MacOS – Catalina, randomly crashes on login screen after sleep

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Since I updated to macOS Catalina – 10.15.0, I'm experiencing random "crashes" on the login screen after I wake my MBP (2019) up. I just can't do anything, I see the login screen, but I'm not able to do anything, it just displays the spinning wheel cursor after a few secs.

Updated to 10.15.1 and 10.15.2, with no success.

Here's some logs:

Sleep/Wakes since boot at 2020-01-08 09:33:57 +0100 :2   Dark Wake Count in this sleep cycle:1

Time stamp                Domain                Message                                                                     Duration    Delay     
==========                ======                =======                                                                     ========    =====     
UUID: (null)
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Start                 powerd process is started                                                             
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            Summary- [System: No Assertions] Using AC(Charge: 99)          
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            PID 218(fsck_apfs) Created PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x500008000 [System: PrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            PID 129(powerd) Created InternalPreventDisplaySleep "com.apple.powermanagement.delayDisplayOff" 00:00:00  id:0x0x1000008001 [System: PrevDisp IntPrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            PID 218(fsck_apfs) Released PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x500008000 [System: IntPrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            PID 231(fsck_apfs) Created PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x500008002 [System: PrevDisp IntPrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            PID 231(fsck_apfs) Released PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x500008002 [System: IntPrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            PID 235(fsck_apfs) Created PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x500008003 [System: PrevDisp IntPrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            PID 235(fsck_apfs) Released PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x500008003 [System: IntPrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            PID 241(fsck_apfs) Created PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x500008004 [System: PrevDisp IntPrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            PID 241(fsck_apfs) Released PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x500008004 [System: IntPrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            PID 253(fsck_apfs) Created PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x500008005 [System: PrevDisp IntPrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:05:40 +0100 Assertions            PID 253(fsck_apfs) Released PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x500008005 [System: IntPrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:05:48 +0100 Assertions            Kernel Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler          
2020-01-08 13:05:58 +0100 Assertions            PID 176(hidd) Created UserIsActive "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle serviceID:1000006aa name:NULL product:Magic Mouse 2 eventType:17" 00:00:00  id:0x0x90000813d [System: PrevIdle DeclUser IntPrevDisp kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:06:19 +0100 Assertions            PID 1621(fsck_apfs) Created PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x5000081b8 [System: PrevIdle PrevDisp DeclUser IntPrevDisp IPushSrvc kCPU kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:06:19 +0100 Assertions            PID 1621(fsck_apfs) Released PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x5000081b8 [System: PrevIdle DeclUser IntPrevDisp IPushSrvc kCPU kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:06:25 +0100 Assertions            PID 1689(fsck_apfs) Created PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x5000081c7 [System: PrevDisp DeclUser IntPrevDisp IPushSrvc kCPU kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:06:25 +0100 Assertions            PID 1689(fsck_apfs) Released PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep "Running FSCK" 00:00:00  id:0x0x5000081c7 [System: DeclUser IntPrevDisp IPushSrvc kCPU kDisp]          
2020-01-08 13:06:40 +0100 Notification          Next immediate inactivity window start:'2020-01-08 13:00:00 +0100' end:'2020-01-08 15:45:00 +0100'

I've seen a lot of similar issues, but not that particular one. It's kinda annoying, any idea to solve this?

Edit:

I can't provide logs for this, or anything, but I noticed that it happens a lot more when I'm running web dev tools (Webpack, RN packager and that kind of stuff which are basically local NodeJS servers) that I don't kill before the computer goes to sleep.

Best Answer

I had this start happening the day following my upgrade to Catalina. For me it turns out that I had cron jobs piling up. I had 3 entries in my crontab for Magento from a project I worked on a couple years ago. Apparently cron has been deprecated for quite a while now and it seems that since I upgraded to Catalina, the cron jobs would not exit after running, causing the processes to pile up, consuming resources.

I solved my problem by deleting my crontab since I no longer needed these jobs to run. I used crontab -r to delete the crontab.

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