Howto remove a kext causing panic
After migrating back my data to a 2011 iMac, each time i booted i received a notification that the system had received a panic during poweroff. This was noticable as the iMac no longer shutdown properly. The screen went black, drives powered down but i noticed usb stuff still was active. Only way to clear this was to push the button on the back of the iMac.
After investigating the panic string i noticed a non-Apple kernel extension (kext) called FakeSMC in the traceback. Probably a leftover from my hackintosh? Procedure was to remove that extension and verify :
1/ sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions/FakeSMC.kext
2/ sudo rm -rf com.apple.kext.caches/
Now reboot and voila, problem solved!




