Re: random restarts with Big Sur?

2020-11-19 Thread Jeff Weinberger
On Nov 19, 2020, at 8:31 PM, Macs R We wrote: OK, I thought you were saying it only rebooted when you weren't there to watch it. Mostly, yes, but twice while I was there When I encountered this behavior recently, I found there was corruption in the APFS snapshots. Unfortunately, I found

Re: random restarts with Big Sur?

2020-11-19 Thread Carl Hoefs
Is it known yet if Big Sur is still APFS-only, or did Apple finally bite the bullet with its long rumored to-be-coming ZFS support? -Carl > On Nov 19, 2020, at 5:31 PM, Macs R We wrote: > > OK, I thought you were saying it only rebooted when you weren't there to > watch it. > > When I

Re: random restarts with Big Sur?

2020-11-19 Thread Macs R We
OK, I thought you were saying it only rebooted when you weren't there to watch it. When I encountered this behavior recently, I found there was corruption in the APFS snapshots. Unfortunately, I found this only after the machine committed total hara-kiri, because Disk Utility was entirely too

Re: random restarts with Big Sur?

2020-11-19 Thread Jeff Weinberger
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 7:18 PM Macs R We wrote: > Do you have automatic updating enabled? If the system performs an > automatic update that requires a reboot, it will reboot. > I have automatic updates enabled for things other than system updates, so there should never be a reboot and there

Re: random restarts with Big Sur?

2020-11-19 Thread Macs R We
Do you have automatic updating enabled? If the system performs an automatic update that requires a reboot, it will reboot. > On Nov 19, 2020, at 11:03 AM, Jeff Weinberger wrote: > > I upgraded my iMac (21.5 inch, Late 2015) to Big Sur (11.0.1). Since then > it's been restarting every now and

Re: random restarts with Big Sur?

2020-11-19 Thread Carl Hoefs
Did you look at the system log to see why it's crashing? -Carl > On Nov 19, 2020, at 10:03 AM, Jeff Weinberger wrote: > > I upgraded my iMac (21.5 inch, Late 2015) to Big Sur (11.0.1). Since then > it's been restarting every now and then. I've noticed it tends to happen when > I've been away

Re: random restarts with Big Sur?

2020-11-19 Thread Jeff Weinberger
Interesting - thank you! I don't have any locked/secure interfaces, but (sadly) I still use Norton anti-virus and the new version wants to monitor network traffic. Just a little while ago, I grew annoyed with the excessive number of requests for permissions, and shut off network traffic

random restarts with Big Sur?

2020-11-19 Thread Jeff Weinberger
I upgraded my iMac (21.5 inch, Late 2015) to Big Sur (11.0.1). Since then it's been restarting every now and then. I've noticed it tends to happen when I've been away from it for a while (like overnight, or if I go out for a few hours), but it's also happened once while I was working. It's