Big Sur is the most broken release from Apple

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Created Mar ’21

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Hey,

is there anything that works for you with Big Sur, on legacy Intel hardware or Apples M1?

I can't even shut down one of my Macs without a kernel panic occurring.

Feedback Assistant is useless as no bugs I reported are fixed and I never get a reply or a request for more informations.

Level 2 support takes hours to write everything in a ticket, only to have no one respond.

This Input field here on 'Ask a Question' doesn't show any text because it is broken.

Nothing seems to get fixed at Apple. Most of the bugs and kernel panics I encounter are in forums where people described them last year in the beta phase.

Is there a why to push Apple to increase the software quality?

Thanks,
Martin

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mnin OP

Mar ’21

E.g. Kernel Panics regarding shutting down the Mac, it never works for me without a kernel panic (which of course leads to a reboot instead of shutdown).

Can reproduce this KP on three different machines, directly after erasing them and install latest Big Sur version.

Occurs on Intel and M1 machines.

Opened a ticket via Feedback Assistant and via Support, nothing happens. Found other people which reported exactly the same issue. This error occurs since Big Sur Beta 3 last year.

panic(cpu 2 caller 0xfffffe00266b5e90): watchdog timeout: no checkins from watchdogd in 303 seconds (152 totalcheckins since monitoring last enabled), shutdown in progress
Debugger message: panic
Memory ID: 0xff
OS release type: User
OS version: 20D80
Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 20.3.0: Thu Jan 21 00:06:51 PST 2021; root:xnu-7195.81.3~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101
Fileset Kernelcache UUID: F78A48EC84D7C3283E7C6C67D00889A7
Kernel UUID: 9FE8C0DA-8ED0-381C-9CEC-2A779F3E1503
iBoot version: iBoot-6723.81.1
secure boot?: YES
Paniclog version: 13
KernelCache slide: 0x000000001bc44000
KernelCache base: 0xfffffe0022c48000
Kernel slide: 0x000000001c778000
Kernel text base: 0xfffffe002377c000
Kernel text exec base: 0xfffffe0023844000
mach_absolute_time: 0x93297e5294c
Epoch Time: sec usec
Boot : 0x6038c8d6 0x0006a837
Sleep : 0x6043c127 0x000520c1
Wake : 0x6043c1c0 0x00025f6d
Calendar: 0x6043c8dd 0x00025522

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Answer 2

Jackill OP

Aug ’21

PROBLEM.... SORT OF FIXED/REDUCED, Been having this problem just like everyone, noticed that it only crashed when things were idle, and once when it looked like it was going to crash I started to move the mouse and it came bace from the edge. I got the idea to try a "Mouse jiggle USB port mouse mover" which I turn on anytime I am away from my screen (The Jiggler I have has a built in power switch) and for the last 2 months it has not kernel panicked once when the Jiggler was on. This proves that it is a problem when things are Idle and Apple needs to fix this.

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