2013 Mac Pro smc question .. can someone validate results?

Is anyone with a 6,1 able to help, by letting me know what their results are?


When I enter this command in Terminal …


sudo powermetrics --samplers smc | grep -i "CPU die temperature"


I get a very curious response:


"unable to get smc values"


On my 2015 MBP the command works well, displaying the CPU temp every few seconds. I am curious to see if the smc is supposed to work on the 2013 6,1 ?? It might explain the kernel panics I have had lately.


Thanks in advance :)

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Posted on May 5, 2025 11:42 AM

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May 5, 2025 12:08 PM in response to go1d1ox

There is no pervasive history of any cooling issue in MacPro dark cylinder 2013.

Post the text of your panics instead.


Kernel Panic Reports are stored in the Folder at:

/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports


If you copy and paste that string into:

Finder > Go menu > Go to Folder


it will take you to the Folder where those reports are stored.


Kernel panic reports are named with Date&Time and start or end in ‘panic’

If you find one, please post as much as you can here, by using the “additional text” Icon in the reply footer (looks like a paper with writing). (Once the report devolves into incessant software-names or incessant Base-64 dumps with lots of AAAAAA lines, you are done.)


Please don’t post more about 20 lines of any other types of reports — they are interminable, and any information useful for this purpose is on the first screenful.


If you post your kernel panic here in its entirety, using the additional text icon in the reply footer, we do have some Readers (typically with developer background) who can attempt to interpret those panic reports. Even if no clear symptom emerges, this can still save a step if you DO need to contact Apple support later, because Apple Support specialists can read the panic reports you posted here, if you tell them what discussion or what Avatar.

May 5, 2025 9:25 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Thanks Grant Bennet-Alder :)

I didn't know that folder existed !


I have 147 reports in that folder, as I had wiped the drive to start from scratch on Apr 26th.


My 'Problem Report for macOS' text from after the recent freeze/shutdown is attached via the requested 'additional text' method, but the rest of the reports were very large, so I figured I'd just zip a copy of them into a shared folder for anyone to access if they can help ... many thanks in advance :)


Zipped contents of DiagnosticReports folder


May 7, 2025 6:36 AM in response to go1d1ox

The panic report is always a machine-check, and includes lots of banks reporting errors (29 in this case). then the report continues to list the status for each processor that detected the offending error. In extremely rare cases, it can identify the module, But I have only seen one report like that.


Your report is not a 'smoking gun'. it is completely un-ambiguous. You have uncorrectable RAM errors. Please read the article about error correction and detection I linked above.

May 10, 2025 6:46 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

OK .. an update ..


I read about my kernel panic situation in a few places and was mostly pointed towards RAM or maybe the CPU or GPU.


I completed the RAM tests I mentioned earlier, and no errors were shown in any of the sticks.


As I had already ordered the (used) CPU replacement, when it arrived I figured I should give it a try.


By now I've opened up the MacPro, done the CPU replacement and noticed that the Thermal Paste was 'not' bonding the CPU to the heatsink .. if I follow this through, perhaps the inadequate cooling of the CPU has caused it to suffer some high temps in the past.


Anyhow after a full reassembly, the Mac is now showing an uptime of 49h, and no kernel panics have occurred. My fingers are crossed for this to be the 'smoking gun' :)


Thanks for the help, Apple Community !!

2013 Mac Pro smc question .. can someone validate results?

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