hello folks. being a hater, i’ve declined to update my m2pro minimac to os26. thus it’s running 15.7.7. for the past three or four months, the system has had severe lock-ups. usually it’s finder. at least once it was the backblaze app. killing the guilty app is of no avail (killing finder is usually difficult anyway). reboot or shutdown just fail. the only solution is to sandbag the machine by powering it off.
on top of this persistent frustration, no trace of what caused the crash can be found in the console log files.
i’ve run hardware diagnostics on the machine twice now. returns clean. seems wrong. obviously something is corrupted in the box. but haven’t found the guilty.
suggestions on how to troubleshoot and perhaps eliminate this would be gratefully received.