Lion Hangs requiring hard reset

Hi,
I've looked through the forum and not seen this specifically mentioned..
Is anyone else having issues with Lion whereby the whole system becomes unresponsive and has to be power cycled? Since upgrading my Macbook pro and iMac this week and I've had to do it on both machines.
I've seen this caused by Safari (2 occasions) and Finder (2 occasions). On 3 of the 4 times Force quit didn't work and on 1 occasion Force Quit wouldn't even load!
Since it's not a 'crash' I see no reports in Console and nothing explicit to report back to Apple - though I have submitted a feeback form on the subject.
Anyone else seeing similar issues?

Good morning Bomgart!
I like to think being random is a great attribute. Sadly, not when it comes to a phone though. But fear not, because we've got a couple of solutions for one of our favorite couples.
Now, there's no doubt that random dying is an illness that does plague a small minority of devices. But, there's a possibility that it may be due to the equipment itself or potentially something that was installed. Based on your description of things, you're up to date in software. And hard resets are a fantastic route to take when experiencing these issues. But, we want to isolate the problem. What I'm going to recommend is doing another hard reset http://vz.to/Sq8I9x . Only this time, test it out before you load on your applications. Also, you may wish to remove those which may not be entirely reputable (battery savers, task killers, etc.). Please let me know how that goes and while we're on the topic, which device does your girlfriend have with us? I've got you covered.
EvanO_VZW
VZW Support
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Went back to the Apple store and this time the agent was able to do an normal diagnostics (which, by the way is pretty cool how they do it over the internet). The last agent that helped me couldn't run a proper diagnostics because 'the networ was down'. The diagnostics said I was running low on memory a lot and the agent looked at all the apps I had running in the background (lots!!) and showed me how to close them after no longer using them. But he also noticed that the time my iPad had saved for being used and sleeping were identical so he concluded it was a hardware issue and promptly exchanged the ipad! That was pretty awesome too. Overall I'm still very happy I bought an iPad

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Can reproduce the problem on a 20GB 4G and 6GB mini
with another podcast series with chapters
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Good morning Bomgart!
I like to think being random is a great attribute. Sadly, not when it comes to a phone though. But fear not, because we've got a couple of solutions for one of our favorite couples.
Now, there's no doubt that random dying is an illness that does plague a small minority of devices. But, there's a possibility that it may be due to the equipment itself or potentially something that was installed. Based on your description of things, you're up to date in software. And hard resets are a fantastic route to take when experiencing these issues. But, we want to isolate the problem. What I'm going to recommend is doing another hard reset http://vz.to/Sq8I9x . Only this time, test it out before you load on your applications. Also, you may wish to remove those which may not be entirely reputable (battery savers, task killers, etc.). Please let me know how that goes and while we're on the topic, which device does your girlfriend have with us? I've got you covered.
EvanO_VZW
VZW Support
Follow us on Twitter @VZWSupport

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iG3 wrote:
The problem fixed itself since then. And no, I am not running pirated software, I am an Apple Developer. Thanks for your reply. That Post above was a little embarrassing.
Then I assume as an Apple Developer, you had forgotten about the NDA that you had signed?
Stedman

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Do I have any other options.
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Have you tried restoring the software, it is the first thing they will ask in the Apple Store.
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Today, my GPS signal kept malfunctioning. This was unacceptable as I drive all over the place for work. I called Verizon support and they had me do a hard reset.
After the hard reset, I set up my phone again and was unable to access the SD card. I entered my pin, and the following message showed up on my phone:
SD Card Password Protection
SD card has been secured by another device and cannot be accessed unless formatted.
Tap "OK" and:
SD Card Password Protection
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Hi DroidRAzrMaxx0111 - I appreciate you taking the steps to troubleshoot your original concerns and I apologize it had some unintended results! When going to Settings>Location & Security>Data Encryption, is "Storage" currently checked? Is "Encryption key type" greyed out? I look forward to working with you to restore the data!
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YaleK_VZW
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ICS required hard reset, now can't access 32GB SD card

Saw message this morning that update 6.16.211.XT912 had been downloaded and was ready to install...said it would take 15 minutes...
45 minutes later, the only thing I could get was emergency dialer. Powered down, powered up same thing.
Called tech support, tried powering on/off again and then told to hard reset.
So after the hard reset, ICS is there and the phone is working....BUT I had encrypted my SD card (32GB) and now when I try to mount it get:
SD Card Password Protection
SD card has been secured by another device and cannot be accessed unless formatted.
Click "OK" and see:
SD Card Password Protection
Failed to verify SD card security settings. Encrypted content is not accessible.
Click OK" and back to settings screen!
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Thanks in advance.

Thanks to both poidude and b33 for the replies...but not seeing these options. OS is 4.0.4 (ICS) and the phone is a Droid Razr...System Version that crashed the phone on install is 6.16.211.XT912.Verizon.en.US.
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IMac freezing permanently (requires hard reset)

My parent's iMac has been freezing on them recently, after a fresh install of Snow Leopard.   It locks up, the beachball of death appears, and only a hard reset will get the computer running again.
I checked the kernal.log file and this is what I see for the time period of the freeze:
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: ** Device in slot: SLOT--1 **
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: ** GPU Debug Info Start **
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x000094c8
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x000000d6
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00000001
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00000018
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00009062
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00000001
Jun 23 13:23:39: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x000094c8
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00000001
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00000015
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00000000
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00000001
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00000047
Jun 23 13:23:39 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00000000
Jun 23 13:24:24 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00002010
Jun 23 13:24:24 iMac kernel[0]: 0x00020000Jun 23 13:24:24 iMac kernel[0]: 0xc0034300
Jun 23 13:24:24 iMac kernel[0]: 0x88800000Jun 23 13:24:24 iMac kernel[0]: ** GPU Debug Info End **
Does anyone know what could be causing this and how I might fix it?
System Stats:
OsX 10.6.8
Model Name:          iMac
Model Identifier:          iMac7,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          4 MB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          800 MHz
Boot ROM Version:          IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system):          1.20f4
Hardware UUID:          00000000-0000-1000-8000-001B63998AB7
ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT:
Chipset Model:          ATI,RadeonHD2400
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCIe
PCIe Lane Width:          x16
VRAM (Total):          128 MB
Vendor:          ATI (0x1002)
Device ID:          0x94c8
Revision ID:          0x0000
ROM Revision:          113-B2250A-207
EFI Driver Version:          01.00.207
Intel ICH8-M AHCI:
Vendor:          Intel
Product:          ICH8-M AHCI
Link Speed:          3 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed:          3 Gigabit
Description:          AHCI Version 1.10 Supported
ST3250820AS Q:
Capacity:          250.06 GB (250,059,350,016 bytes)
Model:          ST3250820AS Q
Revision:          3.BQE
Serial Number:                      5QE42VFT
Native Command Queuing:          Yes
Queue Depth:          32
Removable Media:          No
Detachable Drive:          No
BSD Name:          disk0
Medium Type:          Rotational
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Verified
Volumes:
Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk0s1
Macintosh HD:
Capacity:          249.72 GB (249,715,376,128 bytes)
Available:          204.56 GB (204,558,282,752 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk0s2
Mount Point:          /

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ACE module hung and required hard reset !!Plz help

ACE module had bit flip and it was hunged after that.I was not able to run any command(i.e For ex if i run show ft status nothing was displayed).I was not able to run any command on the standby ACE as well is this could be both the ACE module ACTIVE?
Manuaaly reboot from the ACE did not work. I had to forced hardare reset from cat 6500.
Is this a bug or strange behaviour?
I am running ACE A2(2.3) version on the module.
Thanks
ALEX

Usually in the case of the bit flip the ace will reset itself, which clears the problem. In order to understand what is happining to your ACE, you would have to open a TAC case, and provide show tech information, as well as any files that were generated in the "core:" directory. You can view these using the command "dir core:"
It seems odd that the standby ACE also wouldn't respond to any command input. Did you have to reset it as well? If you had to reset it as well, then it may have encountered the same conditions that caused the hang on the primary.
Was there any syslog messages generated on the 6500 switch during the time?

Hangs requiring hard reboot

Greetings all,
Where would I start troubleshooting this issue? My macbook will hang periodically, and I have to turn it off to get it back responding.
Things that happen when it does this
1) Mail will start to check, but never actually checks.
2) I can bring up spotlight, and start launching an app - it will appear in the dock, bouncing. It will eventually stop bouncing, but it never opens - the blue dot never appears.
3) In Force quit, I can end tasks, but if I try to relaunch finder, it vanishes from the list, but never restarts.
4) If I have terminal open, and I attempt to launch Top (or another command) it doesn't start. I just get a blinking cursor, and no command prompt.
5) I'll get the spinning beachball of death in the individual apps, but not overall.
6) I can attempt to restart, and it brings up the window with choices, but none of the buttons are selectable (though one appears to be, it isn't).
I've been removing all the weird little autostart stuff.
All of this started after I did a clean install of Snow Leopard. It is particularly prone to happening when the machine comes out of sleep mode.

I had the same setup with the apple BT keyboard and the V270 mouse. I also work with the lid closed and with an external monitor (I bet that you are also using airport)! Both devices seem to intermittently loose connection, and the mouse cursor doesn't track very well. Looking through postings it seems that airport interferes with BT, and the behavior I've seen seems to support this. I stopped using the mouse because I couldn't get it to work adequately. I'v also tried using BT headphones (Motorola HT820) which at best the sound drops out intermittently, and at worse crashes OS X. I'm thinking that BT on the Macbook Pro just marginally works... I'd be curious if you ever had any success with your setup!

HTC Incredible reboot fix that works and does NOT require hard reset

Like many of you unfortunate souls out there I have had my HTC Incredible go into a rebooting loop over the last month or so. The following recounts some observations and and a solution which appears to work.
First off, my son and I both have the same phone and software versions and apps. He does NOT get email on his phone because he does not want to. I do. His phone has NEVER rebooted. Mine has done so numerous times. My business partner also has the identical phone and software version, lives within 200 yards of me, and uses the email and has had numerous reboots and has gotten them even sooner than I saw them at first. My partner and I have set up email attachments and downloads to go to the SD card. So much for background info. Here is what I did to fix the problem followed by some other observations:
Open up the case of the phone and remove the battery
Remove the SD card from the phone.
Put it into an adapter that allows you to access files directly on your computer. In my case this was a Windows PC running Windows 7.
Mount the SD card in your computer and open up the browser to see the files on the SD card.
Look for a folder called ".Mail"
If your phone is like mine you will see hundreds of files, some of zero length. This was even though I had deleted most of the emails I received on my phone.
Proceed to directly delete any of the zero length files. For that matter, you may have other files like jpg's laying around of uncertain origin. I got rid of these and other strange files that seemed attached to no documents at all.
Remove the SD card and reinsert into your phone. Put the battery back in and the cover on then restart the phone. Your phone should run properly and you should not see any negative consequences from the files you deleted previously.
Some other observations relevant to this solution that bolsters my theory that this problem has something to do with the email application and also a problem with file system corruption on the SD card as a consequence of it.
I had previously seen the email application put some mail from a different account I was using into my main account. The files could not be deleted and even trying to do so would cause the mail app to force close.
My son has never seen the problem despite being in the same environment with the same phone and software. Relevant difference to me was that he was NOT using email and I was.
The email app clearly has bugs if it is leaving behind hundreds of files even if you delete the emails. Why? As a software engineer my first instinct would be to look to see if the file system locks were properly synchronized when the email app is writing to the flash file system. I am not conversant in Android OS programming nor the app code itself so this is speculative on my part. I would also look for a timeout on reboots if file system enumerations take too long. Lots of files on a system might trigger a premature timeout and reboot. Once again, this is speculative on my part but I sure wish I had the code to debug this myself.
These issues seem to coincide with a rapid rise in network traffic most likely because of the iPad 2/iPhone support by Verizon. I wonder if this additional traffic load on the network is opening up timing holes in the software because of backoff and retry intervals for certain apps. Once again I suspect the email app especially because it is vulnerable to network traffic issues as it tries to get email account updates.
I could be wrong about my theory as to why the problem is happening. My solution seems to work. As far as pulling the battery and putting it near your AC in the car, that did NOT work for me at all. Leaving the phone out of its protective case also had no effect. Only screwing with the files on the SD card mattered.
I hope this helps.

This problem has been seen for MONTHS now by people besides myself. My business partner is about to put a bullet in his phone because this has been happening for far longer than mine. I have little confidence in a fix anytime soon because this problem has been persistent for some time and there is a lot of denial in the field by Verizon. Verizon has to depend on HTC and Google besides themselves for fixes. How much would you like to wager on how this business relationship is working out? The first step in any solution is for a company to take some responsibility for it and so far no company has.

I have had FF 6.0.2 crash my PC (blackscreen, pc is frozen and unresponsive, requires hard reset) several times in the last two weeks. Ironically, it did this very thing while I was registering in order to ask about this.

I also have had FF close and reopen with the little pop-up about restoring or starting a new session.
I have been using FF since v1, and never have I experienced this issue.
I do not know what other information to provide, but if anyone is willing to help, I will provide any necessary details.

Having disabled hardware acceleration (Tools>Options>Advanced>Browsing), I have not had a crash although it has only been two days.
Hopefully this fixes it and it will work for the others who are having the problem.

10.7.2 Lion freezing / apps lock up, must hard reset 2-3 times daily

I've seen several posts on this -- oddly, some of them are archived even though there has been no resolution...
Would love to hear people's experiences and especially if you have a fix. Would REALLY love it if Apple would get off their duff and give us a working O/S.
Ever since upgrading to Leopard I've been having problems with system stability and, specifically, with lockups. Usually this starts out with a few applications get "hung" (beach ball). Again, usually, I can force quit them, restart and continue for at least a little while... but, it always marks the beginning of a downward spiral. The final straw seems to be when Finder locks up. Once Finder locks, the system becomes unresponsive overall and I can't shut down without doing a hard reset (either cmd-opt-power or, more often, just hold power until a get a hard reboot).
Some of the behaviors I'm seeing:
Apps start to lockup. Best option at this point is to quickly shut everything down and restart. On occasion I get a software restart if I'm prompt about it.
Finder locks up... forget it. Hardware restart is in my future... will generally try to save work, but it seems that anything involving disk / file system access is completely frozen.
About one out of two times, the login screen is very slow to appear (about a 2 minute boot), and then it fails to respond to my wireless keyboard &/or mouse. Sometimes the mouse works, keyboard doesn't. If I wait for 1-2 minutes, it will usually "wake up" and suddenly gets all of the input in one blast... but usually I lose patience, open up the laptop, do another hard reset.
Sometimes the screen saver won't release control of the machine (much like login screen). I can move the mouse, tap keys, etc., screen saver just keeps right on running blithely along...
On rare occasion, even the force quit panel (cmd-opt-escape) refuses to appear.
Of late, I've taken to launching Terminal on login so that it's available (because after the lockups start, I won't be able to launch it). Then, I can issue a "shutdown -r now" which, most of the time, seems to work pretty well. I hate doing a hard reset, always worried it will lead to a damaged file structure or lost work.
I've tried a number of fixed, including (at the height of it) reinstalling 10.7.2, which I did a few days ago. It made no difference at all... Also tried resetting NVRAM, etc. About the only folklore I haven't tried yet is switching to Chrome or Firefox. A lot of people are blaming Safari for all of this, so perhaps I'll try that next...
I'm suspecting that Time Machine is making the situation worse, but turning it off (and disconnecting the drive) does NOT solve the problem. It seems to go a little longer in-between system lockups. Same symptoms... apps become unresponsive, one after the other starts to beach ball, eventually the whole system locks up... I'm wondering if it has something to do with disk access, as posted in other threads. I've been trying to minimize disk access wherever possible, for one, just plugging in my Time Machine drive about once a day, let it backup, then unplug. Not really sure if it's helping or not though.
Currently, I'm running into this on average 3 times daily (worst day was 6 times, best day was just once, yay...) Yes I've been keeping track. By my count I'm also losing up to two hours a day, because the shutdown / reboot process is so baby-sitting intensive (and I have to do it several times a day).
Very, very frustrating. This is definitely the worst O/S release Apple has ever put out there. I'd like to go back to Leopard, but worried about the downgrade... arrrgggh. (Wish Mr. Jobs was still around, somehow I think he would never have tolerated this...)

Cattus Thraex wrote:
Hm... what are the specific issues?
I launch iPhoto, use it a few times, and it hangs, requiring a restart of the iMac;
iPhoto complains that I am not connected to the Internet (when trying to display GPS data) when I am fully connected
Magic Mouse's connection drops about every 15 to 40 minutes of typing, often in this Discussion. Apple Care suggested that keeping my battery charge above 50% would solve it. It didn’t.(My batteries are Apple’s, as is the charger.);
When I return my hand to the Magic Mouse, the active window often suddenly scrolls up which looses the position of the pointer. This can cause problems in graphical apps like InDesign;
Mail's boxes display a small triangle every few days and will not send or receive, requiring Mail to be re-launched;
In Mail I cannot get pictures of people to appear in messages sent by them.
In Mail, stationery does not work properly. Neither of these two is an earth-shattering fault, but having been offered them I wasted a lot of time trying to get them to work.)
Time Machine three times over the last 1 1/2 years (OS 10.5 once and Lion twice) has complained that its HD is full when it is only ~1/2 full. A full reset on the last two did not cure it (I had not discovered Pondini's Full Reset until Lion). Pondini's symptom's and solutions did not match the error. Each time I had to erase and start again;
A couple of months ago, as a test, (after confirming my daily bootable backup of my system done by Carbon CopyCloner), I re-installed Lion from the InstallED.dmg, accepted the invitation to restore from TM, and upgraded to 7.2. All looked well except Mail displayed only the Header and first two lines of the body of messages, all the rest of the bodies were blank. Another major thing did not work after this re-installation (I can't remember the details now);
Carbon Copy Cloner can fail to find its Firewire backup HD about every 10th time (I have a daily schedule). The connections to the drive are plugged in OK but the drive is no longer mounted, whether the iMac has been restarted or woken up. CCC has been absolutely rock solid for years until Lion;
My Canon scanner (current driver, and it always worked before Lion), more times than not complains that it cannot start because it is in use elsewhere. I have to unplug its USB and re-connect.
In SystemPrefs > iCloud, a dialogue box said that Sys. Prefs. wants to use confidential info in my keychain. I press “Deny” and the box returns for ever until I force quit Sys. Prefs.
Software Update repeatedly tells me that a certain update is available but I already have installed it.
For those silly enough to install a new OS within a year of its introduction (not me: my iMac came with the wretched thing in it), some bugs can be expected, but not this many (at least in my opinion). All previous updates going back to 1997 have gone much more smoothly than Lion on my machines.
Although I am in a minority (given the huge number of sales of Lion – although MacWorld reports that sales of Lion are faltering), I am sorry to say that I have fallen out of love with Apple. I would gladly trade the elegance and the fancy features for a bit of “Works out of the box”, “It just works”, “Computing for the rest of us”.

Mountain Lion locks up after sleep, mouse is frozen on screen, requires hard reboot with power button

I have a 2007 Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz macbook pro with Intel 320 160gb SSD installed, and 6GB of Patriot RAM. Machine was working perfectly under Snow Leopard, NO ISSUES AT ALL FOR MONTHS!
After installing Mountain Lion the computer frequently locks up, requiring a hard reset holding down the power button.
The lock ups occur about 10-90 seconds after waking the computer from sleep. Everything will appear normal, i can click through some appliations, start typing somewhere, reading an article, or start watch the ipad mini launch video on apple.com, doesn't matter. Then all of a sudden the computer is just completely locked up. Nothing on screen is working, the mouse isn't even moving the system is completely locked up, and does not recover even if left for several hours. I have checked the logs and there's no sign of a kernel panic.
I have tried creating a new blank user profile, reinstalling from the recovery partition, and the issue persists. I've basically stopped closing my computer when i can avoid it, and the rest of the time i have about a %50 chance that i'll be able to work when i open my computer instead of having to do a hard reset.

With the 2007 macbookpro the optical bay was IDE. One of the upgrades i had made was an IDE to SATA adapter that held another sata hard drive in place of the optical drive(which had died). Even though this setup worked flawlessly under snow leopard, the IDE to SATA adapter seemed to be causing some issues with moutain lion when resuming from sleep. After removing the adapter and second hard drive, i have not had the computer lock up on me since.

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