macOS 10.15.7 very unstable, constantly freezing and restarting automatically

The computer I was referring to is a company owned device. After looking at the logs they determined the culprit to be Google Drive. I deleted Google Drive and all is well again.

The next day I found my computer (lid down and presumably asleep) to be oddly warm. I checked the Activity Monitor and found GoogleSoftwareUpdate continually running and "Not Responding". I deleted all locally installed Google Docs Apps and GoogleSoftwareUpdate.app.

I concluded is was best to remove everything related to Google (Chrome/Chromium excepted).

Try resetting NVRAM and SMC.

Try restarting in Safe Mode. It will be slow, but does it still crash?

If things look ok (but slow) in Safe Mode, it could be a software conflict.

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.

We need to know more in order to help you.

There are two likely causes for this sort of problem:

a) a hardware issue

b) a software conflict - maybe something that you have had installed for a long time is not compatible with Catalina. This occurs often. I guess you may have been updating your mac over the years; you may have something in there from the time of Mavericks or Yosemite...

In order to figure that out:

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.

I imagine that you just upgraded in place and did not erase and install, right?

Probably whatever was causing the crashes is still there.

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here, so we can have a chance to look for possible culprits.

I was facing same issue on my Catalina 10.15.7. I upgraded to BigSur 11.0.1 thnking that issue will be resolved, but facing same issue on BigSur also.

OS freezing and restarting automatically without any kernel panics.

just by looking at crashes, I think it is a WindowServer crash.

On my brand new M1 Mac mini... this continues.

to recover the stuck screensaver, I hold cmd +option and then tap the power button on the computer. This puts it to sleep. Then I wake it up and it’s good to go...

I also found that if I disable the screensaver on all accounts that it doesn’t seem to lock up...

my Mac is constantly crashing with this OS as well. macOS 10.15.7 EXTREMELY UNSTABLE!! ANY Suggestions?

I'm having major issues with 10.15.7 as well. I started installing it right before I left to eat dinner with my daughter last night. When I got home, my 2019 MacBook Pro 16" was as hot as an iron and kept rebooting over and over and then crashing at the login screen. I now have to go get that repaired. My 2020 MacBook Pro 13" didn't die (yet), but it is extremely unstable. Cubase refuses to run and so does the Steinberg eLicenser. Both just hang. I use Karabiner Elements to remap my keyboard and the update installer just hangs and won't load. Other apps crash as well. I haven't had the entire system crash and reboot, like my other Mac, but I'm definitely not happy with this update.

Same problem here, my 2017 iMac has been an unbelievable machine until this update and now I am spending more time crashing and restarting than anything else.

Mac apps and Adobe apps all seem to just bring the computer to it's knees.

I have slowly tried to eliminate software and now hardware... run system diagnostics and disk utility... everything comes up clean.

The machine appears to think that adobe apps are "not responding" while they are booting. If you wait long enough, sometimes they load but then whatever unexplainable thing that starts the crashing process slowly takes over the entire system. Cannot even get into terminal. Just need to do school work - but instead I'm wasting time with this!!! oye!

This is shot of error: panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f864faad5): userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from com.apple.logd in 120 seconds

service returned not alive with context : unresponsive dispatch queue(s): com.apple.firehose.io-wl

service: com.apple.logd, total successful checkins since load (8000 seconds ago): 789, last successful checkin: 120 seconds ago

service: com.apple.WindowServer, total successful checkins since load (7970 seconds ago): 792, last successful checkin: 50 seconds ago

Laptop starts CPU starts running hard( fan full power) laptop is completely frozen then crashes.

Did any one find the solution for the freezing and restarting under Catalina 10.15.7? It happening every 30 min. Can't do anything.

This happening on a iMac late 2013, 3.5 GHz i7, 32GB ram, NVIDIA GTX 780M 4GB, PCI SSD.

I'm having this problem as well and I am definitely NOT tech-savvy enough to figure it out myself. My computer is a MacBook Pro mid-2012. It was doing fine until I was forced by Adobe to upgrade to Catalina. Now it randomly restarts -- mostly while I'm using Safari 14.0.3. I ran the etrecheck thing as suggested and here's my report:

I am grateful for any suggestions and help anyone can provide.

I am having the same problem - macbook air 2012 - also overheating - just don't know what to do...may try to start a new post, because I can't see any resolution on this thread...or did I miss something?

I have no new or unkosher software or hardware here.

I keep copying the panic reports into notes - they are hard to read & as someone else said they all seem to come from different sources..

I would completely wipe my computer but I don't know how... getting really hard to do anything here!

continually report to mac.