Ventura 13.2.1 (22D68) crashing nightly

Hello Jon Hill,

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Cheers.

G'Day Jon

Having exact same problem with MACOS Ventura crashing whenever the iMAC is idle. Called support yesterday and while person was very friendly trying to help, we only ended up rebooting into 'safe mode', however it crashed again this morning. I have several suspects (in my mind?):

1) Crashes only happened when VMW-Fusion 12 was running > removed v12 and installed v13 = not sure if cause or fixed?

2) Also suspected MS-RDP and uninstalled = latest crash there after though;

3) Also suspected Samsung 2TB SSD on exFAT = just trying to copy data to another disk then reformat to APFS;

4) Following latest crash rebooted into 'recovery mode', however mouse & keyboard (both on bluetooth) went dead and couldn't follow up on screen options;

At this stage all a guessing/testing game with no concrete results or fix? ... pretty annoying though and would like to get back to 'normal' ...

My computer keeps crashing too every since i installed ventura 13.2.1.

I have an imac 3.7 6 core i5

Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

I never had this problem prior.

Hi Jon Hill,

It's good to see you were able to find a solution and posted about it for others that may encounter the same issue. If you find that the issue returns, you can always return back to this post or post again in the Apple Support Communities.

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Thanks for your time.

Cheers!

Same thing here; Ventura 13.2.1, 13 inch 2020 four thunderbolt 3 ports. 2Ghz 4 core i5.

Started getting issues with Ventura. Same as decribed above.

After clean install, the problems stay the same. Closing mac at night, in the morning mac starts from cold boot and says it crashed in the night. It always does it.

Any solutions yet or should I downgrade?

Regards,

Jaco

I'm having the same problem; it crashes nightly. Looking at the crash data it seem its coming from the energy save options. Since I'm running an iMac, I turn everything off; still happens. The OS is unusable. I do have an external drive connected as well. Is Apple aware and have they replicated this issue? if so, when is a fix coming?

I'm having the same issue with crashes after updating OS to Ventura. It crashes within about an hour of internet usage, sometimes 5 times a day and in quick succession. Would love some input on how to move forward with finding a solution. I've had this computer since 2018 without any crashing issues.

I have recently installed Ventura 13.6.3 on a brand new SSD drive to run my 2017 21" iMac. The improvement in performance has been amazing, except OS Ventura keeps freezing, rebooting unexpectedly, sometimes with no software in actual use(some apps are open but not being used) This also happens sometimes when it wakes up after sleeping. I have tried re-installing Ventura, but the problem persists. Each time, I send the crash report to Apple. I know the logistics are tremendous, but it would be nice to get something back from Apple to explain why it is crashing. I can't see how rebooting in Safe Mode helps. Are you supposed to run your iMac continually in Safe Mode?

I have issues similar to this as well but I don't have Parallels installed on my PC. My browsers and apps crash regularly, would this process work for me as well?

I've tried to run the First Aid vis Disk Utility, this is the error I used to get.