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WindowServer Crash causing Log Out

Good Morning,


I've been looking all over the internet for a cause and solution to my WindowServer crash that occurs on a daily basis after running some scheduled routines on my Mac Mini. My routine is basically a FileMaker schedule that runs to handles some file compression and moving. It runs across multiple Mac Minis as well and this Mac Mini is the only one to experience the crashes as of recently. I've looked through the Crash Logs and noticed consistency between logs.


My Crash Log can be viewed here: http://pastebin.com/2rxW2YXp


I'm seeing consistent crashes with the following:


  1. Thread 7 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos
  2. 0 libsystem_platform.dylib 0x00007fff94982080 _platform_memmove$VARIANT$Unknown + 224
  3. 1 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8d1ee102 CGBlt_copyBytes + 409
  4. 2 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8d5d92fd layer_blit_byte + 1421
  5. 3 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8d31e017 layer_blit_entry + 1084
  6. 4 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8d31dbd2 layer_blit_entry_block + 9
  7. 5 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff909d1e73 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
  8. 6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff909d4dc7 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 935
  9. 7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff909d4a1c _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91
  10. 8 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff918d9a9d _pthread_wqthread + 729
  11. 9 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff918d73dd start_wqthread + 13


Any insight would be appreciated. I saw reports of turning off the "Displays have separate Spaces" in the Mission Control helping, but in this case it has not.


Thank you,

TheTonberryKing

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Nov 20, 2015 8:42 AM

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Nov 20, 2015 3:50 PM in response to TheTonberryKing

That crash can be caused by running the Chrome or Chromium web browser with the "Google Hangouts" extension configured to stay on top of other windows.

If applicable, please make sure you have the latest version of both the browser and the extension. If so, remove the extension, or else quit the browser and run without it for a while. See whether there's an improvement.

WindowServer Crash causing Log Out

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