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So I have a from new 15” Late 2013 Macbook Pro. In the last month or so I have been plagued by random black screen kernel panics and restarts. There doesn’t exactly seem to be any rhyme or reason to the crashes. I can push it quite hard in Davinci Resolve or with multiple large tiff files in photoshop at the same time without any issues but then it might crash while just browsing a webpage or watching youtube. If I can hear my fans spinning up or the MBP getting hot it might crash but not always, at least 50% of the time it will continue working fine until it crashes after everything has calmed down at a later point. I have tried replicating the problem but there doesn’t seem to be any real pattern or anything that sets it off. The only reasonably consistent pattern is when it wakes up after hibernation, it will often kernel panic and black screen crash at that point but even that isn’t consistent. It is really starting to become annoying as I use my MBP for extensive photo editing and colour grading and crashes mid operation is very frustrating. I previously attached my Etrecheck report but that seems to make my post get marked as spam. So instead I have included an excerpt relating to the kernel panic section. I can post the rest of the report if needed. at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch com.box.filesystems.osxfuse com.codexdigital.driver.usbDockDriver com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard com.sony.driver.dsccamDeviceInfo00 com.sony.driver.sxsus10drivers com.sony.driver.sxsxqddrivers com.sony.scsi.SR-D1 Although these are all programs or support files that I have had installed for many years, albeit they have been updated at various points. I have tried uninstalling a few items but most of them I absolutely need. I am willing to go back to an older version if absolutely necessary, or even remove for testing. Although as I mentioned i have been using most of these programs for years. Any advice that can be suggested would be greatly appreciated.
pacesupport.snowleopard is a very old extension! I think you may have a memory leak which is causing your system to crash out. As much as you want to you’ll need to decide whats more important! I would backup your drive and using an external bootable OS installer drive reformat your internal and install a fresh copy of your OS - stick with Mojave! Now only install your newer apps and look for updates anything that’s not supported under Sierra or Mojave leave off. Is the system stable now? Even though you have a sizable SSD you’re usage may require more disk space than you have! This is very true with video editing and color correction of a video (Davinci Resolve). So between these two issues you need to use Activity Monitor and track your RAM & Storage usage.
