Shutdown error that cannot be pinned down

Here is the issue in a nutshell: My machine has taken to giving me an error dialog that begins with the following on every restart or shutdown and restart, manual or otherwise: > You shut down your computer because of > a problem. If you want to open the applications that were > open when > you shut down, click Open. The research I've done can be found [here](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/467835/pmset-repeat-cancel-does-not-remove-scheduled-events/467855#467855) I figured it was related to the automated wake up operations that keep getting made but, after digging around more, it apparently doesn't. I did find some information on the machine potentially being stuck in a kernel panic mode, but haven't been able to really pin down a potential fix. Any help here would be appreciated