Kernel Panics - Mac Mini M1 16GB MacOS 11.4 Beta

I suspect this won't happen with a clean install. Did you know you have a pile of unsigned extensions? I am surprised SoftRAID is able to load the driver.

here are lenghty instructions, which will help you delete them all. unsigned extensions cannot load in Big Sur. and some older extensions can cause problems, such as the HP printer driver from 2013.

I also wonder if the NTFS driver is partially responsible. It has been correlated before, so lets do this test: delete all the unsigned and unknown extensions per below. then delete the HP , Dymo  and logmein drivers.

I wonder about the google driver, it is dated 1980, which can cause issues, perhaps reinstall it. But leave the NTFS driver. Restart and see if you get the panic.

If you do, then delete that driver and see if the problem goes away.

 

Instructions:

Open a System Profiler report (about this Mac).

Under the Software tab on the left, find and Click extensions
Now click on the "obtained from" column on the upper right.
Expand the upper window:
The middle bar pulls down, so you can view more extensions in the window and also have room below to see the information about each extension as you click on it. I would make it about half way.

Now, scroll all the way to the bottom, where you see "not signed" extensions in the Obtained from column. Every one of those must be deleted.

You also need to delete all the older signed extensions, especially printer extensions

When you click on any extension in this window, the lower half window has details. You want the location, i.e, path to the file

The "location" is the path to the extension. You can select this path and "copy" it.

the remove command in terminal is this:
sudo rm -r
Then you need to make sure there is a space after r, then paste in the path

For example, if you were deleting an extension like an HP Printer, commonly an issue, its "location" is this:
/Library/Extensions/hp_io_enabler_compound.kext

So the terminal command will be this:
sudo rm -r /Library/Extensions/hp_io_enabler_compound.kext

After you delete all the unsigned and unknown extensions, delete the 3 identified developer extensions above.

When all are deleted, then paste these two commands into terminal to reset the extensions cache:

sudo kmutil clear-staging

sudo kextcache -i /

 

restart and test.

 

Delete the NTFS driver with the same method, including the two extensions to clear the extensions cache:

sudo kmutil clear-staging

sudo kextcache -i /

 

"dart-apciec1 (0xfffffe23334c4000): DART(DART) error: SID 2 write protect exception on write with DVA 0x80074000 (TTBR 0 SEG 0x40 PTE 0x1d) ERROR_STATUS 0x82000488 TIME 0xb93bd6fe6 TTE 0x170b5052c001 AXI_ID 0)"

This looks a lot similar to the error I see in my kernel panics on the other m1/Big Sur thread. In my case it is indeed a fresh install, without any other kernel extension besides the SoftRAID kernel extension. It is also worth noting that the kernel panics happened during the release (11.3.1) version of BigSur as well as the 11.4 now. 

I did all of the above--thanks for flagging the extensions from older systems.  I probably should have done a clean install....

But, the problem persists.  As soon as I enter my password at login, the screen freezes, flashes pink, and reboots.  I unplugged the Thunderbay, rebooted, and it started normally.  Here's the kernel panic again, and I'm attaching an updated

tech support report:

deadesq 2021-05-11 17.22.23.sr_supt

 

 

@deadesq

I would rather have panic logs as txt attachments, as they make the forum unwieldly

Did you try connecting 2 minutes after startup? I think that is the temporary workaround.

 

Are you also willing to try to capture a core dump from macOS on one of these crashes?

I am preparing instructions

@softraid-support  I tried to attach at TXT file to the thread originally, but it doesn't allow uploads of either TXT or HTML files.  I'll be happy to help out as I can--I hate posting the entire kernel panic, too, because it just takes up too much space.  If you release TXT attachments, though, I can upload those.

@deadesq

I think this is a text edit issue, it no longer has text files, you need to save and remove the extension. I will get .rtf added, I think. (there is some exploit risk, but not as much with .rtf they cannot contain executable scripts.)

@softraid-support

Did you send those instructions via email?  I haven't seen anything.  Same problem this morning when I booted up.  Pink flash on login, and then kernel panic with:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xfffffe001ad81798): "dart-apciec1 (0xfffffe2333344000): DART(DART)

Unplugged the Thunderbay, rebooted, waited 2 minute, then plugged in the Thunderbay--no issues.

@deadesq

I am tweaking the instructions, it should be soon.