Does a Mac mini require a keyboard or mouse to be connected ?

We have a Mac mini that we use for automated software builds. Earlier this year it got moved to a dedicated room that has an ethernet connection.

Once it was moved to that room, it has had 2 kernel panics and forced us to boot in safe mode, logged in without issues.

Booted in regular mode and the mini crashed.

Booted in recovery mode, did not perform any recovery actions

Booted in regular mode and successfully logged in using the account we normally use.

We remoted to it later and was presented with a dialog indicating that the computer had restarted.

This computer has never had anything other than a monitor, keyboard and mouse attached to it.

Now that it's in a server room, it doesn't even have that unless we physically need to touch it.

This machine ran underneath my desk for 2+ years, but it did have a monitor, keyboard and mouse attached to it.

Here is the beginning of the dump that I was presented with, basically I'm trying to determine if it HAS to have a keyboard and mouse connected to it.

panic(cpu 4 caller 0xffffff8007d7e99f): userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from remoted since load

service returned not alive with context : is_alive_func returned unhealthy : device not connected (code: 0x2

service: logd, total successful checkins since load (180 seconds ago): 19, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago

service: remoted, no successful checkins since load (180 seconds ago)

service: opendirectoryd, total successful checkins since load (180 seconds ago): 18, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago

Panicked task 0xffffff8b6c33b6d0: 4 threads: pid 132: watchdogd

Backtrace (CPU 4), panicked thread: 0xffffff9505bf1000, Frame : Return Address

0xfffffff586e03690 : 0xffffff800487befd

0xfffffff586e036e0 : 0xffffff80049de636

0xfffffff586e03720 : 0xffffff80049cd9a3

0xfffffff586e03770 : 0xffffff800481ba70

0xfffffff586e03790 : 0xffffff800487c2cd

0xfffffff586e038b0 : 0xffffff800487ba86

0xfffffff586e03910 : 0xffffff8005114a43

0xfffffff586e03a00 : 0xffffff8007d7e99f

0xfffffff586e03a10 : 0xffffff8007d7e5f2

0xfffffff586e03a30 : 0xffffff8007d7d971

0xfffffff586e03b60 : 0xffffff80050831bc

0xfffffff586e03cc0 : 0xffffff80049842f6

0xfffffff586e03dd0 : 0xffffff8004856a2b

0xfffffff586e03e60 : 0xffffff800486d339

0xfffffff586e03ef0 : 0xffffff80049b060a

0xfffffff586e03fa0 : 0xffffff800481c256

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.driver.watchdog(1.0)[E3591363-691A-3326-92CD-1ED0B43F15B5]@0xffffff8007d7c000->0xffffff8007d7efff

Process name corresponding to current thread (0xffffff9505bf1000): watchdogd

Boot args: chunklist-security-epoch=0 -chunklist-no-rev2-dev

Mac OS version:

21G531

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Thu Mar 9 20:08:59 PST 2023; root:xnu-8020.240.18.700.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: DFAC8C3A-BB7E-3E0A-9BC7-19B8D1B9A2A0

KernelCache slide: 0x0000000004600000

KernelCache base: 0xffffff8004800000

Kernel slide: 0x0000000004610000

Kernel text base: 0xffffff8004810000

__HIB text base: 0xffffff8004700000

System model name: Macmini8,1 (Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C)

System shutdown begun: NO

Hibernation exit count: 0