MacBook Pro with macOS Sonoma crashes frequently and randomly.

i have no really words on Sonoma. It keeps crashing and crashing thousands of times at day on every app. This is on m2 pro, before the upgrade all running 100% fine. It's such a shame. I have really no words how shi**y this os is.

No. As someone mentioned i discovered the problem: it's that **** iCloud. I disabled it and now the system is another system, fast, no crash at all. 4 hours has passed so fingers crossed. But before i had crash at every 10 minutes , on every application, often when you used the virtual desktops. So i think the problem is indeed iCloud

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

This will get rid of all the old agents and daemons that may have been installed, perhaps a decade ago.

・After moving "the user accounts (not applications, settings, or other files)", if I restore the application from Time Machine, will the past settings be restored?

・Should I re-download the application from AppStore etc. instead of Time Machine?

LocaAlicia wrote:

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

This will get rid of all the old agents and daemons that may have been installed, perhaps a decade ago.

・After moving "the user accounts (not applications, settings, or other files)", if I restore the application from Time Machine, will the past settings be restored?

・Should I re-download the application from AppStore etc. instead of Time Machine?

I recommend downloading from the App Store.

LocaAlicia - please post how this goes for you, hopefully well! ✅🤞🏼

Unfortunately I still don't have a functional iCloud Drive after going thru these steps... 😐

(but the finder is not crashing anymore)

Mac mini, Sonoma Lock Screen doesn’t load and when it does load it works for 10 min. Then when the screensavers come on the computer refuses to wake properly it always crashes and makes me restart the computer.

Wow, I thought I was alone in this issue. I have a 2023 14in MacBook Pro, so it is pretty new. I thought it was a marvel of engineering with zero defects, until Sonoma update. Now it is crashing once a day. It is impossible to speak with apple support... "restart you computer...", "did you install any new software...", I can't go though those questions. We are not idiots, obviously as a developer we have done all due diligence before calling support. It is clearly an issue with the new OS rollout... I hope it is fixed soon.

I too have been having this issue with Sonoma every day since begining of October 2023 - my mbp is a 2018 Macbook Pro 15" with Intel chips and touchbar.

I put it to sleep the previous night, and in the morning, when I wake it, it restarts, prompts for password (twice now, with Sonoma), and then pretty much restarts with always same error message that starts with "AMDFrameBufferVIB::SetPowerState"...and then the error log with last started kext "BHIDKeyBoard"..etc.

For the benefit of everyone else here, let me say that I have tried everything, to no use. Hardware checked OK at Apple store. Then I erased disk fully, and reinstalled Sonoma (at the time it was 14.1), removed all peripharals (just couple of ext monitors), and did nothing else. My laptop still crashed with same errors and same repro patterns. This led me to conclude that it is related to OS only. Since then, I restored my laptop back from timemachine, updated to 14.2.1 and of course still same issue every day.

I have to say, during the days of 14.0 and 14.1 and even 14.2, in addition to the daily crash-on-wake problem, the OS would also hang randomly through the day causing me to restart. However, with 14.2.1, this problem is gone. So, once I get past the every morning crash-on-wake problem, (then rearrange ALL the windows), I am good to go till I manually put it to sleep again.

I am hoping 14.3 will be the one to make Jobs proud again...but lets see.

13" Intel Mac Pro 2019. Since I updated Ventura to Sonoma, it reboots randomly. It normally happens when I leave the laptop on without using it. It gets more and more frequent.

These days if I close the laptop, it reboots. Occasionally it crashes while I am using.

Even in safe mode, it crashes. The diagnostic checks said 'no issues'.

I made several phone calls with the Mac support team. I did everything they suggested (e.g. resetting RAMs, deleting caches files, test a different user, reinstallation). No use. The recent Sonoma update couldn't solve this issue.

The apple support team recommended reinstallation, claiming that this is not an OS issue as it does not happen to all the Sonoma users. However, I am hesitating, as I have already done once.

If this does not happen to all Sonoma users and this is not a hardware issue, what could be the cause?

I am losing my faith to Apple's product.

In addition, my Touch Bar is flickering sometimes. If there is anyone who knows how to fix this, please let me know. I'm not sure if it is related to the crash issue mentioned above.

I'm having similar issues with my 2018 MBP except from Touch Bar flickering.

Did you try to revive the T2 security chip? You will need another Mac with Sonoma for that.

One thing I noticed is that it does not crash frequently when I don't put it in power. I also removed the VPN software and some other outdated apps. These affected the frequency although it is still having same issues.

The same thing is happening to my Macbook Pro 2020 M1, I was a bit late in the game and upgraded last month (Jan 2024) without knowing this was going to happen. It crashes every day now, twice a day. I don't know what to do next and wish I didn't upgrade.

What do you mean by .3 ?

asking because while I don't really have daily crashes, new install of Sonoma on new m1max, I do have weird problems with terrain in uneralengine on this machine, thinking of resorting to what was installed on this studio machine to begin with Monterey,or Ventura, don't recall,,anyway...I hope moving backwards would fix my engine. problems, but before I do , I'd rather have an idea of the chance, it will.

cheers

Hi jagato00 , thanks for the posting.

my experience is very similar..although, I have experienced 'crash-on-wake' with my lid closed as well (with two external monitors connected, as well as disconnected).

I did the hardware test in Apple store and they said it was fine. More importantly, this crash was not happening until the last but one release of Venture. I remember this started on the last release of Venture..and I have been upgrading to each new release thinking it will make this go away, but not.

Currently I am on 14.2.1..waited eagerly for 14.3 but too wary to upgrade. I have the daily "crash on wake" issue for sure. Additionally, I get occassional freezing of macbook during usage..in the middle of the day.