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NJRonbo

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My fault. Installed Beta 2 of Tahoe over Sequoia.

However, many people have reported success with the installs and I have done these DEV installs with much success over the years.

So, for fun, I did the upgrade on my MacBook Air which is a secondary laptop to my MacBook Pro (which I left on Sequoia).

As soon as installation was done, the OS kept crashing. Not a full reboot, but kept returning to the login screen.

A WindowServer error showed up.

I have about 20 different apps that start up with Mac OS so it could have been any one of those apps that caused the problem.

In any case, I am in the process of erasing my Mac and re-installing Sequoia.
 
You have the separate displays have separate spaces disabled I assume. In that case it’s a known bug and you can fix it by setting it back from recovery mode. It’s on apples release notes including the fix workaround
 
You have the separate displays have separate spaces disabled I assume. In that case it’s a known bug and you can fix it by setting it back from recovery mode. It’s on apples release notes including the fix workaround

Thank you. Do you have a link?
 
  • If System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Displays have separate Spaces is disabled, WindowServer will crash at login time. (153570422)
    Workaround: Boot into Recovery, then mount the Data volume on your partition. Launch Terminal and run rm /Volumes/<Partition Name "Macintosh HD">/Users/<user name>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Spaces.plist.

From here
 
  • If System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Displays have separate Spaces is disabled, WindowServer will crash at login time. (153570422)
    Workaround: Boot into Recovery, then mount the Data volume on your partition. Launch Terminal and run rm /Volumes/<Partition Name "Macintosh HD">/Users/<user name>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Spaces.plist.

From here

Listen, I truly thank you for this.

Turned out, probably not the issue.

I did a full erase and install of Sequoia. I then upgraded to Tahoe. Why not? It's a fresh install.

Once I upgraded to Tahoe, everything worked fine with no crashes.

So, slowly, I am going to reinstall all my apps and with each install, I am going to do a reboot to see which app caused the issue. At least, I am assuming, that would be the way to test the problem.

Again, I thank you for the help and providing the link.
 
Listen, I truly thank you for this.

Turned out, probably not the issue.

I did a full erase and install of Sequoia. I then upgraded to Tahoe. Why not? It's a fresh install.

Once I upgraded to Tahoe, everything worked fine with no crashes.

So, slowly, I am going to reinstall all my apps and with each install, I am going to do a reboot to see which app caused the issue. At least, I am assuming, that would be the way to test the problem.

Again, I thank you for the help and providing the link.
Alright. Sounds like a good plan. Keep us updated if you find something else causing problems. :)
For future references is your MacBook Air an Apple silicon or intel machine?
 
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