SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired)

Literally just happened to me, too. I only purchased my Mac Mini on 26th Feb 2021.

And, I was running Google Chrome, Apple Mail and Whatsapp. At the time, I was merely watching a YouTube video, and then bam, bright green screen.

Not a positive start really...

Hello, unclear of your answer.

Your Answer:

Steps taken with 2nd level support:

1. MAC OS REINSTALL.
2. MAC DISK ERASE AND REINSTALL FROM ICLOUD.
3. ISSUE ALSO HAPPENS IN GUEST MODE LOG IN.

Did this stop the problem? When 2nd level support. Reinstalled OS, etc

Are you still having the problem?

Thanks

Hmm, well, that is rather interesting. I do have a Samsung SSD connected via USB. This drive is used for Time Machine backups.

I guess the question is, if that is the cause, how is one to use the unit with an external USB drive, without this issue? And, further more, how would one perform backups?

Thanks for taking the time to share your experience, and what Apple advised you.

Further update:

Just looked in my 'IT box', and found a USB A to USB C adapter. I have since disconnected my Time Machine backup drive that was connected to USB A, and used the adapter to connect it.

Let's see if this error, "SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired)" happens again.

PS: Maybe it is just me, but, already feel as if my mouse is moving MUCH better than it was...

For me, 3 days without any drives connected, and it never happened. Reconnected my drive today, via a USB A, as requested. We will see how that goes. Thus far (2 hours or so), and still working okay.

PS: So, you have no Time Machine backup(s), in a week?

Eight days and counting, no more crashes/restarts. And when checking Terminal \ uptime, it has not restarted at night or anything.

I will add, I have a schedule setup now for Sleep. Sleep mode starts around 22:30 - 06:00...

Actually, the sleep schedule might be connected? I didn’t use it for the first month or so, but started using it since last week. Even with it I usually put my computer to sleep, but there was one night that it went to sleep by schedule. It is possible, but I’m not certain, that that was the night it happened.

This just occurred while updating to latest BS OS update. I'm guessing but I suspect it may have something to do with the external hard drives. I keep two active one for tTimeMachine Backups and the other where I keep all active files. The third (an older drive) is connected for archiving old files. I had the third active when this happened.

I just bought a new Mac Mini M1 16G 256 storage two days ago, Big Sur 11.2.3 installed and the same thing happened twice: green screen and reboot. Error log is [SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired). I was also using a WD external hard drive (circa 2012-13) to manually transfer documents (only one or two apps, both updated), and I believe the drive was attached during both incidents. Have detached and will update in a week or two.

I have a brand new MacBook Air and this has been happening to me from Day 1. I have been regularly engaged with 2nd level support. I have repeatedly wiped my disk, reinstalled Big Sur, and worked without any peripherals. It is still happening and they are now going to take my machine and replace the logic board (apple-speak for mother board).

I have a 16 GB/1 TB M1 MacBook Air. It runs 24 x 7 and I am getting the following kernel panic:

SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired)

In my case I have and OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock connected. There are a bunch of peripherals connected to the dock. I sure hope this is a software issue. Not interested having to change out the hardware.

I have a Timemachine drive and a drive where I keep my work that I work from. The internal drive on my M1 Mac Mini keeps my apps and system files and I clean out anything that may fill it up since it’s only an 256gb SD.

I mostly work with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro. The first error crash happened when I had third drive on which I usually eject but forgot. Weeks later it happened again while working on Photoshop. The third drive was not connected. Could be a software conflict perhaps? It was working fine with the two drives for the three months after I bought the Mac mini. I see many users having the same issue. Hope Apple can figure this out.