Catalina 10.15.6 keeps crashing

I had the same exact word for word issue. I brought it into apple, and my laptop, the 13 inch 2017 model is still under the keyboard replacement program, so they replaced my Touch Bar for me under that warranty, and it just came back, in perfect condition. So far the Touch Bar is working and my sleep is functioning as well. So I genuinely believe that the issue is a Touch Bar/Keyboard issue if everyone else is having this occur with their Touch Bar MacBook. It makes sense because the Touch Bar is always functioning, so it could have something to do with the kernel and that maybe.

***Been 3 hours of sleep and no crash. Restarted the laptop afterwards and Touch Bar is still working perfectly as well.

I have been with apple for years and this latest version so bad I am ready to sell my new mac pro.

Copy and Paste...such a simple function...crashes consistently.

Finder craps out when it wants to

And the latest updates to pro codes that just came out...has all my pro apps messed up. Licesning of third party stuff shot...what a mess.

Hello Have you try to disable Thunderbolt related drivers ?

In my case I have the same problem it automatically shutdown randomly So I removed all thunderbolt drive and it works well now

1) reboot with CMD+R pressed.

2) open Terminal

3) csrutil disable

4) reboot in normal mode

5 a.) sudo mount -uw /

5 b.) sudo mv /System/Library/Extensions/AppleThunderboltNHI.kext

/System/Library/Extensions/AppleThunderboltNHI.kext.BAK

6) reboot with CMD+R pressed

7) csrutil enable

8) reboot normally

If you still encounter issue try to remove all file that contain Thunderbolt name in it

Not sure if anyone else has tried to disable Thunderbolt...but considering I have a thunderbolt raid for my working files, two thunderbolt monitors.... I don't think thats going to be a solution for me.

DhairyaSenjaliya wrote:

Hello Have you try to disable Thunderbolt related drivers ?

In my case I have the same problem it automatically shutdown randomly So I removed all thunderbolt drive and it works well now

Thank you for this suggestion. Just to be more clear about this: Do you use any (USB or Thunderbolt) hardware on your USB-C ports other than the charging cable? If you do: Did your Mac crash even when nothing was plugged in?

I likewise installed update on my MacBook Pro and it crashes after period of no use... everything is locked up and I have to do a hard reset... also have lost use of my webcam within the past week.... tried all of the camera reset options but is not recognized by my apps that use the camera. Not necessarily attributing camera issues with updates. However, the timing of these issues might be more than coincidence. I stream video with HULU and for 3 days, Hulu could not confirm my location and would not allow me to stream... again, not sure why the problem was happening but couldn't get anywhere with troubleshooting....

I thought only PCs have these problems... Apple! You're letting me down.

frtzn wrote:

Following a hint from another thread, it becomes more and more likely that either Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Cloud is the software responsible for the crashes.

On 20 August, I wiped my HD and did a clean install of Catalina 10.15.6 on my MacBook Air.

Every few days, I installed a couple more applications: VLC, Google Chrome, Mullvad VPN, Thunderbird, Little Snitch, Micro Snitch, BBEdit, Transmission, Google Earth, BlueHarvest, Swinsian, Moom, Zoom, Fujifilm X Webcam.

For nine days, I had no kernel panic.

On August 29, I installed Adobe Creative Cloud. My Mac immediately started to behave oddly, e.g. the screen froze for about a minute each time I woke the computer up from sleep. Four days later, I had another kernel panic.

I uninstalled Adobe Creative Cloud, and the freeze-on-wakeup issues are gone again. I will use the Mac like this for the next days, checking if it crashes again. At the moment however, it seems to me that Adobe is the cause for those kernel panics.

My mac crashed the first 5 minutes after the install (a while back). After that it stayed up. It has crashed 3 times since then.

I am writing now because it crashed shortly after booting up and turning on some music in my Chrome Browser.

I'm on a Macbook Pro 2019 i7 - It might be too old - Apple I think only tests software in 6 month manufacture iterations apparently. :thumbs-down:

3rd crash in 30 minutes.

Narrowing it down to an external hard drive. Trying to now wipe my time machine disk, it can't even eject it.

Apple you guys probably need to see if you guys know how to read external hard drives without crashing the whole computer. This might be something to add in your OS after 20 years (or maybe you should have never made Catalina because this OS sucks)

I installed 10.15.7 and it looks like the crash issue is fixed. I have not experienced it today (usually at least 5 times). I came to the point that I was actually considering buying a windows pc... go figure.

Fingers crossed.

Thanks for the reply. Your suggestion is probably not needed, since 10.15.7 came out today. That update seems solid.

I have automatic updates running to be always up to date. No cleanup or other dodgy applications. Only antivirus Avira, which is light and never posed problems the past 13 years.

I too am getting the panic crashes, and it's happening on both my 2020 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro (see discussion). Level 10 Tesserax suggested pulling the plug on FileStream, removing it from my hard drive completely, and seeing if the same issue resumes. So far, NO issues. The mac is good as new. This is clearly some hiccup in the FileStream protocols. I heard elsewhere it might be because FileStream is sucking the CPU while restoring files. Did you happen to be installing FileStream for the first time on your hard drive when the crashes took place?

To be clear, I'm running Catalina 10.15.7, and my crashes began the moment after I started syncing my FileStream account. I can't say for certain, but it seems oddly conspicuous that after having the MacBook Pro reimaged by my tech department, the random freezes and shutdowns resume within hours of redownloading FileStream. But the moment I remove FileStream from my hard drive, the issues completely stop.

Funny how people still come up with 'solutions' like installing third party software. While, the real solution is just updating your Mac with the latest version of Mac OS 10.15.7. That fixes the problem completely!

Check your background apps, and make sure the latest versions of them are the ones you have running. In my case, FileStream was downloaded from the Google Support forum, but it was 25 versions old. I'll edit this post as soon as I see if my system still has the same issues, but so far, no crashes.

Thursday I removed Malwarebytes. Yesterday Mail did not show the content of my mails, only a list of mails. After stopping and restarting Mail I got the multi colored ball and had to do a hard restart. I checked for the presence of Malwarebytes software remnants en removed them. One I was unable to remove: MB_MBAM_Protection.Kext.