I've taken to shutting the machine down or rebooting when I un-dock instead of just sleeping for now.
I have had 0 crashes since.
Not ideal, but at least it somewhat confirms that the machine is fine after a reboot re-initialises everything.
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Anyone else experiencing crashes on the M4 Pro Mini?
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I've taken to shutting the machine down or rebooting when I un-dock instead of just sleeping for now.
I have had 0 crashes since.
Not ideal, but at least it somewhat confirms that the machine is fine after a reboot re-initialises everything.
I'm running crossover on m4 max to run a few things and haven't had any crashes yet.
Diablo 2 remaster and Witcher 3.
I did exactly this, waited 2 weeks for a new one and the same thing is happening. Same specs.
Connected a Toshiba USB hard disk and after that a regular USB stick (on one of the front USB-C ports) for some manual file copies. When everything was finished I disconnected everything and suddenly my Monitor connected by Thunderbolt was going black and I had to long press the power button on my Mac mini to turn it off. But turning it on again still didn't display anything, the monitor didn't get any input signal. Turned the Mac mini and also the monitor off again and disconnected/reconnected the Thunderbolt cable from the monitor. After that and turning the Mac mini on again all was normal again. Weird.
But this time I didn't see any "SOCD report detected" error message. I didn't see any error message at all.
It COULD be the USB-to-USB-C adapter I'm using - but on the other hand it also happened when I connected a Samsung T7 USB-C hard disk. But file copy was always without problems. Weird behavior started after disconnecting the external media, not immediately but within a short period of time.
Nevertheless it seems only disconnecting external USB hard disks causing crashes - and not connecting one. While regular work or gaming no crash at all. I have an external Adata SE920 USB4 drive connected all the time without problems - but I can imagine if I unmount the volumes and disconnect the drive from the USB port the Mac mini could crash again.
Next time I'm using any external device I'll turn the iMac off when connecting and disconnecting. Let's see if that helps. But it's inconvenient as I often copy files to USB sticks...
The console shows (but don't know if this is related):
{"os_version":"macOS 15.2 (24C101)","bug_type":"115","timestamp":"2024-12-21 16:36:53.00 +0100","name":"Reset count","roots_installed":0,"incident_id":"2B2897DB-76E6-43FB-9C3D-E95EEA8E734F"}
Incident Identifier: 2B2897DB-76E6-43FB-9C3D-E95EEA8E734F
CrashReporter Key: 57209527-B575-4EF2-2201-132D321D0793
Date: 2024-12-21 16:36:53.09 +0100
Reset count: 0
Boot failure count: 1
Boot faults: rst btn_rst,btn_seq_reset target_off_restart
Boot stage: 0x40
Boot app: 0
socId: 6040
socRevision: 11
But this time I didn't see any "SOCD report detected" error message. I didn't see any error message at all.
It COULD be the USB-to-USB-C adapter I'm using - but on the other hand it also happened when I connected a Samsung T7 USB-C hard disk. But file copy was always without problems. Weird behavior started after disconnecting the external media, not immediately but within a short period of time.
Nevertheless it seems only disconnecting external USB hard disks causing crashes - and not connecting one. While regular work or gaming no crash at all. I have an external Adata SE920 USB4 drive connected all the time without problems - but I can imagine if I unmount the volumes and disconnect the drive from the USB port the Mac mini could crash again.
Next time I'm using any external device I'll turn the iMac off when connecting and disconnecting. Let's see if that helps. But it's inconvenient as I often copy files to USB sticks...
The console shows (but don't know if this is related):
{"os_version":"macOS 15.2 (24C101)","bug_type":"115","timestamp":"2024-12-21 16:36:53.00 +0100","name":"Reset count","roots_installed":0,"incident_id":"2B2897DB-76E6-43FB-9C3D-E95EEA8E734F"}
Incident Identifier: 2B2897DB-76E6-43FB-9C3D-E95EEA8E734F
CrashReporter Key: 57209527-B575-4EF2-2201-132D321D0793
Date: 2024-12-21 16:36:53.09 +0100
Reset count: 0
Boot failure count: 1
Boot faults: rst btn_rst,btn_seq_reset target_off_restart
Boot stage: 0x40
Boot app: 0
socId: 6040
socRevision: 11
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I think I found the cause of the problem: I always used the menubar app "Mountain" (https://appgineers.de/mountain/). I think this was causing the problem. I deinstalled it and didn't get any crash again until now. Let's see if it stays that way.
The people complaining are likely a very small percentage of users. People happy with their Mac minis mostly aren't out on the forums non-complaining. I've had mine since launch day and it's never crashed once.
I am seeing this recently. I am on MacMini MacOS 15.1.1
I believe it's the same bug as here:
github.com
I only see this when running Docker images. I walk away and come back and "It's Dead, Jim."
I believe it's when it drops into Sleep Mode.
I am under warrenty but I don't have any concerns. (IE: I'm not returning it).
It's not a hardware problem. It looks like a software issue and will likely be resolved with a patch to 15.2 - or when vendors catch up with M4 Pro (possibly a recompile of third party software will resolve it.)
I believe it's the same bug as here:
Corretto 21 hard crash within Docker container on Apple M4 / macOS 15.2 Processors (aarch64) · Issue #85 · corretto/corretto-21
Describe the bug Cannot launch Corretto 21 "java" process within a Docker container running on an Apple M4 processor, running macOS 15.2. To Reproduce `$ docker exec --rm -ti ubuntu:24.04 bash" # a...
github.com
I only see this when running Docker images. I walk away and come back and "It's Dead, Jim."
I believe it's when it drops into Sleep Mode.
I am under warrenty but I don't have any concerns. (IE: I'm not returning it).
It's not a hardware problem. It looks like a software issue and will likely be resolved with a patch to 15.2 - or when vendors catch up with M4 Pro (possibly a recompile of third party software will resolve it.)
I'm having the same problem. I load No Man's Sky, choose my save, then we go through the stars while the save loads. Then when the screen fades to white, the computer restarts. Has anyone found a solution yet? I also have a Mini M4 Pro running 15.1
Why don’t you update Sequoia? Everybody knows the first releases had these bugs, so this is no news. What would be news is if this was happening to you with the latest Sequoia update installed.