Macbook air M1 wakes up to a black screen and a kernel panic after sleep

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Macbook air M1 wakes up to a black screen and a kernel panic after sleep

Almost daily, when I leave my macbook air M1 (BigSur) in sleep mode over night, it wakes up to a black screen showing only a mouse cursor which moves, but nothing else shows up on the screen. I need to restart the computer manually every time.

When the computer restarts it displays a message showing that a kernel panic has occurred. Here is the full log:

Panic log

It seems I don't have any non-apple kexts active, and the error seems to be related to bluetooth. The only bluetooth device I use regularly is a magic trackpad 2.

I think this has been happening since the update to 11.3, but I'm not 100% sure. Now I'm running 11.5.

Posted on Sep 15, 2021 9:07 AM

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DiZoE

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Sep 15, 2021 8:04 PM in response to dmbfm

Hey there!

Do you keep any external devices connected while this happens?

If not, and I don’t have all the details, but I may run a disk repair:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210898

You may have also followed these steps:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200553

Hope one of those steps helps or at least isolates a possible cause, old kext extensions is a good place to look as you did.

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Sep 15, 2021 7:26 PM in response to dmbfm

Please update to the latest macOS 11.6. Then hold Shift+Option and click on the Control Center icon on the menu bar top-right next to Siri icon. Click on Bluetooth. There will be an option to reset the Bluetooth Module and Reset Apple Devices to factory. Apply both. Shutdown the Mac completely powered off. Turn off the power switch on the bluetooth trackpad. Boot the laptop up and login. Turn the power on the external Magic Trackpad. It should reconnect. See how things go for a few days.

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Macbook air M1 wakes up to a black screen and a kernel panic after sleep

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