Subject says it: about a month or so ago, my Mac started randomly rebooting. Not when I did “this”… or “that”, or even when I was in the room. Everything is rosy, and BANG! it reboots.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, I was not a happy camper. The most common reason for that would be something hardware related. A faulty USB cable; some lose cable; perhaps a hub or switch going bad. Nope. \u00a0Bad RAM? \u00a0Nope.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So I started looking for “BOOT_TIME” in the system console log, to find the magic reboots. Finding that I copied out all the random ones, and 20 or so lines of system events before them to see if I could find something causing it. Several times the previous lines were similar or identical… but not -all- the time, so there was no -one- trigger.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Frustrated to the extreme because I hate not solving this kind of thing, I dug in. After all this was a contest between a complex computer and a guy with over 4 decades of computer experience. I wasn’t about to give up…<\/p>\n
…which lead me to the Font Of All Wisdom: the internet. After search for an hour, and following a zillion dead ends, I read a post from several years ago that rang a bell.<\/p>\n
Yes: I found the solution (or at least there have been no spontaneous reboots in 48 hours.)<\/p>\n
About the time this started, I cancelled my full Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, and reverted to the $10 Photographer one. (I wasn’t using the other stuff, and it saves a bucket of $$$.) \u00a0On doing that I just removed the old apps, and was (I thought) good to go.<\/p>\n
Wrong.<\/p>\n
The solution was to go get the Adobe uninstall tool for Creative Cloud. It wipes \u00a0out all the detritus, Roto-Roots everything, and I reinstalled Photoshop and LightRoom.<\/p>\n
Bingo.<\/p>\n
Now, the last reboot-free period could easily be due to the phase of the moon, but I’m pretty sure that the post on the Font Of All Wisdom, was the key: he cleared a mystery issue the same way.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
FWIW and YMMV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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