SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired)

Hello, unclear of your answer.

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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.

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.

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.

Same thing happened to me, twice now with M1 Mac Mini 8GB purchased at the end of February. All of a sudden screen turns green and computer reboots, and the error message is the same "SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired)" - whatever that means. Have two external drives connected, but one time this happened with computer in sleep mode, the other time while using Spotify.

I've just had this too, M1 MacBook Pro. No external storage connected, in fact no devices connected.

Using Safari at the time, with Music, Messages, Photos, NetNewsWire and Visual Studio Code open in the background.

No weird 3rd party utilities installed to my knowledge. It's been otherwise fine for the past 41 days.

I have the same problem. Mac Mini M1, 16 GB. Worked with Adobe Illustrator on an artwork. Monitor turned black and computer restarted out of nowhere. Very annoying. Most damage: My trust in that M1 mac mini machine. I started to save my projects almost every 2 minutes in fear I might loose all work progress.

In addition to what I've written before:

Apple support reached out to me for troubleshooting, which was great, at least they are trying to figure out what is going on.

I still have my WD external drive connected for Time Machine, it's connected 24/7 and I have not had a AP Watchdog failure since it happened the first and only time. Since that first time I manually put the machine to sleep every night and manually wake it up. Not sure if that is connected.

Earlier today I initiated a manual reboot (after ± 2weeks of running and sleeping) and after boot I got an error specifying that the machine had to reboot because of an issue with the watchdog (not AP watchdog), I've send the report of to Apple hoping that it will be helpful.

I have also noticed that the machine is taking a loooooooong time to boot, it takes about 45 seconds before I get any indication that it is actually booting; screens are black, no chimes etc.

Even if not running, Time Machine could cause issues. But good to know it does not seem to be peripherals as some report problem with no externals and some report no Time Machine running.

Therefore it is most likely that it is all Apple that needs to fix this ASAP!

Apple will keep bouncing it to the users — do this, do that, work with no external hard drives(!), etc. — over and over until, they wake up and fix it… in Cupertino.

I had this happen today. MacBook Air (M1, 2021), Big Sur 11.2.3 (20D91).

More datapoints:

Nothing plugged in the entire day. I don't have Rosetta installed. I was running Mail, several Browsers, several editors, brew, Julia.

I'm getting the same problem. SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired) on a Mac Mini M1 (Feb 2021) w/ 8GB and 512GB. I have a Samsung T5 USB-C portable SSD (used for data storage) and a WD Elements USB-A (used for TimeMachine). It is occurring nearly daily now. I've been watching this thread for some time, but I'm getting a little concerned that it has gone on now for two months with no resolution other than "don't use your external drives." I've started using the Mac Mini for work because it's faster than my corporate laptop, but I'm getting concerned about the reliability and waiting for a significant loss of work someday soon.

Even though what is attached does not seem to be the cause, on Mini M1 I have two USB A drives. One is USB 2 Journaled HFS+ (old box but new mirrored hard drives in it, will be replacing with USB 3 or Thunderbolt) and the other USB 2 APFS but that is the TimeMachine back up.

Also one Thunderbolt/USB 3 SSD APFS (nothing on it yet) and one AUKEY USB C Hub Ultra Slim USB C Adapter with 4 USB 3.0 Ports USB Type C Hub. In the hub is an Apple extended keyboard with mouse in it. Also a USB to my CyberPower back up battery and a USB DAC for 3.5mm audio to speakers.

The Mini was fine for weeks. It has been fine for, I guess over a week now? after the one and only time this happened to me.

I think it is not the connected devices but some kind of system glitch. Possibly related to TimeMachine turning on to back up.

Apple, where art thou? This crash bug needs to be quashed or squashed.

Now That is Concerning.

Just to add. Ive had my M1 Mini for 6 weeks. This never happened until last night. I have a WD Mybook Dual drive raid connected via USBC. I added a WD m.2 in an enclosure, connected usbc, yesterday. I thought maybe this was the reason. Now Im perplexed..

Just had this happen with my Mac Mini 16GB ram, 1TB hard drive, running Big Sur 11.2.3. I have had it just over 2 weeks now and this is the first time it has happened.

I don't have any hard drives connected and nothing plugged into the USB-C ports but I do have a Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 connected pretty much all the time, whether that caused it or not though is anyones guess.

It restarted and everything that was open opened up straight away, so I didn't have to wait for 5 minutes like some unfortunately seem to.