Autonomous operation on mac mini M1 OS12.0.1

stevieb
stevieb
in SecuritySpy

I'm having a bear of a time with what should be very simple: autonomous operation. As instructions describe:

Energy saver = never and no sleep

User and groups = autologin admin and auto open SS

Security and privacy > general = no password required.

I removed com.apple.systempreferences.plist (in case it was corrupted) and restarted, rechecking my preferences.

Despite all this, the screen lock launches after a few hours, and that seems to shut down SS (as well as Indigo). Any ideas?

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  • Ben
    Ben

    If you have turned off the password feature under Security & Privacy > General, then screen lock won't activate automatically. So I suspect that what could be happening here is a kernel panic that is crashing the whole system and causing the Mac to reboot. When it boots back up it takes you to the login screen, but of course at that point all the processes that were running under that login (SecuritySpy, Indigo) are no longer running.

    When you log back in, do you see a message about the Mac having been restarted due to a problem?

    Open the Console app (you'll find it in the /Applications/Utilities folder), and click on the "Diagnostic Reports" option on the left. In the list of log files on the right, do you see any with "panic" in the name? If so, please email them to us and we'll take a look to see if we can determine the reason for the panic.

    Finally, in normal operation, open Activity Monitor, and check both the "Idle" CPU percentage shown bottom-left under the CPU tab, as well as the memory pressure indicator shown under the Memory tab. What is the Idle number, and is the memory pressure anything other than green?

  • stevieb
    stevieb

    No message upon login

    Activity Monitor: Idle CPU 9%; Memory Pressure= green

    In Console>Diagnostics Reports, I don't see any "panic" in the name. But I'll email you everything that seems relevant.

    Thanks!

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