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Kernal_panic_17APR When the system comes up normally, if the settings allow it to go to sleep, I select the sleep option, or it attempts to turn the hard disk off, it reboots with a kernal panic. If I boot the system into safe mode, the touchbar is disabled and I can utilize sleep without issue. I believe changing the touchbar might fix the issue. Does anyone have thoughts?
While it’s not obvious you have two distinct computers in your system! Yes, the primary Intel CPU but you also have a second one which is the micro-controller that runs the Touch Bar. Unless your Touch Bar is damaged somehow I don’t think changing it would fix this. There is a driver within MacOS that interconnects the two. From the sounds of it I would think thats your issue Vs a hardware issue. If we could see the crash report then that might help. Open the Console app in the Utility folder in safe mode it will allow you to access the crash reports. You’ll need to paste it into Pages and then export a PDF file to post it here Adding images to an existing question. You could also just boot up under an external drive rename your system folder and then re-install your OS. Follow this guide to create the needed boot drive How to create a bootable macOS Mojave installer drive
