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reitermoritz Author

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WindowServer crashing repeatedly since upgrade to Ventura

Since I upgraded my MacBook Pro (14 inch, 2021, M1 Pro) to Ventura (macOS 13.0 22A380), I repeatedly get logged out of macOS. After logging in I see a crash report for WindowServer.

This happens seemingly at random. Sometimes I can work for hours without a problem and at other times the WindowServer crashes about every two minutes which is severely disrupting and renders the MacBook unusable. As far as I can tell so far, the crashes don't correlate with any particular pattern in user activity or app usage and appear to be completely random.

I am using the MacBook with an external 4K LG display and other users on Reddit report that disconnecting the external display and only using the internal display remedies the crashes. But obviously this cannot be a proper solution.

Is anybody else experiencing this and/or knows about a better workaround then to forgo the use of an external display?

Posted on Oct 28, 2022 4:34 AM

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reitermoritz Author

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Posted on Dec 5, 2022 4:13 AM

Yeah, sounds like a default "first responder" response (see also "Old Toads" reply in this thread: WindowServer crashing repeatedly since up… - Apple Community).

It's especially funny (or useless), because this problem seems to only affect Apple Silicon Macs and, according to Macworld, they don't have SMC and don't provide a mechanism to reset NVRAM manually: https://www.macworld.com/article/224955/how-to-reset-a-macs-nvram-pram-and-smc.html

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