Application preferences randomly reset after recent Catalina update
Hi, I have a late 2013 27in iMac 14,2. When I installed the latest Catalina update (it doesn't support Big Sur), some of my preferences were reset. Things like my wallpaper, display settings, and login items remained the same, but the dock, Finder, system theme, etc. all reset to default. Even some applications like Preview and Disk Utility also lost their settings. A system restart seemed to fix it, but it soon returned to its default settings.
I tried resetting permissions for the home folder, but that didn't fix it. Running First-Aid on the Data partition resulted in this error:
Running First Aid on “Macintosh HD - Data” (disk1s5)
Verifying the startup volume will cause this computer to stop responding.
Verifying file system.
Volume could not be unmounted.
Using live mode.
Performing fsck_apfs -n -l -x /dev/rdisk1s5
Checking the container superblock.
Checking the EFI jumpstart record.
Checking the space manager.
Checking the space manager free queue trees.
Checking the object map.
Checking volume.
Checking the APFS volume superblock.
The volume Macintosh HD - Data was formatted by diskmanagementd (1412.81.1) and last modified by apfs_kext (1412.141.2).
Checking the object map.
error: omap entry (oid 0x3541b9): invalid ok_xid (0x800065af38)
Object map is invalid.
The volume /dev/rdisk1s5 could not be verified completely.
File system check exit code is 8.
Restoring the original state found as mounted.
File system verify or repair failed. : (-69845)
Operation successful.
I restored Finder and System Preferences plist files from a TM backup, but the applications seemed to disregard them until a system restart. The only thing I can do to recreate the issue on command is restarting the application with:
killall Finder
or
killall Dock
These are the only two applications I tried it on. They reset their settings until a full system restart, not even killing the process will restore their settings. I was planning on doing an SSD upgrade anyways, so if this is a hard drive problem it's not too big of a deal. Does anyone know what's going on?
iMac Line (2012 and Later)