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I have recently started experiencing kernel panics at startup and it appears to be associated with one or more kexts, specifically, org.netkas.driver.FakeSMC and org.hwsensors.driver.CPUsensors

First panic:

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
org.netkas.driver.FakeSMC(1315.0)[3C58E8E3-C1BA-320A-8820-ED990E3BB6E4]@0xffffff7f8eea3000->0xffffff7f8eebbfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[CBAE26D8-0ACB-3C1F-8347-FDCA67EC40B3]@0xffffff7f8e795000
org.hwsensors.driver.CPUSensors(1315.0)[B4C3BB08-6CD4-39A7-9283-76EDDCDA3234]@0xffffff7f8eefe000->0xff

Second panic:

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
org.netkas.driver.FakeSMC(1315.0)[3C58E8E3-C1BA-320A-8820-ED990E3BB6E4]@0xffffff7f88ea3000->0xffffff7f88ebbfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[CBAE26D8-0ACB-3C1F-8347-FDCA67EC40B3]@0xffffff7f88795000
org.hwsensors.driver.CPUSensors(1315.0)[B4C3BB08-6CD4-39A7-9283-76EDDCDA3234]@0xffffff7f88efe000->0xffffff7f88f05fff
dependency: org.netkas.driver.FakeSMC(1315)[3C58E8E3-C1BA-320A-8820-ED990E3BB6E4]@0xffffff7f88ea3000

My question is does MFC inject or use either org.netkas.driver.FakeSMC and/or org.hwsensors.driver.CPUsensors kexts?

I think these may be an artifact(s) of a re-install of applications from a HacIntosh Time machine backup and may be curable by simply deleting these kexts but wanted to make sure they were not needed for MFC to function.

As far as I know, MFC doesn't use kext at all.

Great! FYI, I deleted the FakeSMC kext and it appears the kernel panics have subsided.

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