Here's a problem that has been annoying me for more than a month.
I bought my iMac in October, restored from my Time Machine backup, and had very little issue with the system; the only annoyance was that one of my external drives (the one housing Time Machine and one other partition) would often disconnect some time during suspend mode, but that was it. For a bit more than a month, I'll often return to my computer to find it at the account selection screen, with the message that "your system has recovered from a serious error" awaiting me when I log in.
This was happening daily. I've tried quitting all programs before entering suspend mode, which seems to make it so that I can go for up to four days without experiencing that crash, but it still happens. I've tried to determine if there was a recent program installation or upgrade, or hardware change, that may have caused this, but I can't pinpoint anything. It started happening with OS X 10.11.3 or .4, I believe, and upgrading to 10.11.5 didn't change the behavior.
One thing I've noticed that changed is that my language setting is set to U.S. English. Previously I had U.S. English disabled and it was set to Japanese (Romaji). Japanese is no longer a selectable language on this system. I'm not sure if the issues are related, but the timing makes it suspicious. The issue with my hard drive disconnecting during suspend has also become incredibly rare - I've only seen it once during the time that this issue has been occurring.
Does anyone have an idea of what's happening and what I can do to fix it? My last resort will be to do a clean install and manually restore all of my data and files, rather than using Time Machine. I guess I shouldn't complain about that possibility... I used to have to do something similar about once every two years with Windows, and here I've been using Macs for about ten years and have always been able to restore easily from Time Machine.
Thanks for any thoughts or advice.
I bought my iMac in October, restored from my Time Machine backup, and had very little issue with the system; the only annoyance was that one of my external drives (the one housing Time Machine and one other partition) would often disconnect some time during suspend mode, but that was it. For a bit more than a month, I'll often return to my computer to find it at the account selection screen, with the message that "your system has recovered from a serious error" awaiting me when I log in.
This was happening daily. I've tried quitting all programs before entering suspend mode, which seems to make it so that I can go for up to four days without experiencing that crash, but it still happens. I've tried to determine if there was a recent program installation or upgrade, or hardware change, that may have caused this, but I can't pinpoint anything. It started happening with OS X 10.11.3 or .4, I believe, and upgrading to 10.11.5 didn't change the behavior.
One thing I've noticed that changed is that my language setting is set to U.S. English. Previously I had U.S. English disabled and it was set to Japanese (Romaji). Japanese is no longer a selectable language on this system. I'm not sure if the issues are related, but the timing makes it suspicious. The issue with my hard drive disconnecting during suspend has also become incredibly rare - I've only seen it once during the time that this issue has been occurring.
Does anyone have an idea of what's happening and what I can do to fix it? My last resort will be to do a clean install and manually restore all of my data and files, rather than using Time Machine. I guess I shouldn't complain about that possibility... I used to have to do something similar about once every two years with Windows, and here I've been using Macs for about ten years and have always been able to restore easily from Time Machine.
Thanks for any thoughts or advice.