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Mac Pro 2019 Kernel Panic - Can anyone see any clues? TIA!

Can anyone better at reading crash reports than me give me any clues on this KP?


I was running a zoom call and downloading some sample content at the time so nothing really that strenuous.


This Mac has recently had full hardware diagnostics run by apple and I was assured that there were no HW issues inside the Mac at least.



Mac Pro, macOS 12.3

Posted on Nov 12, 2024 12:08 PM

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Nov 12, 2024 2:09 PM in response to StuartFoxMusic

I agree with IdrisSeabright, once is no big deal. If you occurs frequently the next step would be to post the free EtreCheck report to identify any software conflicts. The report contains no personal information and provides much more detail about processes that you have on your computer and other diagnostic logs that may be related.

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Nov 12, 2024 3:03 PM in response to StuartFoxMusic

A “spinlock” is a feature that protects against 2 resources conflicting with each other. One resource creates a lock to protect data the app is updating. A 2nd resource wants to access that resource, so it keeps trying over and over testing the lock, and when it has tried a number of times it gives up and cancels the request. If it was a critical MacOS resource that it needed it forces a crash (Panic) of MacOS to generate a diagnostic file for Apple engineers to analyze. If it was a non-critical system task it just force crashes the app.


To tell the difference, did the whole Mac crash, or just the app?

Mac Pro 2019 Kernel Panic - Can anyone see any clues? TIA!

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