MacOS – 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
@fileutil   20.036.15
@AGDCPluginDisplayMetrics   4.1.46
>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
@!AFSCompression.!AFSCompressionTypeDataless    1.0.0d1
@BootCache  40
@!AFSCompression.!AFSCompressionTypeZlib    1.0.0
@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
$TMSafetyNet    8
@!ASystemPolicy 2.0.0
>!A!ICPUPowerManagement 222.0.0
|EndpointSecurity   1
>!AXsanScheme   3
>usb.cdc.ncm    5.0.0
>usb.cdc    5.0.0
>!ASMBus!C  1.0.18d1
@kext.AMDRadeonX4030HWLibs  1.0
|IOAccelerator!F2   438.1.19
@kext.AMDRadeonX4000HWServices  3.0.0
|IOAVB!F    800.17
>!ASSE  1.0
@plugin.IOgPTPPlugin    800.14
>DspFuncLib 283.13
@kext.OSvKernDSPLib 529
@!AGPUWrangler  4.1.46
>!AHDA!C    283.13
|IOHDA!F    283.13
|IOAudio!F  300.2
@vecLib.kext    1.2.0
|IOEthernetAVB!C    1.1.0
|IO80211!F  1200.12.2b1
>mDNSOffloadUserClient  1.0.1b8
>corecapture    1.0.4
|IOSkywalk!F    1
@kext.AMDSupport    3.0.0
@!AGraphicsDeviceControl    4.1.46
>!ABacklightExpert  1.1.0
|IONDRVSupport  558.1
|IOGraphics!F   558.1
>!AGraphicsControl  4.1.46
|IOSlowAdaptiveClocking!F   1.0.0
>X86PlatformPlugin  1.0.0
>IOPlatformPlugin!F 6.0.0d8
@kext.triggers  1.0
|Broadcom!BHost!CUSBTransport   7.0.0d105
|IO!BHost!CUSBTransport 7.0.0d105
|IO!BHost!CTransport    7.0.0d105
>!AHS!BDriver   153
>IO!BHIDDriver  7.0.0d105
|IO!B!F 7.0.0d105
|IO!BPacketLogger   7.0.0d105
>!AActuatorDriver   3400.33
>usb.IOUSBHostHIDDevice 1.2
>!AMultitouchDriver 3400.33
>!AInputDeviceSupport   3400.26
>!AHIDKeyboard  209
>usb.networking 5.0.0
>usb.!UHostCompositeDevice  1.2
>usb.!UHub  1.2
|IOSerial!F 11
|IOSurface  269.6
@filesystems.hfs.encodings.kext 1
>!AThunderboltDPInAdapter   6.2.0
>!AThunderboltDPAdapter!F   6.2.0
>!AThunderboltPCIDownAdapter    2.5.2
>!AThunderboltNHI   5.5.8
|IOThunderbolt!F    7.4.5
>usb.!UXHCIPCI  1.2
>usb.!UXHCI 1.2
|IONVMe!F   2.1.0
>usb.!UEHCIPCI  1.2
>usb.!UEHCI 1.2
|IOUSB!F    900.4.2
>!AEFINVRAM 2.1
>!AEFIRuntime   2.1
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$quarantine 4
$sandbox    300.0
@kext.!AMatch   1.0.0d1
>DiskImages 493.0.0
>!AFDEKeyStore  28.30
>!AEffaceable!S 1.0
>!AKeyStore 2
>!UTDM  489.0.2
|IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice  422.0.2
>!ACredentialManager    1.0
>KernelRelayHost    1
>!ASEPManager   1.0.1
>IOSlaveProcessor   1
|IOTimeSync!F   800.14
|IONetworking!F 3.4
|IOUSBMass!SDriver  157.0.2
|IOSCSIArchitectureModel!F  422.0.2
|IO!S!F 2.1
|IOUSBHost!F    1.2
>!UHostMergeProperties  1.2
>usb.!UCommon   1.0
>!ABusPower!C   1.0
|CoreAnalytics!F    1
>!AMobileFileIntegrity  1.0.5
@kext.CoreTrust 1
|IOReport!F 47
>!AACPIPlatform 6.1
>!ASMC  3.1.9
>watchdog   1
|IOPCI!F    2.9
|IOACPI!F   1.4
@kec.pthread    1
@kec.Libm   1
@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.