Template for creating a diagnostics report - I use it every time I have a kernel panic in macOS

Template - Diagnostics Report.md

Automatic advanced systems diagnostics in Mac OS X.

To run the advanced systems diagnostics in Mac OS X.

1. launch Terminal
2. type the following command string: sudo sysdiagnose -f ~/Desktop/

The file generated can range from 5MB to 900MB, and is a tar gzip called “sysdiagnose_(date_).tar.gz”. Extracting the tar ball will reveal many files containing system reports, a system_profiler dump, and the output gathered from tons of different terminal commands, ranging from kextstat, to iotop and fs_usage, to vm_stat, and many others.

Manual less advanced systems diagnostics report

Table of content

0. Remotecontrol info
   0.1. Remotectl list
   0.1. Remotectl dumplist

1. Console.app
   1.1. Panic string
   1.2. var/log/Jamf.log
   1.3. var/log/DiagnosticMessages/2020.11.01.asl
   1.4. var/log/Powermanagement/2020.11.01.asl
   1.5. var/log/system.log

2. Terminal commands
   2.1. grep shutdown /var/log/system.log
   2.2. log show --predicate 'eventMessage contains "Previous shutdown cause"' --last 24h
   2.3. kextstat | grep -v com.apple
   2.4. kextstat

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0. Remotecontrol info

0.1 /usr/libexec/remotectl list

  <insert log>

0.2 /usr/libexec/remotectl dumpstate

Link: [remotectl dumpstate](insert link)

1. Console.app

1.1 Panic string

  <insert Panic string>

1.3 DiagnosticMessages/2020.11.01.asl

  <insert log>

1.4 Powermanagement/2020.11.01.asl

  <insert log>

1.5 system.log

  <insert snapshot of log>

Link: [system.log](insert link)

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2. Terminal commands

2.1. grep shutdown /var/log/system.log

  <insert output>

2.2. log show --predicate 'eventMessage contains "Previous shutdown cause"' --last 72h

  <insert output>

2.3. kextstat | grep -v com.apple

  <insert output>

2.4. kextstat

  <insert output>