Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: gtr Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.systems Subject: Re: Since 12/29/2021 afternoon PST, MacBook Pro (MBP) froze hard twice minutes after waking up. Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 07:10:26 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 07:10:26 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="310723ee84ecb00960efec8f5a528089"; logging-data="26403"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18NMkjmTcJsmiOdJwT+ykMmYEnXo+mVF70=" User-Agent: Usenapp/1.17/l for MacOS - Full License Cancel-Lock: sha1:1eYhlvPJe7vOJlxmTej68ta9fcM= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:2238 comp.sys.mac.misc:8734 comp.sys.mac.portables:1477 comp.sys.mac.system:138366 On Jan 3, 2022 at 7:16:59 PM PST, "Ant" wrote: > In comp.sys.mac.portables gtr wrote: >> I started having issues in the end of December with Catalina 11.6.2. Found >> some disk errors and that wouldn't clean so I did this: > > Wait. Big Sur is v11.6. Catalina is v10.5. > > >> Wiped the internal SSD. >> Reinstalled the OS. >> Restored from Time Machine. > >> Sadly the crashes I was having continued. I think they were related to >> external software and 3rd party software that were making "suddenly illegal" >> attempt to get to Keychain Access or some such. I don't know, but they were >> SecurityAgent related, so I called Apple, got a novice, who knew *nothing*, a >> rare occurence. She was quick to see I was behind on the OS, so she wouldn't >> bump me to 2nd tier and recommended I move to Monterrey and was glad to be >> done with me. > >> What the hell, I did. It works great now, no issues at all. > >> I was having some kind of issues a year or two ago, mostly with midi, audio >> recording and Logic Pro X; I forget the details. I got to 2nd tier support and >> they guy was really into home audio production so I learned a lot as we slowly >> went about addressing my issues. He recommended I reinstall the OS, which I >> was reluctant to do. He was really blithe about the whole thing, while I was >> generally nervous. He told me he reinstalled the OS frequently "every month or >> two", he said. What the hell for? It just keeps things neat and tidy. > >> Honestly. Since then I've run into a few inscrutable issues, reinstalled the >> OS and was surprised to see them vaporize. > > Weird. You could had tried a clean OS reinstall before migrating your > datas back into it first. I did. It didn't solve my issues. My basic punchline is that a clean OS reinstall isn't so fearful a thing, and that it can address a lot of issues. In fact, with my first attempt it did seem to knock down the errors I was getting but a lot. But not enough.