MacBook Pro with macOS Sonoma crashes frequently and randomly.

Thats a good point, Barney. I was told by Apple genius that backing up to Time Machine and restoring back from it could actually make sure we still carry the stuff that makes it crash..so, probably it should be tested before Time Machine restore, or alternately manual backup and restore would work.

Anycase, 14.4 is out (at least for my 2018 Intel mac) as of this morning..and I updated..I will not say anything about performance for a few days.

Agree to disagree...

Did you do a clean install or did you upgrade? How long have you been upgrading over? Some people have upgraded in place since like El Capitan...

I have Intel CPU and no crash for over a week now. It sleeps and wakes up with no crash. Looks like the new screensaver is buggy as expected with new major releases of macOS.

If your mac is a week old and is crashing frequently, there could be a hardware issue. Take advantage of the 14 day window and return it.

Happening here too on a 2020 M1 MacBook Air soon after Sonoma install. No unusual installed software. Twice when sitting in idle. Once just now when browsing a boring Safari page. The previous Mac OS has been so stable for so many years - this is disturbing! I'm glad not to be running some important real time app...

Upgraded a MacBook Pro 16” Intel 2019 to Sonoma a week ago. Hasn’t stayed up longer than 45 minutes since then. Have filed detailed crash reports repeatedly. At the user level, the machine was not running anything other than a zsh script to log the date every 60s. Fastest crash so far was 5m. With my screen saver set to 15m, I think that’s a red herring. At least 5 crashes/hangs when attempting to do something and the screen saver didn’t kick in.

The number 164 is, of course, circumstancial, so if you want to do this and not have to figure out which number loginwindow happens to be, in each case, you might try instead:

ps -ax -o "rss,wq,command" | grep loginwindow

After frequent crashes immediately after installing Sonoma, I eventually wrote a zsh script to log uptime and the 'top' status (previously posted). Since it is a random amount of time before my machine will hang or crash, it is essentially unusable to do anything productive so all these times in the chart below are with the machine idle of user-level applications running: Reboot, login, do nothing but wait, crash, repeat. Average is 74 minutes. Well loaded MacBook 2019 Intel with no devices attached. Sometimes no WiFi either. Just a MacBook sitting there with Sonoma doing a bunch of stuff behind the scenes until it crashes. Sure, it could be Dropbox or Adobe Creative Cloud doing stuff in the background but the machine was rock solid with Ventura and all these apps before the "upgrade".

FYI:

My many crashes were all with dynamic wallpaper off. Upon installation, I quickly reverted to my old lovely still of the Minnesota canoe wilderness.

Another crash last night - bright pink screen while reading some boring Safari site, then POOF!

I just submitted the bug report, as suggested, and have cleared the Safari cache.

All these are about kernel panics. That is what they have in common.

All kernel panic reports look similar, but there is no indication as to whether the causes are related or not. You may find a lot more like these. A kernel panic is a kernel panic, and it may be caused by many different hardware or software issues.

Lots of crashing here on a Mac Studio after upgrading from Monterey to Sonoma 14.1. I see a lot of people with the issue, in my case it’s related it IO. Apple needs to stop this year OS upgrade cycle, they can’t maintain it.

I have a MacBook Air 15-inch with an M2 chip that I got when it launched a few months ago, so it's not just laptops with the M1 that are having this problem. It regularly locks up, screen goes purplish, as it crashes on Sonoma with a very similar message at the top of the crash as others are getting. Here are 3 recent ones (note that the cpu number is different on these, though I've gotten many with cpu 0, 2, etc.):

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xfffffe001768f158): "skr.umd.upipe:578:com.apple.bluetooth.Pipe": skr 0x0xfffffe1b62315400 sg 0x0xfffffe24efe9b6b8 (idx 1) unable to satisfy mandatory allocation

panic(cpu 2 caller 0xfffffe00246a76d0): "skr.ubft.fsw_2:16": skr 0x0xfffffe16727ba000 sg 0x0xfffffe24e7eacb68 (idx 1) unable to satisfy mandatory allocation

panic(cpu 4 caller 0xfffffe002411b6d0): "skr.ustats.stats-0.Safari.3577": skr 0x0xfffffe24fe055200 sg 0x0xfffffe24fe03d508 (idx 0) unable to satisfy mandatory allocation

Although I'm a simple user, I'm fairly sure this isn't a hardware issue. Anecdotal only, but my M1 chip mini Mac crashes at least daily now after Sonoma (usually at some point overnight), while my other machine (with an intel chip) hasn't crashed at all after updating.

macbook pro 15" intel i9

nombreux crash en fonctionnement au réveil et durant la veille.

clean install sans succès. crash sans presque aucun soft installé

crash sans accessoire connecté

à chaque rapport d'erreur :

panic(cpu 4 caller 0xffffff8004c5c89b): userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from WindowServer (2 induced crashes) in 120 seconds...

...

Panicked task 0xffffff86bf6c09d8: 3 threads: pid 106: watchdogd

Backtrace (CPU 4), panicked thread: "