The panic log tells you it was a SEP Panic. What’s the SEP, and how is this different from any other panic? And what should you do about it?
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You discover your Mac has either restarted itself and is waiting for you to log in, or has simply shut itself down. How to find out why this happened, in Intel and Apple silicon.
How to save the panic log safely. Looking up the immediate cause of the panic, getting OS details, what to see in a memory leak, what task resulted in the panic, and 3rd party kernel extensions.
Your Mac unexpectedly restarts, and a little after logging in you see a Panic Alert. Before sending that to Apple, save a copy and follow this guidance, including how to read a panic log.
How we crashed and burned with the best of them, from recovery disks in classic Mac OS, to unexpected restarts and hidden panic logs.
A strategy for diagnosing problems using the log. How to limit the number of entries shown using appropriate periods and predicates, and more.
How to capture the panic log, immediate actions likely to help make a diagnosis, and how to read the panic log.
Why you should keep a copy of the Panic Log. How to check that your Mac isn’t the cause. And above all, don’t panic.
Apps may crash, but kernels panic. Don’t accept your Mac just panics often. It should never panic at all, and more than one panic a year needs to be properly investigated and reported.
Handling errors means more than a couple of jargon phrases and a magic number. Designing for error requires the user to be at its centre.
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