Kernel Panic - MacBook Pro Apple M1 13 Inch

Also getting daily/nightly kernel panic restarts on my M1 Mac Mini (base model). I'm thinking it's likely USB -driver related? I also have a Samsung 4K monitor (60Hz via HDMI-2 direct) and an ORICO 1TB NVMe external SSD. I initially tried the SSD via USB-C but it panicked nightly so I switched to USB-A cable and it still panics. No Google Chrome or hub installed here. I just keep seeing USB scattered throughout the kernel panic log so I'm suspicious that's the culprit.

Hey, could your problem be related to Football Manager? Our reports are very similar

Check my thread and log: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252210055

And also: https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/544503-macbook-pro-m1-2020-shuts-down-while-playing-fm21/

WindowServer is the MacOS task in charge of drawing windows for you to see on your display. (No relation to Microsoft Windows). that is the thing that crashed. I am not user why.

If you get more like this one, you have a trend that can be tracked down and fixed.

If this is a non-trend (all over the map in different routines for different reasons) it is likely to be a festering RAM memory problem.

Is this consistently for the same panic reason? if so, you may have a hardware issue, and should seek service.

In this context, DART appear to stand for Device Address Resolution Table, a complex way to decide what I/O (i.e., not RAM) is being addressed, and finding its ring-buffers.

After spending most of the afternoon researching and reading a wide variety of forum posts, it appears my external ORICO NVMe USB-C 3.1 (10Gbps) SSD enclosure shipped with Realtek RTL9210B-CG firmware that was not "Mac Friendly". I applied a firmware upgrade on a Windows PC and -- so far -- no issues observed through several sleep/wake cycles and lots of file copying tests. I'm optimistic this was the root cause of my spontaneous disk ejections & reboots. I'll update you in a few days.

I am also getting kernel panic errors frequently. It is usually when I am running a game through Steam that I receive this error, but with 16GB of memory and the M1 chip that should be no problem whatsoever. My MacBook Pro freezes, then a black/pink pixel screen pops up, and finally the computer restarts. The error seems to be GPU related in a way. This is worrying and I hope they address it.

I checked out your links blatny, and I'm fairly confident that FM20/21 is the culprit. I have not encountered this error using any other program on the MB. The fact that so many others have reported this issue pretty much confirms that this is a FM-related issue for me. My 16GB RAM M1 MacBook should actually run the game fine and is capable of much more, other demanding programs don't reset the computer, and there's no other explanation. Hope they fix this soon, love FM.

This occurs daily for me as well. Mac mini M1 OS 11.1. I am using HDMI to connect to 4K monitor.

Second MacBook Air M1 connected to Samsung 4K monitor via Hyperdrive USB-C Hub works a little better

Third MacBook Air M1 connected to Vizio 4K TV via HDMI through a OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock is the most reliable.

Other differences. Mac mini has bluetooth keyboard and magic mouse 2. Both Airs use Logitech trackballs and Logitech Wireless keyboard with USB dongle. I think there may be an issue with bluetooth wake, but it could be having an issue waking up because it crashed.

The daily crash happens when monitor goes to sleep. Support had me check "prevent computer from sleeping..." in energy preferences and we'll see what happens tomorrow.

M1 Macs are having massive problems with kernel panics while attempting to put thunderbolt devices to sleep via power management. Apple is receiving TONS of kernel panic logs but pretends they've never heard of the issue when called via tech support. It appears Apple is pretending the issue isn't real.

You can find instances all over the internet with people complaining about kernel panics and many thunderbolt devices (monitors, raid arrays, TB hard drives, thunderbolt docks, soft raid programs loaded onto external raid arrays, etc). People are also complaining about monitors connected via HDMI. Apple has a massive M1 problem on its hands and so far is pretending it doesn't exist.

Lots of people are returning their M1 Macs before the return window closes because they're not getting any sense that Apple is even acknowledging the problem.

Jan 7th 2020 Update, also on BeachStreetNews.com again:

Good News:

Mac Mini M1 16gb/1TB OS 11.1 BlueTooth Keyboard Magic Mouse 2 did not crash for the first time today. Fix appears to be checking the "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off" in the Energy Saver panel of Preferences. This was at the request of Melissa in tech support. Not a great fix but a fix none the less so hopefully Apple addresses it.

Bad News:

MacBook Air M1 16Gb/1TB OS 11.1 did crash again today. There is a pdf of the crash log on the Beach Street News blog post. I can't figure out how to attach it here. This crash appears to be USB related. This MacBook Air is connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port replicator. That in turn has a 4k HDMI monitor, Logitech solar keyboard with USB dongle and Logitech track ball attached. This is the second crash on this MacBook Air M1.

The only problem free unit is the MacBook Air M1 8gb/512MB with Hyperdrive (indegogo beta version) port replicator, Samsung monitor, Logitech keyboard and trackball, G-Tech external drive. This one is used exclusively for email, photo editing on Adobe creative cloud and web surfing on safari.

<< Fix appears to be checking the "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off" in the Energy Saver panel of Preferences. >>

^-- So the above is the support-suggested work-around for kernel panics citing DART-related issues??

That is the only thing I got from support after an hour, and so far on day 2, no crashes on any of the M1 machines. I think they know there is an issue and don't want to say it openly (yet). Who know there the "cpu sleep" rabbit hole goes.

I am sure that @seminolefans is correct that they are getting a lot of these crash reports and while it may not be the direct cause, it is a preventative fix for now.

Given that the M1 and Big Sur are both new to the market, I'll call them both Apple Consumer Beta ready, I am sure there are thousands of bugs to work through. For the first time since working at Apple, I joined the consumer beta program. Normally I wait at least to the .2 version of anything out of Cupertino.

And a correction to my previous post, the problem free unit also hosts weekly zoom meetings for the city artist council, but that is all the software it has. My M1Air has four pages of apps now and has only had the two USB crashes. I don't play games though. Only MS teams, video editing, graphics and business management related work.

My guess for gamers is that the Mac world is not very friendly in the M1/BigSur era just yet. I have yet to find a Mac based game I like so I don't know much here. X-Box One and PS-4 with Logitech Wheel both in the rack though.

If anything changes, I'll check back.

My base M1 Mac Mini crashes every hour or so whilst playing Football Manager 2020. I've tried all of the troubleshooting ideas in this thread (and beyond) but still no luck. Below is a copy of my error report - hopefully an Apple Dev can identify the problem?

Part one:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xfffffe002ef984c4): "dart-disp0 (0xfffffe2336810000): SMMU(SMMU) error: SID 0 PTE invalid exception on read with DVA 0x38000 (TTBR 0 SEG 0 PTE 0xe) ERROR_STATUS 0x80000004 TIME 0x4a1eda69270 TTE 0 AXI_ID 0)"

Debugger message: panic

Memory ID: 0x6

OS release type: User

OS version: 20C69

Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 20.2.0: Wed Dec 2 20:40:21 PST 2020; root:xnu-7195.60.75~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101

Fileset Kernelcache UUID: 3E6AA74DF723BCB886499A5AAB34FA34

Kernel UUID: 48F71DB3-6C91-3E62-9576-3A1DCEF2B536

iBoot version: iBoot-6723.61.3

secure boot?: YES

Paniclog version: 13

KernelCache slide: 0x0000000025de8000

KernelCache base: 0xfffffe002cdec000

Kernel slide: 0x0000000026928000

Kernel text base: 0xfffffe002d92c000

Kernel text exec base: 0xfffffe002d9f4000

mach_absolute_time: 0x1c765bddfb

Epoch Time: sec usec

Boot : 0x6006dc1d 0x000037ac

Sleep : 0x00000000 0x00000000

Wake : 0x00000000 0x00000000

Calendar: 0x6006effb 0x00096814

CORE 0 recently retired instr at 0xfffffe002db5d798

CORE 1 recently retired instr at 0xfffffe002db5ec5c

CORE 2 recently retired instr at 0xfffffe002db5ec5c

CORE 3 recently retired instr at 0xfffffe002db5ec5c

CORE 4 recently retired instr at 0xfffffe002db5ec60

CORE 5 recently retired instr at 0xfffffe002db5ec60

CORE 6 recently retired instr at 0xfffffe002db5ec60

CORE 7 recently retired instr at 0xfffffe002db5ec60

Panicked task 0xfffffe166e3de550: 1474 pages, 6 threads: pid 179: coreaudiod

Panicked thread: 0xfffffe1671020658, backtrace: 0xfffffe3015a234e0, tid: 8544

lr: 0xfffffe002da41f8c fp: 0xfffffe3015a23550

lr: 0xfffffe002da41d58 fp: 0xfffffe3015a235c0

lr: 0xfffffe002db63f5c fp: 0xfffffe3015a235e0

lr: 0xfffffe002db55914 fp: 0xfffffe3015a23690

lr: 0xfffffe002d9fb7e8 fp: 0xfffffe3015a236a0

lr: 0xfffffe002da419e8 fp: 0xfffffe3015a23a30

lr: 0xfffffe002da419e8 fp: 0xfffffe3015a23aa0

lr: 0xfffffe002e1dc3f8 fp: 0xfffffe3015a23ac0

lr: 0xfffffe002ef984c4 fp: 0xfffffe3015a23ae0

lr: 0xfffffe002ef950e0 fp: 0xfffffe3015a23d40

lr: 0xfffffe002ef94c1c fp: 0xfffffe3015a23dd0

lr: 0xfffffe002ef94470 fp: 0xfffffe3015a23e80

lr: 0xfffffe002e11307c fp: 0xfffffe3015a23ec0

lr: 0xfffffe002e147570 fp: 0xfffffe3015a23f20

lr: 0xfffffe002eb4a808 fp: 0xfffffe3015a23fb0

lr: 0xfffffe002e13948c fp: 0xfffffe3015a23fc0

lr: 0xfffffe002db58218 fp: 0xfffffe3015a23fe0

lr: 0xfffffe002d9fb85c fp: 0xfffffe3015a23ff0

Part two:

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.driver.AppleT8020DART(1.0)[D768ADF3-3CA3-3499-8780-6132BBD96EE9]@0xfffffe002ef90000->0xfffffe002ef9bfff

dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleARMPlatform(1.0.2)[5CBA9CD0-E248-38E3-94E5-4CC5EAB96DE1]@0xfffffe002e334000->0xfffffe002e37ffff

dependency: com.apple.driver.IODARTFamily(1)[88B19766-4B19-3106-8ACE-EC29201F00A3]@0xfffffe002fa7c000->0xfffffe002fa8ffff

com.apple.driver.AppleInterruptController(1.0d1)[3050C096-BD70-354E-A26C-1F64FCC326FA]@0xfffffe002eb48000->0xfffffe002eb4bfff

dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleARMPlatform(1.0.2)[5CBA9CD0-E248-38E3-94E5-4CC5EAB96DE1]@0xfffffe002e334000->0xfffffe002e37ffff

last started kext at 354699421: com.apple.fileutil 20.036.15 (addr 0xfffffe002d104000, size 16384)

last stopped kext at 6049131220: com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBHostPacketFilter 1.0 (addr 0xfffffe002d798000, size 16384)

loaded kexts:

com.apple.fileutil 20.036.15

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com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.1

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com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothHostControllerTransport 8.0.2f9

com.apple.driver.usb.AppleEmbeddedUSBXHCIPCI 1

Part Three:

com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCIPCI 1.2

com.apple.driver.AppleEmbeddedUSB 1

com.apple.driver.AppleConvergedIPCOLYBTControl 1

com.apple.driver.AppleConvergedPCI 1

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com.apple.driver.AppleSEPHDCPManager 1.0.1

com.apple.iokit.AppleSEPGenericTransfer 1

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com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPInAdapter 8.1.4

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPAdapterFamily 8.1.4

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltUSBDownAdapter 1.0.4

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltPCIDownAdapter 4.1.1

com.apple.driver.AppleBTM 1.0.1

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com.apple.driver.DCPDPFamilyProxy 1

com.apple.nke.ppp 1.9

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