Big Sur 11.1 installation from Catalina now crashing & rebooting since upgrade.

Big Sur 11.1 crashes and reboots every few hours after 5k 2019 iMAC running Catalina 10.15 upgraded to Big Sur 11.1. What is fix? Any work arounds or fixes for Big Sur 11.1 crashes?

Posted on Jan 2, 2021 9:53 AM

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Posted on Jan 3, 2021 6:08 AM

Could be ill-advised system modifications that worked in Catalina but don't in Big Sur, or it could be some random corruption during the install.

Sort out any system modifications you might have or try reinstalling Big Sur.

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Jan 3, 2021 6:08 AM in response to hbrooks2

Could be ill-advised system modifications that worked in Catalina but don't in Big Sur, or it could be some random corruption during the install.

Sort out any system modifications you might have or try reinstalling Big Sur.

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Jan 3, 2021 6:44 AM in response to hbrooks2

Currently I have 2 Mac mini M1; on one I upgraded to BigSur 11.1; unfortunately I had problems with some applications (confirmed by developer). Eventually I decided on the 2nd one I decided to keep 11.0.1 (the system pre-installed when I bought it).

maybe BigSur 1.1 not stable enough?

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Jan 5, 2021 9:36 AM in response to hbrooks2

I ended up spending yesterday totally reformatted the iMAC, restored data and reinstalled applications(after arlier attempts to reinstall only Big Sur... did not solve the problem). I did find at least two problem applications but these are working fine on a MacBook Pro I also upgraded Big Sur from same release of Catalina. The MacBook Pro still is running with no issues after its upgrade, although to be safe I have also removed the problem applications from this system as well.

So far so good. I assuming problem solved.

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