12.2 crash

I appreciate your position on this, and held that position until recently. If there were no threats to macOS, Apple wouldn't be releasing so many security updates to their platforms. The more popular Apple products become, the more appealing of a target they are. It doesn't cost much, and peace of mind is worth a bit.

That being said, I *DID* take the time to uninstall the Intego products just to see if that had any influence on my crashes. That action had no impact. Still crashes, generally after power saver for monitor kicks in after 60 minutes of inactivity.

Oddly, etrecheck showing an Intego executable "running" from a non-existent location on disc. "ps -ef" can't find that executable running either, so I have no idea where it gets its info from.

Any thoughts on the best way to back up to 12.1.2? Is there an installer out there somewhere? I really hate to open a support incident with Apple, as it would likely be pretty painful.

Thanks!

OK, here's the report, but I'm relatively techie and didn't see anything obvious. I'm starting to see the crashes start during automatic sleep after inactivity, and see the error pointing to USBMasStorage. As such, I've unchecked "Put discs to sleep when possible" and waiting until the timeout.

Let me know if you see anything else I'm missing. Since my previous posts, I've downloaded the full 12.2 install from the App Store, and run the installer. This time, I saw no crash during the installer.

Not an M1, it's Intel. And unfortunately, the issue wasn't the version of Virtualbox as I'd thought.

Attaching the "report to send to Apple" this time. Again, the panic entry from the logs is way to big.

Well, Etrecheck doesn't turn up anything really helpful, but noticed there was a crash report during the install of the 12.2 update.

"About this Mac" shows 12.2 installed, but would it be of any help to try and reinstall it from a manual download? Where to get that (I couldn't find it readily on Apple Download site)?

Thanks!

Yeah, I ain't gonna uninstall the Antivirus. Had it for many years, through many releases of OSX / macOS.

I saw the Seagate stuff and will get rid of it. That was for an old Time Machine external disk I've since gotten rid of.

And will get rid of Silverlight too (and yes, I too doubt that has anything to do with it).

Thanks for your help!

I didn't post this to discuss the nuances of antivirus on macOS, or to argue the need for such.

I'm having a crash situation that JUST started after the 12.2 update. All debugging information still points to some underlying problem with the OS, not coming close to mentioning antivirus, which has not caused a problem with any of my Macs since installed over 9 years ago.

Again, thanks for taking the time to try and help.

I'm not sure about where the battery icon of Preferences window is. Mine is a Mac Mini. All I have is Settings>Energy Saver. Pretty sure that should be on all Macs, but I could be wrong.

And thanks for the affirmation on endpoint protection, but I realized long ago that all of us have our own spin on what's important and what's not. To each their own.