I am having crashes on Sonoma 14.4.1 macOS watchdog kernel panics every 20 mins to 1 hour. On April 2 I updated Adobe Acrobat, I then updated my macbook pro (below) to 14.4.1 on Tuesday. I have had continuous kernel panics all week despite everything I've done to debug this until today. Looking through the update logs, I noticed on Apr 2 I installed Adobe Acrobat update. That's when all of this started happening. Looking through sys, panic, and crash logs, I noticed a couple things and turned off certain services to see if I could figure out which service was causing the kernel_panic. I saw references to panic for DYLD and I also found BAD MAGIC! errors in the Backtrace. Poking around I found more reference to DYL..D in the EtreCheckPro as part of creative services in the log.
So I stopped these services:
Adobe Content Synchronizer Finder Extension (491)
Creative Cloud Interprocess Service (647)
Creative Cloud Libraries Synchronizer (777)
I have plugged back in all my devices, displays, screens, etc. I haven't had a single kernel panic for 2 hours now. I am not sure what this means other than maybe the Adobe Acro update, and the latest Creative Cloud updates have issues with 14.4.1.
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro16,1
Processor Name: 8-Core Intel Core i9
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 16 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 32 GB
System Firmware Version: 2022.100.22.0.0 (iBridge: 21.16.4222.0.0,0)
OS Loader Version: 580~1678
AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB
Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB
32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4
2TB Physical Drive:
Device Name: APPLE SSD AP2048N
Media Name: AppleAPFSMedia
Medium Type: SSD
Protocol: PCI-Express
Internal: Yes
Partition Map Type: Unknown
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
Hope this helps some poor soul like me, who has pulled out their hair and lost countless work hours this week trying to figure it out.
-DM