MacBook – Kernel Panic right after sleep in macOS High Sierra

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Recently I have noticed my MacBook Pro restarting as soon as it tries going to sleep. If I plug it in and leave it on for the whole day, it will work fine.

  1. I have tried resetting SMC, NVRAM etc.

  2. Apple Hardware diagnostics says there is no issue with the machine.

  3. First Aid says disk is okay.

I have also tried going into Recovery and deleting the sleepimage. Now have hibernate mode disabled. Still facing kernel panic.

This is what I am getting in the log.

*** Panic Report ***

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f9a41ffcd): "Failed to quiesce supporting devices\n"@/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleACPIPlatform/AppleACPIPlatform-281.70.3/AppleACPIPlatformPower.cpp:1970
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff9216e739c0 : 0xffffff8018c6c1c6 
0xffffff9216e73a10 : 0xffffff8018d95274 
0xffffff9216e73a50 : 0xffffff8018d87544 
0xffffff9216e73ac0 : 0xffffff8018c1e1e0 
0xffffff9216e73ae0 : 0xffffff8018c6bc3c 
0xffffff9216e73c10 : 0xffffff8018c6b9fc 
0xffffff9216e73c70 : 0xffffff7f9a41ffcd 
0xffffff9216e73cd0 : 0xffffff7f9a41fb9e 
0xffffff9216e73d20 : 0xffffff7f9a4240eb 
0xffffff9216e73d40 : 0xffffff80192b9658 
0xffffff9216e73d90 : 0xffffff80192e7a03 
0xffffff9216e73e00 : 0xffffff801928154b 
0xffffff9216e73e50 : 0xffffff801927e738 
0xffffff9216e73eb0 : 0xffffff801927b713 
0xffffff9216e73ef0 : 0xffffff801927b5a2 
0xffffff9216e73f30 : 0xffffff8019297ef2 
0xffffff9216e73f70 : 0xffffff801929752c 
0xffffff9216e73fa0 : 0xffffff8018c1d557 
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform(6.1)[B0282791-F78C-3A3D-A829-629AD847C7EA]@0xffffff7f9a414000->0xffffff7f9a4affff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[95DA39BB-7C39-3742-A2E5-86C555E21D67]@0xffffff7f99948000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[AEA4C7F5-CCB0-338B-B471-CF28A9792522]@0xffffff7f99494000
            dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleSMC(3.1.9)[2D1E4A3F-A19E-3F12-878D-807CB79CD55F]@0xffffff7f99951000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Best Answer

Do you happen to have the GPU problem stated here? If you do please do take care of Part 2: improve thermal and power management.