MacBook Pro with macOS Sonoma crashes frequently and randomly.

Update: I have solved the crashing issue: CLEARED THE CACHE IN SAFARI.

@stkitchin I turned off the new screen savers and went 24 hrs with no crash yet. Anyone else try this?

Let me guess: you imported everything from an older mac.

A clean install followed by migrating only the user accounts will easily restore sanity.

i solved disabling iCloud, my system is fast af and don't crash now ! i had every single problem listed in this topic, disable it and will does the trick

It is so frustrating that so many report ongoing problems.

FWIW, .3 fixed Sonoma for my M1 MB Air, conclusively. No crashes since the upgrade now many weeks ago.

One thing worth trying is Sonoma Cache Cleaner. MacOS aggregates data into caches, much like your browser caches web pages that you have viewed. These caches seem to be able to become corrupt. Over the last decade-and-a-half I've found clearing them has resolved many puzzling issues.

Three straight days since I removed all my widgets on my MacBook Air 15-inch, and still not a single crash. Tomorrow I will start adding them in, a couple at a time, to see if one or more caused the problem (at least in my case).

I've recently bought a Mac Studio, Studio Display and 8TB LaCie d2 Professional external hard disk from Apple Store to eventually replace a 2017 iMac. The Mac Studio came with Sonoma pre-installed so I continued to use it.

I connected the Studio Display to the Mac via the Thunderbolt cable and connected the LaCie disk to one of the downstream USB-C sockets on the back of the display. I use the LaCie disk mainly for Time Machine backups.

I've been steadily installing my apps and transferring my files across, having found that the change from Intel to M2 Max processor was possibly one step too far for the Migration Assistant. (I use Parallels Desktop and Docker Desktop and these didn't migrate well between processor families).

I've noticed a certain amount of "flakiness" in the operation of the new computer. Little things like mouse right-click didn't work reliably (Fusion360), my Bluetooth devices were forgotten, Time Machine got stuck and program settings weren't being saved between sessions. The final straw came when I couldn't enter my password to unlock the screen saver and had to forcibly power the computer off. Having found this thread, I tried downgrading to Ventura but found little or no improvement in behaviour.

I think the flakiness may be linked to unreliable disk I/O with the LaCie disk connected via the Studio display so I have moved its cable to one of the Thunderbolt connectors on the back of the Mac Studio. It's early days so far, but the system seems much more stable now.

I hope this helps.

I have a 2019 MacAir and had ongoing crashes daily; version 14.0 was the worst and 14.1 and 14.2 were only marginal improvement. About a week ago I switched the screen saver from the Sonoma back to Ventura view and haven't had a crash since. I have not loaded 14.2.1 and won't since now things at least don't crash. Sonoma is still slow and uses up way too much processor resources.

Regrets that I can't trust the system anymore.

2020 M1 MacBook Air

Hundreds (probably thousands) experiencing same problems. Since Sonoma update perpetual crashes. Totally useless and unstable. After two weeks of this I had to pay someone $300 to clear Sonoma out and reload Ventura - since when no problems. Class action?

closing the lid puts it to sleep and that can trigger the reboot.

At the time of hardware test, Apple said to first Time Machine backup, then manual backup of all files, then clean-disk, then reinstall OS, and then to install back each app manually from app store, and finally copy back all files, bookmarks etc. i.e .do not restore from Time Machine.

However, after I came home, I did embark on above, but I found my machine crashing right after the clean-disk and reinstall of OS. I did not even get to manual reinstall of apps and data. This clearly showed that it is the OS issue and not HW or even apps.

I have not really found the time to get back to Apple on this..instead decided to wait for 14.3 ...but seems like thats kaput as well.

is your reboot always throwing AMDFrameBufferVIP::SetPowerState error?

I hear you sfsmusique. If not done so yet, you can set your "Turn Display Off on Power Adapter" to never. This will prevent going to sleep automatically and therefore not have to reboot etc. Next up, you can (I have not tried it yet), downgrade you OS with instructions from here : https://macpaw.com/how-to/downgrade-macos-sonoma

That info isn't super helpful. It's the rest of the log that might have clues as to what is causing the crash.

Logs of any crashes and the like will be in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports FYI.

I too deleted all the widgets and so far no crashes.

Can someone please help verify, i was also crashing few times a day. Until i disabled “click to reveal desktop” , since disabling it has not crashed. A validation from some one else will help