Mac mini m1 reboots regulary and Adobe products crash

[Pmartel]

Hi everyone;

Not sure where to post this but please move where necessary

Recently, my Mac mini M1 seems to reboot in the night and no updates that I'm aware.

I'm wondering what's causing this and I'm also noticing that PhotoShop seems to be crashing more lately

What do I do to solve these issues and please move to the appropriate area.

 

[Bigwaff]

Recently, my Mac mini M1 seems to reboot in the night and no updates that I'm aware.

How do you know it is rebooting?

 

[Pmartel]

How do you know it is rebooting?

I use a bluetooth speaker at night with YouTube. I can tell by that and it's rebootd when I get up in the morning

 

[Bigwaff]

I can tell by that and it's rebootd when I get up in the morning

In the morning, is there a dialog appearing stating "your computer restarted because of a problem"? If so, press the "Report..." button, save the report to a file, and post the contents of the file. The file will contain error and log messages related to the "problem", most likely a kernel panic.

 

[Pmartel]

In the morning, is there a dialog appearing stating "your computer restarted because of a problem"? If so, press the "Report..." button, save the report to a file, and post the contents of the file. The file will contain error and log messages related to the "problem", most likely a kernel panic.

Yes.
So how do I fix that?

 

[ignatius345]

I'd suggest a test to see if it's something in your user account.

1. Go to Users & Groups, set up a brand new user account
2. Restart and log into that account instead of your normal one
3. Don't bother signing in to iCloud, because that will just incur a lot of time syncing things
4. Use the machine. Try Photoshop to see how it behaves, whether it works any better, etc
5. Leave it sleeping overnight as you've been doing, and see if it reboots.

If everything works well in this plain vanilla test account, possibly it's something in your own user account that's not working well.

If it still crashes overnight, maybe that points to a hardware issue or something.