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Random kernal panics in Catalina

My laptop is randomly freezing and I get a spinning wheel which then forces my mac to abruptly shut down. When I turn back on the mac I get kernel panic errors. When I ran a diagnosis I got a reference code of VDH002.

panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7fb0440a8d): watchdog timeout: no checkins from watchdogd in 98 seconds (126 total checkins since monitoring last enabled)

Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff819f713c40 : 0xffffff802f33bb2b 

0xffffff819f713c90 : 0xffffff802f4734d5 

0xffffff819f713cd0 : 0xffffff802f464f4e 

0xffffff819f713d20 : 0xffffff802f2e2a40 

0xffffff819f713d40 : 0xffffff802f33b217 

0xffffff819f713e40 : 0xffffff802f33b5fb 

0xffffff819f713e90 : 0xffffff802fad2b25 

0xffffff819f713f00 : 0xffffff7fb0440a8d 

0xffffff819f713f10 : 0xffffff7fb0440467 

0xffffff819f713f50 : 0xffffff7fb0455e76 

0xffffff819f713fa0 : 0xffffff802f2e213e 

   Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

     com.apple.driver.watchdog(1.0)[053A5D15-51D4-3E61-978B-EB435FA4BD0A]@0xffffff7fb043f000->0xffffff7fb0447fff

     com.apple.driver.AppleSMC(3.1.9)[8D698096-1F90-3679-8151-22A7665ED287]@0xffffff7fb0448000->0xffffff7fb0466fff

      dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[3D78401B-5D2D-33BC-9E41-DD2164EA874D]@0xffffff7fb0436000

      dependency: com.apple.driver.watchdog(1)[053A5D15-51D4-3E61-978B-EB435FA4BD0A]@0xffffff7fb043f000

      dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[ADD485B5-3EF8-37C4-B3C5-F86326E497A4]@0xffffff7fafd2f000





MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on May 14, 2021 3:14 AM

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Posted on May 14, 2021 4:24 AM

According to this Apple article the error means you may have a bad storage device:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203747

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Random kernal panics in Catalina

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