Kernel Panic Help - 2013 Mac Pro (Trashcan)
Been getting this k-panic once a day for the past year or so... No rhyme or reason to it, but it happens at least once a day. System slows down just a little bit, not to an unusable point, however...
It was happening twice a day, until I plugged in my Magic Trackpad 2 with lightning cable to the Mac Pro. Plugging in wireless numeric keyboard didn't make a difference. Thought I was onto something when I figured out the trackpad thing.
After reading a few other form pages about kernel panics that are frequent, I reinstalled macOS Mojave a few times. Reinstalling seems to resolve the issue and then after about a week and a half of use after reinstall, its back to its old ways.
I've been told by an "expert" that this is a likely sign of a failing processor. If so, fine... Ive been wanting to upgrade from 4 cores to 8 or 12 for a while. Buying it with 4 was a huge mistake. But I would like to get a second opinion from MacExchange here and see if its something else entirely.
My system after reboot says your computer rebooted because of a problem, press any key to reboot... Even though I initiated the reboot in the first place, it seems to think it crashed and rebooted itself.
I hit space, the Mac chime plays, and I am back in business. Once I login, a window pops up and says your Mac experienced an error, this will be automatically sent to apple for further review.
Then on the next window behind it, a window with this kernel panic text shows, and offers a box for a comment.
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f90c094cf): nvme: "Fatal error occurred. CSTS=0xffffffff US[1]=0x0 US[0]=0x5 VID=0x126f DID=0x2260
. FW Revision=C2.3.23A\n"@/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/IONVMeFamily/IONVMeFamily-470.0.9/IONVMeController.cpp:5258
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffffa40768bab0 : 0xffffff800ef42afb
0xffffffa40768bb00 : 0xffffff800f079ca5
0xffffffa40768bb40 : 0xffffff800f06b70e
0xffffffa40768bb90 : 0xffffff800eee9bb0
0xffffffa40768bbb0 : 0xffffff800ef421e7
0xffffffa40768bcb0 : 0xffffff800ef425cb
0xffffffa40768bd00 : 0xffffff800f6d3419
0xffffffa40768bd70 : 0xffffff7f90c094cf
0xffffffa40768bd90 : 0xffffff7f90bf448a
0xffffffa40768bef0 : 0xffffff7f90bf466c
0xffffffa40768bf30 : 0xffffff800f6a910b
0xffffffa40768bf70 : 0xffffff800f6a8e28
0xffffffa40768bfa0 : 0xffffff800eee913e
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.iokit.IONVMeFamily(2.1)[64F47940-9067-34AA-8BE0-00A3D318D744]@0xffffff7f90be6000->0xffffff7f90c28fff
dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleMobileFileIntegrity(1.0.5)[A0EA3BA4-766A-31D0-A942-6C22941D96A8]@0xffffff7f8f983000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[E55C8096-DBD1-3D37-B27E-956FC4EFC776]@0xffffff7f8faf1000
dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM(2.1)[5A0A0D72-00CA-3C23-BE21-CF3B76689409]@0xffffff7f8fcd9000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(2.1)[40EAD563-6BDF-3A66-B9F7-D888DFE5BD0A]@0xffffff7f8f865000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily(47)[8A456F86-9DC7-3659-9690-DF50846852BA]@0xffffff7f8fa23000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
19A546d
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 19.0.0: Sun Aug 18 23:37:31 PDT 2019; root:xnu-6153.0.166~17/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 3DF78B9A-F155-3176-889D-DB780ED589D6
Kernel slide: 0x000000000ec00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800ee00000
__HIB text base: 0xffffff800ed00000
System model name: MacPro6,1 (Mac-F60DEB81FF30ACF6)
System shutdown begun: YES
Panic diags file available: NO (0xe00002cd)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 160769377250874
last loaded kext at 78138008967322: >!AXsanScheme 3 (addr 0xffffff7f92143000, size 32768)
last unloaded kext at 66252159977307: >!UMergeNub 900.4.2 (addr 0xffffff7f91419000, size 12288)
loaded kexts:
@filesystems.smbfs 3.4
>!AUpstreamUserClient 3.6.8
>!AMCCSControl 1.12
@kext.AMDFramebuffer 3.0.0
@kext.AMDRadeonX4000 3.0.0
@kext.AMDRadeonServiceManager 3.0.0
>!AGraphicsDevicePolicy 4.1.46
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>AudioAUUC 1.70
>!AHV 1
|IOUserEthernet 1.0.1
|IO!BSerialManager 7.0.0d105
>pmtelemetry 1
>!APlatformEnabler 2.7.0d0
>AGPM 111.1.18
>X86PlatformShim 1.0.0
@Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
>!AHDA 283.13
>eficheck 1
>!AThunderboltIP 3.1.2
|!ABCM5701Ethernet 10.3.5
>!A!IMCEReporter 113
>!ALPC 3.1
>AirPort.BrcmNIC 1400.1.1
@kext.AMD7000!C 3.0.0
>!AMGPUPowerControl 4.1.46
>!A!ISlowAdaptiveClocking 4.0.0
@filesystems.autofs 3.0
>!ATopCaseHIDEventDriver 153
>!UTopCaseDriver 153
>!AVirtIO 1.0
@filesystems.hfs.kext 522.0.8
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@BootCache 40
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@filesystems.apfs 1412.0.28
@private.KextAudit 1.0
>!AACPIButtons 6.1
>!AACPIEC 6.1
>!ARTC 2.0
>!AHPET 1.8
>!ASMBIOS 2.1
>!AAPIC 1.7
>!A!ICPUPowerManagementClient 222.0.0
$!AImage4 1
@nke.applicationfirewall 302
$TMSafetyNet 8
@!ASystemPolicy 2.0.0
>!A!ICPUPowerManagement 222.0.0
|EndpointSecurity 1
>!AXsanScheme 3
>usb.cdc.ncm 5.0.0
>usb.cdc 5.0.0
>!ASMBus!C 1.0.18d1
@kext.AMDRadeonX4030HWLibs 1.0
|IOAccelerator!F2 438.1.19
@kext.AMDRadeonX4000HWServices 3.0.0
|IOAVB!F 800.17
>!ASSE 1.0
@plugin.IOgPTPPlugin 800.14
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@!AGPUWrangler 4.1.46
>!AHDA!C 283.13
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|IOAudio!F 300.2
@vecLib.kext 1.2.0
|IOEthernetAVB!C 1.1.0
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|IOSkywalk!F 1
@kext.AMDSupport 3.0.0
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>!ABacklightExpert 1.1.0
|IONDRVSupport 558.1
|IOGraphics!F 558.1
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|IOSlowAdaptiveClocking!F 1.0.0
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>IOPlatformPlugin!F 6.0.0d8
@kext.triggers 1.0
|Broadcom!BHost!CUSBTransport 7.0.0d105
|IO!BHost!CUSBTransport 7.0.0d105
|IO!BHost!CTransport 7.0.0d105
>!AHS!BDriver 153
>IO!BHIDDriver 7.0.0d105
|IO!B!F 7.0.0d105
|IO!BPacketLogger 7.0.0d105
>!AActuatorDriver 3400.33
>usb.IOUSBHostHIDDevice 1.2
>!AMultitouchDriver 3400.33
>!AInputDeviceSupport 3400.26
>!AHIDKeyboard 209
>usb.networking 5.0.0
>usb.!UHostCompositeDevice 1.2
>usb.!UHub 1.2
|IOSerial!F 11
|IOSurface 269.6
@filesystems.hfs.encodings.kext 1
>!AThunderboltDPInAdapter 6.2.0
>!AThunderboltDPAdapter!F 6.2.0
>!AThunderboltPCIDownAdapter 2.5.2
>!AThunderboltNHI 5.5.8
|IOThunderbolt!F 7.4.5
>usb.!UXHCIPCI 1.2
>usb.!UXHCI 1.2
|IONVMe!F 2.1.0
>usb.!UEHCIPCI 1.2
>usb.!UEHCI 1.2
|IOUSB!F 900.4.2
>!AEFINVRAM 2.1
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$quarantine 4
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>!ABusPower!C 1.0
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>!AMobileFileIntegrity 1.0.5
@kext.CoreTrust 1
|IOReport!F 47
>!AACPIPlatform 6.1
>!ASMC 3.1.9
>watchdog 1
|IOPCI!F 2.9
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@kec.pthread 1
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@kec.corecrypto 1.0
My Mac Pro's Specs: 10.15 Catilina Beta (this didn't help, even a fresh install of it) Mac Pro (Late 2013) 3.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 32GB 1866 MHz DDR3 1TB SSD
Only thing on this Mac that isn't stock from Apple is the SSD. I upgraded this myself when I first got the machine. OWC MacSales had a promotion if you sent the one that came with your Mac in, you got an upgrade for $200. So I went from 512 to 1TB for $200. Never had issues with either drive.
Solution 1:
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f90c094cf): nvme: "Fatal error occurred.
Your computer is failing to communicate properly with its NVMe flash storage. This may be a problem with the built-in flash storage or with the processor, but either way it's almost certainly unrelated to the trackpad.
Given that you have installed an aftermarket SSD, my suspicion would be that it is failing. Unfortunately, since you no longer have the original drive, testing this theory may be difficult. :(