Kernel Panic on macOS (crash, reboot)

Here to report a kernel panic after updating to the latest version.

The crash occurred when I was changing fonts via the Style Settings plugin. Same general error as before:

Process name corresponding to current thread: Obsidian Helper (Renderer)
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Damn, thatā€™s a shame. Just confirm: you re-downloaded Obsidian from the website right?

Correct, Iā€™m on the latest installer and app versions

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Iā€™m still experiencing kernel panics with installer version 0.12.3. They seem to be less frequent but still happen. Itā€™s hard to qualify when exactly they happen but as long as Iā€™m working in one file, it seems to happen less frequently. When I quickly jump back and forth between many files, it seems to happen more frequently.

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I just had the first reboot after upgrading to the lastest version. This happen when I clicked upgrade ā€œDataviewā€ plugin. At the end of the update process it reboot.

The Obsidian developers keep an eye on the electron issue

2 weeks ago a developer of another app found a workaround, but only time will tell if this will solve the problem, The working solution appears to be to start file watching via ipc
which is in line with this post Electron causing kernel panic on OS X Catalina Ā· Issue #26023 Ā· electron/electron Ā· GitHub
(which is not easy to change from how currently this is done in Obsidian, it was discussed a few posts above)

  • I never experienced KP due to using Obsidian on my old Intel MacBook Pro, but I am monitoring this topic bc I want to switch to Apple Silicon mac soon
  • I donā€™t know if this is relevant, but last year I started experiencing sudden crashes on my Intel 2014 MacBook Pro (it was probably due to low voltage problem in Haswell processor and MacOS instruction set), I installed one of the scripts from this topic and since then my Intel mac never crashed
    https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/9pyort/apple_macbook_pro_sudden_crash_fix_for_models/
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Not sure if itā€™s still helpful to continue reporting but I just had two crashes within an hour. Strangely, this time, I was actually just working on one file. No jumping around. No linking. Just trying to write text.

This is becoming slightly annoying.

What can I do to reduce these?

Iā€™ve reset SMC and NVRAM and running the latest installer version 0.12.3 on MacOS 10.15.7.

Whatā€™s the latest best practices to avoid these crashes? Am I missing anything?

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I donā€™t think thereā€™s much you can do, unfortunately. I know itā€™s not explicitly Obsidianā€™s fault that it happens, but I would love for this to patched in at least the coming year. While it only affects some users, I think itā€™s still a very disruptive bug, which we have no control over.

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Side-note: have you ever experienced Obsidian not saving the file you are working on and the changes are ā€œlostā€ when you switch to another file?

(I am trying to understand if there is a connection with another report)

Had 2 kernel panics with insider 12.4 and they were so bad that they made my MacBook Pro 2018 13 inch do a complete restart two times yesterday out of no where.

I had coastal theme, my own snippet and 50 plugins installed.

Today my css snippets wouldnā€™t load even after quitting and reloading the app. It was so bad.

I just updated to Mac OS 11.4 and did a complete uninstall of obsidian and all plugins in .obsidian and am now on obsidian 0.12.3 I feel like im on a whole different obsidian!

What I learned is to make sure to quit Obsidian EVERY time I wake up my laptop from sleeping. Obsidian doesnā€™t play nicely if you start using it after it goes to sleep.

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Noā€¦ Not that I know of or can remember ā€¦

Yes, I experienced it several times, but I donā€™t remember did I switch to another file when it happened. I will notice it next time.
The situation is: I found I canā€™t type, paste images, or open other note-> cmd+R ā†’ Obsidian restart (sometimes close the windows ) ā†’ The change in 10~20 minutes disappeared, and I couldnā€™t find any changelog in my version history of Obsidian Sync and Dropbox.

By the way, I seldom met the Kernel Panic now, only 3 times from 2 months till now.

Yes, it happened to me in the first day of use in a vault imported from Windows to macOS 11.1. My setup is with a custom theme, a couple of snippets (bullet list with lines, horizontal tabs, invisible scroll bar), and the DataView and Calendar plugin. No cloud storage, all local.

I was typing in a note, and added a link to an existing note. I right-click on it and instead of seeing the Obsidian default drop-down list, I got the macOS right-click droplist. So I CMD+R, and when the program reloaded, the changes I had done in the last few minutes were gone. Of course, the file recovery Snapshot was inexistent.

Didnā€™t happen again for a while, but itā€™s a bit scary. I kind of write my notes afraid of it now. :sweat_smile:

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Sympathy to every affected by this. Reading this thread from start to finish sucks. But at the same time itā€™s a bit thrilling, like game of thrones leading up the Battle of Winterfell.

Who is the Night King?? Will Jon and Daenerys defeat his army of the dead???

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Just had a kernel panic on my Mac Mini 2018:
System version: MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
Obsidian version: v0.12.9 (installer v0.12.3)

The crash report (see below) points to Obsidian Helper. I experience very frequent kernel panics recently, and this is my 3rd time today, but I didnā€™t think to check the crash report until now. Will keep that in mind and follow up if thereā€™s more KP pointing to Obsidian.

Panic(CPU 2, time 82049872904140): NMIPI for spinlock acquisition timeout, spinlock: 0xffffff803c0d9570, spinlock owner: 0xffffff804451ba40, current_thread: 0xffffff804451ba40, spinlock_owner_cpu: 0x2
RAX: 0xffffff804b2fd000, RBX: 0xffffff806f2d5c88, RCX: 0x00000000000002b6, RDX: 0x0000ee5800000000
RSP: 0xffffff923ce13a70, RBP: 0xffffff923ce13ab0, RSI: 0xffffff804451ba40, RDI: 0xffffff806f2d5c88
R8:  0xffffff923ce13c30, R9:  0xffffff8007b6d2e0, R10: 0x0000000000ffffff, R11: 0xffffff80473b9800
R12: 0xffffff804451ba40, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0x0000ee58f30a18fd, R15: 0xffffff804b2fd000
RFL: 0x0000000000000086, RIP: 0xffffff8007b2cfc0, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000010
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81f6e5df80 : 0xffffff8007c47eab 
0xffffff81f6e5dfd0 : 0xffffff8007ac2bed 
0xffffff923ce13ab0 : 0xffffff8007b2d154 
0xffffff923ce13ae0 : 0xffffff8007b6baa0 
0xffffff923ce13b00 : 0xffffff8007b6d319 
0xffffff923ce13bb0 : 0xffffff8007b6d821 
0xffffff923ce13c20 : 0xffffff8007b6c944 
0xffffff923ce13ce0 : 0xffffff8007b70638 
0xffffff923ce13d20 : 0xffffff800804fa24 
0xffffff923ce13d40 : 0xffffff800804fb0e 
0xffffff923ce13d80 : 0xffffff80080a584d 
0xffffff923ce13db0 : 0xffffff80080a62b3 
0xffffff923ce13e20 : 0xffffff80080a0500 
0xffffff923ce13ee0 : 0xffffff80080a02c0 
0xffffff923ce13f40 : 0xffffff8008183cb7 
0xffffff923ce13fa0 : 0xffffff8007ac3206 

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Obsidian Helper 
Boot args: chunklist-security-epoch=0 -chunklist-no-rev2-dev chunklist-security-epoch=0 -chunklist-no-rev2-dev

Mac OS version:
19H1217

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 19.6.0: Thu May  6 00:48:39 PDT 2021; root:xnu-6153.141.33~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 0B6CD26B-B526-3646-9B69-02D22BBE9C52
Kernel slide:     0x0000000007800000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8007a00000
__HIB  text base: 0xffffff8007900000
System model name: Macmini8,1 (Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C)
System shutdown begun: NO

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panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8007c3dae0): "Spinlock acquisition timed out: lock=0xffffff803c0d9570, lock owner thread=0xffffff804451ba40, current_thread: 0xffffff804b2fd000, lock owner active on CPU 0x2, current owner: 0xffffff804451ba40, time: 82049872975437"@/AppleInternal/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-6153.141.33/osfmk/i386/locks_i386.c:501
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81d6beab30 : 0xffffff8007b1c63d 
0xffffff81d6beab80 : 0xffffff8007c56b25 
0xffffff81d6beabc0 : 0xffffff8007c486ae 
0xffffff81d6beac10 : 0xffffff8007ac2a40 
0xffffff81d6beac30 : 0xffffff8007b1bd07 
0xffffff81d6bead30 : 0xffffff8007b1c0f7 
0xffffff81d6bead80 : 0xffffff80082c0b3c 
0xffffff81d6beadf0 : 0xffffff8007c3dae0 
0xffffff81d6beae30 : 0xffffff8007b3ae56 
0xffffff81d6beae60 : 0xffffff8007b6745c 
0xffffff81d6beaf20 : 0xffffff8007c35847 
0xffffff81d6beaf60 : 0xffffff8007c50713 
0xffffff81d6beaf80 : 0xffffff8007c47eab 
0xffffff81d6beafd0 : 0xffffff8007ac2bed 
0xffffff923ca33da0 : 0xffffff8007b70431 
0xffffff923ca33e00 : 0xffffff80080a23a9 
0xffffff923ca33f00 : 0xffffff80080a14b6 
0xffffff923ca33f40 : 0xffffff8008183cb7 
0xffffff923ca33fa0 : 0xffffff8007ac3206 

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Obsidian Helper 
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Had another one pointing to Obsidian Helper. I avoided using Obsidian desktop for the last few days. I used Obsidian Mobile most of the time (and occasionally desktop for a few minutes ) and had no KP on my computer. Just now I opened Ob desktop for like 20 min and it caused a KP.

System version: MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
Obsidian version: v0.12.10 (installer v0.12.3)

Panic(CPU 2, time 55393502726727): NMIPI for spinlock acquisition timeout, spinlock: 0xffffff804cdfaa90, spinlock owner: 0xffffff8043fe6000, current_thread: 0xffffff8043fe6000, spinlock_owner_cpu: 0x2
RAX: 0xffffff80485c6000, RBX: 0xffffff80687e3cd8, RCX: 0x000000000000000c, RDX: 0x0000033d00000000
RSP: 0xffffff81ff333a70, RBP: 0xffffff81ff333ab0, RSI: 0xffffff8043fe6000, RDI: 0xffffff80687e3cd8
R8:  0xffffff81ff333c30, R9:  0xffffff801076d2e0, R10: 0x0000000000ffffff, R11: 0xffffff80436c9a00
R12: 0xffffff8043fe6000, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0x0000033da9338a58, R15: 0xffffff80485c6000
RFL: 0x0000000000000087, RIP: 0xffffff801072cfad, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000010
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81fe4e8f80 : 0xffffff8010847eab 
0xffffff81fe4e8fd0 : 0xffffff80106c2bed 
0xffffff81ff333ab0 : 0xffffff801072d154 
0xffffff81ff333ae0 : 0xffffff801076baa0 
0xffffff81ff333b00 : 0xffffff801076d319 
0xffffff81ff333bb0 : 0xffffff801076d821 
0xffffff81ff333c20 : 0xffffff801076c944 
0xffffff81ff333ce0 : 0xffffff8010770638 
0xffffff81ff333d20 : 0xffffff8010c4fa24 
0xffffff81ff333d40 : 0xffffff8010c4fb0e 
0xffffff81ff333d80 : 0xffffff8010ca584d 
0xffffff81ff333db0 : 0xffffff8010ca62b3 
0xffffff81ff333e20 : 0xffffff8010ca0500 
0xffffff81ff333ee0 : 0xffffff8010ca02c0 
0xffffff81ff333f40 : 0xffffff8010d83cb7 
0xffffff81ff333fa0 : 0xffffff80106c3206 

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Obsidian Helper 
Boot args: chunklist-security-epoch=0 -chunklist-no-rev2-dev

Mac OS version:
19H1217

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 19.6.0: Thu May  6 00:48:39 PDT 2021; root:xnu-6153.141.33~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 0B6CD26B-B526-3646-9B69-02D22BBE9C52
Kernel slide:     0x0000000010400000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8010600000
__HIB  text base: 0xffffff8010500000
System model name: Macmini8,1 (Mac-7BA5B2DFE22DDD8C)
System shutdown begun: NO

System uptime in nanoseconds: 55393502768838
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>!AMobileFileIntegrity	1.0.5
@kext.CoreTrust	1
|CoreAnalytics!F	1
|IOTimeSync!F	840.3
|IONetworking!F	3.4
>DiskImages	493.0.0
|IO!B!F	7.0.6f8
|IO!BPacketLogger	7.0.6f8
>!ASSE	1.0
>KernelRelayHost	1
>!ASEPManager	1.0.1
>IOSlaveProcessor	1
|IOUSBMass!SDriver	157.140.1
|IOSCSIArchitectureModel!F	422.120.3
|IO!S!F	2.1
|IOUSBHost!F	1.2
>usb.!UCommon	1.0
>!UHostMergeProperties	1.2
>!ABusPower!C	1.0
|IOReport!F	47
>!AACPIPlatform	6.1
>!ASMC	3.1.9
>watchdog	1
|IOPCI!F	2.9
|IOACPI!F	1.4
@kec.pthread	1
@kec.corecrypto	1.0
@kec.Libm	1
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801083dae0): "Spinlock acquisition timed out: lock=0xffffff804cdfaa90, lock owner thread=0xffffff8043fe6000, current_thread: 0xffffff80485c6000, lock owner active on CPU 0x2, current owner: 0xffffff8043fe6000, time: 55393502796161"@/AppleInternal/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-6153.141.33/osfmk/i386/locks_i386.c:501
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81de0e0b30 : 0xffffff801071c63d 
0xffffff81de0e0b80 : 0xffffff8010856b25 
0xffffff81de0e0bc0 : 0xffffff80108486ae 
0xffffff81de0e0c10 : 0xffffff80106c2a40 
0xffffff81de0e0c30 : 0xffffff801071bd07 
0xffffff81de0e0d30 : 0xffffff801071c0f7 
0xffffff81de0e0d80 : 0xffffff8010ec0b3c 
0xffffff81de0e0df0 : 0xffffff801083dae0 
0xffffff81de0e0e30 : 0xffffff801073ae56 
0xffffff81de0e0e60 : 0xffffff801076745c 
0xffffff81de0e0f20 : 0xffffff8010835847 
0xffffff81de0e0f60 : 0xffffff8010850713 
0xffffff81de0e0f80 : 0xffffff8010847eab 
0xffffff81de0e0fd0 : 0xffffff80106c2bed 
0xffffff92220d3da0 : 0xffffff8010770431 
0xffffff92220d3e00 : 0xffffff8010ca23a9 
0xffffff92220d3f00 : 0xffffff8010ca14b6 
0xffffff92220d3f40 : 0xffffff8010d83cb7 
0xffffff92220d3fa0 : 0xffffff80106c3206 

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Obsidian Helper 

Just had several kernel panics in a row - new user of Obsidian, just downloaded yesterday on a 2020 16" Intel MacbookPro. Not many plugins (Citations, Dataview), most crashes happened on default Dark theme, now Iā€™m on Minimal.

I think thereā€™s a correlation with pasting in text from other programs, but canā€™t be sure.

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Iā€™ve been having continued crashes here (approx 4 per day). Iā€™m not managing to find good reports, though - nothing at all relevant in Console under Crash Reports or Diagnostic Reports. Itā€™s a hard hang, machine instantly turns off.

Iā€™m starting to become suspicious of interaction with the Citations plug-in - itā€™s often after adding or looking at a link to a literature note.

One other point - Iā€™ve got my Vault in a Dropbox folder. Iā€™m going to stop syncing for a while, and see if that helpsā€¦

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(stopping Dropbox sync did not stop the crashesā€¦)

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iā€™m experiencing this too now. also obsidian helper renderer. 2018 macbook pro running big sur 11.4