Sequoia causing iMac to crash instead of sleeping and will not turn back on

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I too have been experiencing regular crashes on my Mac Studio M2 Ultra with Sequoia 15.0.1. I keep getting this error "I've attempted booting in Safe Model a few times, but my Mac reverts back to a standard start-up.

Does anyone know what I'm supposed to do here. Should I take this to the store and have them check it out?

MarioOZav wrote:

I too have been experiencing regular crashes on my Mac Studio M2 Ultra with Sequoia 15.0.1. I keep getting this error "

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/419b5b24-7ec6-40fa-9d43-a10a934cbf49

I've attempted booting in Safe Model a few times, but my Mac reverts back to a standard start-up.

Does anyone know what I'm supposed to do here. Should I take this to the store and have them check it out?

Have you attempted to troubleshoot any USB problems by:

• Eliminating any port hubs
• Reduce the number of devices connected
• Switching cables to determine if a cable is bad
• Using different ports on your Mac Studio

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I also had to reinstall in recovery mode. Some of the issues with Sequoia 15.0.1 were resolved, but the continual crashing of my iMac wasn't. It crashes about 3 times daily while I'm in the middle of working on documents. Since I didn't have time to save my work, it was all lost. Why can't Apple resolve this issue??

I too have the same 2020 Intel iMac and had the exact same problem after upgrading to Sequoia. Seems it will not wake up from sleeping. The only thing that seemed to clear the problem for me is to disable the sleep mode in system settings. In System Settings/Energy I turned ON "prevent automatic sleeping when the display is off" and just in case I turned OFF "Enable Power Nap".

I also went into System Setting/Lock Screen and set "Turn display off when inactive" to NEVER. Not sure I needed to do all that but it is not crashing since. You can still use the screen saver function and of course this will use more energy but I did not want to take a chance of losing any data as I use a ton of production software. Also keep a recent back up with time machine on an external drive to play it safe. They really need to fix this issue.

I was having the same problem on my MAC with Sequoia 15.0.1. None of the fixes suggested helped. Then I updated to Sequoia 15.1 and my MAC hasn't crashed since. It seems that the update fixed the problem. Have any of you had the same experience? Give it a try!

I have since reset the System Settings/Screen Saver back to a designated time (In my case 30 minutes). The screen saver was just too much to be on constantly. That didn't matter anyway. The key is that it does not go into a sleep mode so I kept the Energy section set to- ON "prevent automatic sleeping when the display is off" and OFF "Enable Power Nap". I have not had the problem again since I set those. I did just receive a notification for an update to the Sequoia software so hopefully this problem will be addressed.

I started having this same issue a couple of days ago.

Running Sequoia 15.1 (24B83) on a MBPro 2023 Apple M2 Max 64GB. It's always connected to power, and I only have an external hard drive connected via a USB-C dock.

The first time I thought it was random, but then it kept happening every morning and everytime the computer goes to sleep mode.

I'm not really sure what to think =(

This is my last crash report:

Since your iMac is running Apple's Boot Camp, is it safe to assume that you have an older Intel-based Mac? As such, which exact model is it? What version of macOS was it running before upgrading it to macOS Sequoia?

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xfffffff00e4c3fc4): x86 CPU CATERR detected

CATERR = catastrophic error. This would indicate a serious hardware issue with either your Mac's CPU or Logic Board. Whether or not, it was exasperated by upgrading to macOS Sequoia, I don't know.

I'm just telling you what that kernel panic would indicate. Why don't you contact Apple Support directly and discuss it with them on your next steps to get this resolved? To do so, simply select the "Support" link on the lower left-hand side of this forum's web page.

Hi, did you find a fix for this. I'm experiencing the same or similar issue on my Macbook Air M3 after updating from Sequoia 15 to 15.0.1. When I close the lid, the MacBook fully crashes and won't turn on until I hold down shift-control-option-power for 10 seconds and then press the power button. Same issue occurs on Safe mode as well. However, I don't get any crash reports and instead have diagnostic reports like this:

{"os_version":"macOS 15.0.1 (24A348)","bug_type":"115","timestamp":"2024-10-06 10:20:54.00 +1100","name":"Reset count","roots_installed":0,"incident_id":"AA42E4AC-2F19-43CF-AFA3-80DF9B50E629"}

Incident Identifier: AA42E4AC-2F19-43CF-AFA3-80DF9B50E629

CrashReporter Key: 30FFD843-8B38-B982-3EAD-E5F23F8A7BE7

Date: 2024-10-06 10:20:54.63 +1100

Reset count: 0

Boot failure count: 4

Boot faults: rst btn_rst,btn_seq_reset

Boot stage: 0x40

Boot app: 0

socId: 8122

socRevision: 20

Thanks for sharing what worked for you but man, that's a lot of cumbersome workaround. But on the plus side, it will be an excuse for me to go to Cover Flow if I ever have to use the strategy you describe!