines.... This is all a huge difference since prior to 10.15.6 supplemental....

In looking at the posts, I did not see a troubleshooting report on your system so pardon me if you have already done this previously... when I first upgraded to 10.15.5, then upgraded to 10.15.6, I did not even get to the situation where I was seeing crashes due to memory leaks, etc. My systems were totally unstable. What I discovered was that when I upgraded, even though I had obsoleted all 32 bit apps from my workflow, they were still loaded on the systems, and their associated crud (launch agents, daemons, etc) were trying to start up. After meticulously removing all vestiges of the 32bit apps, the system was able to achieve "stability" to the point I could see the kernel panics and memory leak issues that were in the system. if you have already cleaned out all of the 32bit apps and their detritus, then you can ignore this comment. If you have not... give that a try before you give up on 10.15.6...

I have the same problem. But I found a wonderful solution which permanently fixed my problem and now I am completely frustration free. The solution: I went back to using my PC laptop with Windows 10, which never crashed once in all the years that I owned it. Apple used to make good stuff but nowadays Apple has become synonymous with crap and utter frustration.

Apple themselves have no idea what’s going on. Their support team has had me reset everything there is to reset. They made me wipe my drives and reinstall the os. They made me make a new partition and reinstall the os. They are completely clueless about this. This is so mind blowing how horribly they’re handling this.