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Schroinx

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Aug 7, 2019
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My 13" 2017 mac air has begun to stall randomly. First, the mouse pointer becomes the wheel, and one can still move the mouse, but not click on anything. Then it freezes and reboots after some time with a black screen of dead telling me about a critical system error. It reboots and sends an error report to Apple. After some time it happens again. Once in a while, it stalls during reboot, but then works after.
I first thought this was an issue arising from the latest update to 12.6.8, but that may or may not be, as I could also suspect other hardware to be at fault, like the ram or SSD, but I am unfamiliar with mac os and troubleshooting it. This is part of the error report it send after a failed log-on.
Can I post it all from the error report or is there sensitive information?

I am pretty much in the dark and as I used the machine extensively, it's quite annoying. Any ideas what it could be?

"panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8017f7e99f): userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from logd in 120 seconds
service returned not alive with context : unresponsive dispatch queue(s): com.apple.firehose.drain-mem
service: logd, total successful checkins since load (130 seconds ago): 2, last successful checkin: 120 seconds ago
service: opendirectoryd, total successful checkins since load (130 seconds ago): 13, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago
 
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