Aging Mac Pro constantly rebooting
My aging early 2008 Mac Pro is constantly rebooting, almost always when I'm away from the computer. When it reboots, I have to reset audio, which has defaulted to my MOTU Audio Express. The Mac Pro is exhibiting other odd symptoms: Occasionally, upon resumption from inactivity, the keyboard and mouse will have quit working. The Bluetooth Apple Magic Pad continues to function. A restart is the only fix. Also, occasionally, the Mac Pro will refuse to wake from sleep. Sometimes I must do a forced restart to get out of that. Other times, it will wake up on its own after a period of about 30 seconds.
It also seems to go into a harder sleep — rather than the monitors just lighting up as they usually do, it will hesitate a moment and the fans will cycle up loudly.
I was having similar issues months ago. I installed an SSD drive about six months ago, did a clean system install and migrated files over, and everything was working smoothly until the last week or so, and all the problems have resurfaced, with a vengeance. I reinstalled Mountain Lion, but that didn't help. I've considered another clean install or a Time Machine recovery from a month ago, but I really don't want to have to go through that every six months.
Any ideas? I'm half considering buying a new Mac Mini and using the pro as a file server or something.
Here is a copy of the report I get after the machine reboots.
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 27009 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: *********
Fri May 3 05:40:33 2013
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff800c6b7e95): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f8d5c467a, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000040, CR3: 0x000000000ef7f000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0xffffff7f8ccb9d10, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0xffffff7f8ccb2be8
RSP: 0xffffff8118dcbd00, RBP: 0xffffff8118dcbd30, RSI: 0xffffff801f0faf00, RDI: 0xffffff801f17e840
R8: 0x0000000000000001, R9: 0x0000000000000001, R10: 0xffffff801ef63fc0, R11: 0xffffff800ca47120
R12: 0xffffff802264ec00, R13: 0xffffff8118dcbd00, R14: 0xffffff801f386000, R15: 0xffffff8033952948
RFL: 0x0000000000010246, RIP: 0xffffff7f8d5c467a, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000040, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x1
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8118dcb9a0 : 0xffffff800c61d626
0xffffff8118dcba10 : 0xffffff800c6b7e95
0xffffff8118dcbbe0 : 0xffffff800c6cd4dd
0xffffff8118dcbc00 : 0xffffff7f8d5c467a
0xffffff8118dcbd30 : 0xffffff800ca31c77
0xffffff8118dcbd40 : 0xffffff800ca2fc29
0xffffff8118dcbd80 : 0xffffff800ca2e4fb
0xffffff8118dcbdc0 : 0xffffff800ca2e0f7
0xffffff8118dcbe30 : 0xffffff800ca2f75c
0xffffff8118dcbe40 : 0xffffff7f8cc9305b
0xffffff8118dcbe70 : 0xffffff7f8d7a0252
0xffffff8118dcbeb0 : 0xffffff7f8d7a3ad0
0xffffff8118dcbee0 : 0xffffff7f8d7a3fd8
0xffffff8118dcbf40 : 0xffffff7f8d79f3c1
0xffffff8118dcbf60 : 0xffffff800c63dcfe
0xffffff8118dcbfb0 : 0xffffff800c6b2977
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(5.5.5)[A276B40E-978D-3623-93D3-8621B3CEECFC]@0xffff ff7f8cc7f000->0xffffff7f8ccdafff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7f8cc44000
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub(5.5.5)[54546EC2-8891-334B-9626-1EF6A02450DE]@0xfff fff7f8d795000->0xffffff7f8d7a9fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(5.5.5)[A276B40E-978D-3623-93D3-8621B3CEECFC]@0xffff ff7f8cc7f000
com.motu.driver.FireWireAudio(1.6)[00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000]@0xffff ff7f8d56b000->0xffffff7f8d5ecfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(5.5.5)[A276B40E-978D-3623-93D3-8621B3CEECFC]@0xffff ff7f8cc7f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(1.8.1)[FD2B6401-9BFA-32D5-ABEB-E523C061548D]@0xffff ff7f8d426000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.8.9fc11)[AB8DD2DD-43BD-3B7B-95F7-26E6E0BBF339]@ 0xffffff7f8d4ad000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily(4.5.5)[BFC15D10-EE0B-342D-9C00-8BF529DFAA6C]@0 xffffff7f8d4e7000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
12D78
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.3.0: Sun Jan 6 22:37:10 PST 2013; root:xnu-2050.22.13~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 3EB7D8A7-C2D3-32EC-80F4-AB37D61492C6
Kernel slide: 0x000000000c400000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800c600000
System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 1286109662632
last loaded kext at 247210660249: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.8 (addr 0xffffff7f8e947000, size 65536)
last unloaded kext at 307389075113: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.8 (addr 0xffffff7f8e947000, size 57344)
loaded kexts:
com.parallels.kext.prl_vnic 7.0 15107.796624
com.parallels.kext.prl_netbridge 7.0 15107.796624
com.parallels.kext.prl_hid_hook 7.0 15107.796624
com.parallels.kext.prl_hypervisor 7.0 15107.796624
com.parallels.kext.prl_usb_connect 7.0 15107.796624
com.motu.driver.FireWireAudio 1.6 54199
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch 75.19
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.1.3f3
com.apple.filesystems.ntfs 3.10
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.3.7fc4
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.10
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.1.11
com.apple.driver.AppleMCEDriver 1.1.9
com.apple.driver.Apple_iSight 4.0.1
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl 3.3.0
com.apple.GeForce 8.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBDisplays 357
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.6.0
com.apple.iokit.CSRBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.1.3f3
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.5.5
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.BootCache 34
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224 600.36.17
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 5.5.5
com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet 3.1.1b1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 5.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.9.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 5.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.9
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 196.0.0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 4.0.39
com.apple.security.quarantine 2
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 196.0.0
com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver 4.1.3f3
com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver 235.29
com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.6
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.3.7fc4
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 86.0.4
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.1.3f3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.3.7fc4
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.3.7fc4
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.11d0
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio 2.9.0f6
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.9fc11
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.6
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 8.1.0
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 5.3.0d51
com.apple.iokit.AppleBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.1.3f3
com.apple.NVDAResman 8.1.0
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.7
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.3.7
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.4d2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDKeyboard 170.2
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 170.2
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 5.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 5.5.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 5.2.5
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport 3.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.3.1
com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 522.4
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 5.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.0
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 5.5.5
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.8.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.security.sandbox 220.2
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 345
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 28.21
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.7.3
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4
com.apple.kec.corecrypto 1.0
Model: MacPro3,1, BootROM MP31.006C.B05, 4 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 1.25f4
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, PCIe, 512 MB
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x05F7, 0x000000463732323842353245353830304600
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x05F7, 0x000000463732323842353245353830304600
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x0000, 0x000000463732353642363145353830304600
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4, 2 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz, 0x0000, 0x000000463732353642363145353830304600
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x88), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.16)
Bluetooth: Version 4.1.3f3 11349, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet 2, Ethernet, en1
PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-1
Serial ATA Device: M4-CT256M4SSD2, 256.06 GB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0, 2 TB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD20EARX-008FB0, 2 TB
Serial ATA Device: ST3320820AS_P, 320.07 GB
Parallel ATA Device: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D
Parallel ATA Device: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108
USB Device: hub_device, apple_vendor_id, 0x911c, 0xfd500000 / 4
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0409 (NEC Corporation), 0x0050, 0xfd510000 / 6
USB Device: Samsung ML-2510 Series, 0x04e8 (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.), 0x327e, 0xfd513000 / 10
USB Device: Logitech Camera, 0x046d (Logitech Inc.), 0x08ce, 0xfd516000 / 9
USB Device: Apple Cinema HD Display, apple_vendor_id, 0x921c, 0xfd520000 / 5
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, apple_vendor_id, 0x1006, 0xfd400000 / 3
USB Device: G500, 0x046d (Logitech Inc.), 0xc068, 0xfd410000 / 8
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, apple_vendor_id, 0x0220, 0xfd420000 / 7
USB Device: Audio Express, 0x07fd, 0x0002, 0xfd300000 / 2
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8206, 0x5d200000 / 2
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, 800mbit_speed
FireWire Device: iSight, Apple Computer, Inc., 200mbit_speed
FireWire Device: unknown_device, unknown_speed
Do you have TRIM Enabler? what SSD? how much free space? Have you ever done a secure erase and restore on the SSD? When you repair, are you booting from ML Recovery or from a full working system, a clone of your current system?
You might want a small 100GB volume somewhere with another clean install of ML 10.8.3 and with TRIM Enabler - I use my TimeMachine drive which has 800GB free. Also a 60GB sparse disk image of the SSD.
Putting your SSD on a PCIe 6G controller can help, though some have been known to cause corruption.
Repairing only touches the directory so it doesn't tell you if the entire file structure is okay.
A Safe Boot after repair is a good idea to do, then restart again.
How much faith do you have in the 8800GT? think it is time to replace and upgrade to a newer card, from Apple ATI 5770 or higher end AMD 7950 Mac Edition even.
Do you monitor system temps with something? how old are those FBDIMMs? Are they running 65* or less?
You should really have a clone and do a restore every 3 months or so. No need for TimeMachine method. Takes under an hour. And of course all your data is not on the SSD (well, the home library should which is ~/Library where all mail and web and prefs are stored. But all data is not on SSD at all.
Cloning system and using TRIM
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
http://www.bombich.com/software/updates/ccc-3.5.html
http://www.apple.com/support/lion/installrecovery/
Create an OS X Lion Install disc
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20080989-263/how-to-create-an-os-x-lion-ins tallation-disc
How to clone your system:
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
http://www.macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120711_2-MacPro-internal-clone-ba ckup.html
Before you clone, install TRIM Enabler!
And after you clone, run Disk Utility's REPAIR DISK on the SSD -- just to be on the safest side. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37852/trim-enabler
SSD Maintenance
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5012276
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3353
No reason or need for a Mini. Unless you want. Should be fine, though the 3,1's have been the most tempermental with Mountain Lion up until 10.8.3. And you might regret moving to mini if a new Mac Pro were to come out.
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I got my eMac in Aug. 2003: it still runs, it is "adequate" for routine use and will probably remain so for a bit longer. Right now, it is in sleep mode in the next room. I have used that eMac at least 6 hours a day since I got it. (And it's been in screen-only sleep mode most of the rest of the time.) But when I want to "keep up" with Apple technology (and my own needs) - I have to buy a newer Mac with (in this case Intel) newer processor and newer version of operating system and newer versions of critical apps.
"I wonder what the recommended procedure is for running a Mac Pro (or any Mac for that matter). Shutdown at night? Sleep at night?" --
You may find a consensus or "average" answer to that question. I don't believe you will find the "definitive" answer because the Mac Pro is designed to satisfy a variety of personal and business needs. Ultimately: you should establish your own needs and set at least a rough "schedule" during which the Mac Pro is either in sleep mode or running.
Sorry if I seem "vague" - but the above is per my experience. It's all probabilities in the end: probably, you will not have a problem caused by keeping the Mac Pro running "indefinitely." Be consoled the Mac Pro isn't limited to the "unitized" or all-in-one construction scheme; you can replace most vital parts in a Mac Pro yourself.
Personally, I think if I continue keeping, maintaining and using my Mac Pro as I have my previous Macs, I will have this Mac Pro for even longer (4 or more years) than I had the earlier ones.
Also - the "standard rule" for any Mac or PC is to keep backups of your data and to keep a bootable 2nd drive installed in case of emergencies. But you probably have heard that advice a dozen times already.
Regards,
macnoel -
Mac Pro Keeps Rebooting itself
Hello, I am trying to figure out what is wrong with a Mac Pro I have. It is 2.1, 3Ghz Quad Core. It will run for about 30 to 40 minutes then automatically reboot it self. I got it from someone else who told me about the problem, and I am trying to see if I can fix it. When they gave it too me it was already booted up with Leopard, and a bunch of other programs. It would stay on for about 30mins then cut off. I wiped the hardrive, so I could do a fresh install of Snow Leopard. It wiped fine, but when installing Snow Leopard it would get half way through and shut off.
I reset the ram, and even switched the ram out and the same problem. I read that it might be the power that I plug in to, and I have tried different outlets and the same thing. I am not sure what the problem is or what too do next. I did pull the ram out, and it ran fine for about two hours. Ofcourse there was nothing I could do without the ram in it, but it makes me think it is the ram, but I am not sure what else to do, as I have 32gigs of Ram, and I know not all the sticks are bad. Is it possible the tray that the ram is in, can go bad?
If anyone can help me I would appreciate it.There are two things that I can think of that might make the Mac Pro suddenly shut down, then immediately restart.
1) Power cord. The Mac Pro standard power cord (if you are still using that cord) has a large square block of rubbery material around the computer end. This can make it more difficult than usual to fully seat the cord in the computer socket. A loose connection here could cause the behavior you describe, and would not leave a trace.
2) Overheating. This can also make a Mac Pro shut down suddenly. But in this case, i would expect that the shutdown reason would be in the log.
Regardless, there may be some logs of kernel panics or similar problems. Here is how to find them, then cut-and-paste a copy here:
Mac OS X: How to log a kernel panic -
We have 7 new Mac Pro computers running OSX 10.9.5. I got them out of the box and configured them with the following applications:Actual ODBC 3.3.0
Ad Tracker 11.7.7E
Photoshop CS4
Illustrator CS4
Adobe Acrobat XI
Pit Stop 13
There is really nothing triggering these reboots. They've happened when the user is in the middle of an ad. They've happened when the user isn't even sitting at the computer. Below is a crash report. Can any of you Apple experts out there see anything that could be the cause of the reboot?Thanks!--Interval Since Last Panic Report: 16206212 secPanics Since Last Report: 10Anonymous UUID:2FC9CAB3-6A05-ED3E-F604-773A36D57C36Thu Jul 2 20:31:212015panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff80112b8655): Kernel trap at0xffffff801161c884, type 14=page fault, registers:CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000000128, CR3:0x0000000026111000,...
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks CommunityWe have 7 new Mac Pro computers running OSX 10.9.5. I got them out of the box and configured them with the following applications:Actual ODBC 3.3.0
Ad Tracker 11.7.7E
Photoshop CS4
Illustrator CS4
Adobe Acrobat XI
Pit Stop 13
There is really nothing triggering these reboots. They've happened when the user is in the middle of an ad. They've happened when the user isn't even sitting at the computer. Below is a crash report. Can any of you Apple experts out there see anything that could be the cause of the reboot?Thanks!--Interval Since Last Panic Report: 16206212 secPanics Since Last Report: 10Anonymous UUID:2FC9CAB3-6A05-ED3E-F604-773A36D57C36Thu Jul 2 20:31:212015panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff80112b8655): Kernel trap at0xffffff801161c884, type 14=page fault, registers:CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000000128, CR3:0x0000000026111000,...
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community -
Why Does My 5.1 Mac Pro constantly wake up?
this is what my mac pro is metioning. i have wake for ethernet off, theres no alarms scheduled and bluetooth is off. i did a fresh os install and im still having this problem heres what the wake log is showing me:
Sep 18 23:38:51 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 18 23:48:52 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 10:49:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 10:54:45 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 10:59:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:00:34 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:05:34 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:10:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:15:36 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:20:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:29:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:30:34 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:39:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:40:34 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:45:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:54:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 11:55:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:00:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:09:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:10:34 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:19:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:20:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:25:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:34:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:35:34 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:44:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:45:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:50:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 12:59:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:00:34 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:09:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:14:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:15:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:20:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:29:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:30:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:39:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:40:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:45:34 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:54:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 13:55:34 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:04:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:05:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:10:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:19:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:20:34 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:29:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:34:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:35:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:44:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:45:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:50:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 14:59:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 15:00:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 15:09:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 15:10:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 15:15:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 15:24:54 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 15:25:34 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 15:34:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 15:35:35 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
Sep 19 15:44:55 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ? (Network)
it says wake reason ? network but i have no clue what tha is. i am connected to ethernet from a wndr4500 router netgear.Please read this whole message before doing anything.
I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, they may not work as described.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.
Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Triple-click the line of text below on this page to select it:
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}' | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. You can then close the TextEdit window. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that. No typing is involved in this step.
Step 2
Repeat with this line:
{ sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix\.cron)|org\.(amav|apac|cups|isc|ntp|postf|x)/{print $3}'; echo; sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook; echo; sudo crontab -l; } 2> /dev/null | open -ef
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which you do have to type. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type it carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Heed that warning, but don't post it. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
Note: If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before taking this step. If that’s not possible, skip to the next step.
Step 3
{ launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'; echo; crontab -l 2> /dev/null; } | open -ef
Step 4
ls -A /e*/{cr,la,mach}* {,/}Lib*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts .la* 2> /dev/null | open -ef
Important: If you formerly synchronized with a MobileMe account, your me.com email address may appear in the output of the above command. If so, anonymize it before posting.
Step 5
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of login items' | open -ef
Remember, steps 1-5 are all copy-and-paste — no typing, except your password. Also remember to post the output.
You can then quit Terminal. -
Just installed a new intel mac pro - upgraded from my older power mac model - and i notice that it seems to randomly reboot itself. Sometime after a powersave screen shutdown. I am using my old apple display with a converter box. Any ideas welcome. Thanks
Sounds like a hardware issue, possibly an incompatibility with the converter box. You're under warranty -- call AppleCare.
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So my Mac Pro (Early 2008) has had some odd sound issues lately – it doesn't have any.
Occasionally, when the sound goes out, if I try to increase the volume from the keyboard, the transparent volume icon that comes up has a mute symbol under the volume bars, which are all lit up. That only goes away if I switch the output to my MOTU Audio Express. I haven't hooked up headphones to that to see if I'm actually getting audio out through that (I don't have any headphones with a quarter-inch plug, but I suspect I am.
But this morning, I'm getting now sound, but the volume buttons on the keyboard are working normally, ie, the go up and down, but I still get no sound. Interestingly, I also notice that, everytime I go back to Sound preferences, the MOTU is selected, even after I put it on line out or internal speakers.
Is the onboard sound card failing? Do I just need to get a PCI sound card?
I have a feeling I'm going to have to replace this machine before too long. I'm trying to make it until the Mac Pro gets a proper update.Thanks. I tried that, and went almost a week without the problem recurring, but it's back this morning. Slightly different, though. I can't adjust the volume from the keyboard (the mute symbol is back under the volume bars), but I CAN adjust the volume from System Preferences, and it Line Out stays selected there.
What's really strange, and this is new, is that, while I'm getting no sound in Safari, I am getting sound in Firefox. (This is either new, or I never thought to try Firefox before when this issue came up.) Not only that, though, I can't load YouTube videos in Safari. I get a "This video is currently unavailable" message, even though I can call up the same content in Firefox. I can't play mp3s, either. iTunes, similarly, won't produce sound. If I hit play, the speaker icon next to the song looks like it's playing, and the Play button turns to a Pause button, but no sound comes out and the time meter on the song doesn't advance.
I have no idea what to make of all this. -
My 2014 Mac Pro keep rebooting
It halt when I was running Premiere Pro, pressed power button to switch off, unable to restart again.
Tried get in to single user mode ok and fsck and repair disk.
keep going to screen saying it restart because of a problem then the apple then restartIf it says the disk still has problems that could not be repaired, you should ignore the advice they give you. Instead, buy a new External drive with an enclosure to hold it. Install Mac OS X on the new drive. Then Mac OS X is working again and it will be much easier to rescue your files from the old drive.
If the drive is repaired, but does not boot, you can try to Re-Install on top of what is there without erasing. This will replace all parts of Mac OS X with known-good versions, and is INTENDED to not erase anything you created or Installed.
The most Prudent way to Erase and Install is to make TWO Backups (in case one goes bad) then erase the drive and install just as you described. -
Mac Pro will not reboot after Bootcamp attempted installation
I have an older quad-core 2009 Mac Pro. I tried to install Bootcamp before realizing that it's not supported. Now the Mac Pro will not reboot.
It starts up fine. It shuts down fine. But it just will not reboot. When I try to reboot, it just clicks like it's trying to boot to a DVD or a drive that's not there (I have since formatted the drive I was using for Bootcamp and use it for Time Machine now).
This is what I have tried:
- PRAM reset
- SMC reset
What could be keeping my Mac Pro from rebooting properly?? Please help. Thank you!!So you tried with Mac and Windows on same drive?
And you have Recovery partition.
You made a clone with CCC as well and cloned the Recovery
Paragon makes a couple programs to make life easier.
And, Well, Boot Camp works. There are unwritten rules. There is a forum devoted to it.
2009 is not old. Old is pre-2008 due to UEFI / EFI64 and how Windows 64-bit now looks during install.
It did install but the drivers and updates and such might be an issue.
Apple does not support HFS arrays, not just that Windows won't install but to mount, their Apple HFS driver.
You left out so much and maybe your IT didn't include Windows on Mac.
www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
In general pull all your drives during install except that one Windows will be installed on.
Do get video driver from ATI etc yourself
Tell us what version, I assume Windows 8 which works fine other than a few issues - more with MacBook series and iMac or Mac Mini lines. -
Mac Pro 2.66 quad or MacBook Retina 2.7 quad for Logic Pro?
Hi Guys,
It has come time to replace my ageing Mac Pro in my home studio, and I am in a quandry as to what to choose.
Up until now, the sensible choice has always been a Mac Pro, because it allows a number of hard drives (separate drives for audio, and for virtual instruments) to stream at high-speed, which was not possible with a laptop using external USB or firewire drives.
Thunderbolt changes all this, and I'm now wondering whether to replace the Mac Pro with a MacBook Pro 15" Retina, and connect two external drives via Thunderbolt for my audio and virtual instruments...
The alternative is to get a newer Mac Pro, and I've noticed a demo 2.66GHz quad at a great price at my Mac dealer.
I'm really not sure which way to go. On the one hand, I like the idea of just one computer (the MacBook 15") for both studio and non-studio work, as it would mean I no longer need my 13" MacBook for non-music related tasks. I also like the idea of the main drive being SSD in the Retina. The MacBook 15" can be specced with 16GB of RAM, letting go of the previous RAM limits of earlier MacBooks. The downside is that external Thunderbolt hard drives are still incredibly expensive, and I'd need two!
On the other hand, the Mac Pro is brilliant in that it can house all the hard drives I need, is expandable port-wise (although is that really such a big deal these days?), and it would mean I have a dedicated computer in the studio just for music, and can keep my non-music stuff separate on my 13" laptop.
I'd love some thoughts on what will do a better job for me in the studio. Perhaps I've missed a key benefit of one of the approaches above, that actually puts one option significantly ahead of another!
Keen to hear people's thoughts, perhaps from people who have had experience running DAWs on both machines I'm looking at.
Thanks guys!
MikeWhat are you using for an audio interface? It's not just disks...
I have a similar question, currently 8-core MacPro, and a couple of 17" MBPs for live rig and general use.
There's another option, the non-retina MBP...
There's supposed to be new MacPro next year. I would hope it's a serious rethink of the architecture. Internals via thunderbolt connectors for starters? No version of SATA will keep up with that... So... I keep my supposedly long-in-the-tooth MacPro, feed it memory, swap out eSATA card for USB 3, so I can transition external drives to something faster and get away from eSATA connectors - hate those things! OWC has a bootable SSD card that goes in a slot, which is supposedly. Much faster than any version of SATA. It's pricey, and... If I didn't think they'd be doing away with expansions slots as we know 'em, I'd score one of these, but it's a lot of cash for something that may not go over to the nextgen MacPro. I have *no idea* what it's going to be, just looking at a machine today and wondering about what they could leave off a new version, while giving the kind of power and expansion we want in-the-box as opposed to hanging off of it.
I would personally *not* buy a new MacPro today, because I have hopes for what the next one will be.
Laptops, MBPs. Love the power of the new machines! C'mon. Those geek bench scores are ridiculous, so I would score one in a sec, but have to have a strategy for my live rig. Audio interface is FireWire and I run an eSATA card in the express slot for streaming samples (rack mounted drive from Glyph). Oops, the FW audio interface can't connect and there's no express card slot so my streaming performance falls back to usb2 speeds (my Glyph has a quad interface, but not USB3). The non-retina MBP gives a FW port but doesn't have the sexy screen... Assuming cost is not an issue (not true), hanging an SSD off one of the USB3 ports would surely bring good to great sample streaming rates, but still have to get another audio interface, and then strange as it sounds, probably something over USB...
So... I ultimately decided to wait for the market for peripherals mature for the new connectors, usb3 and thunderbolt.
End of story. MacPro=next year and... Pull the trigger on a retina MBP once I'm sure my peripherals are all in place. The MBPs do go out live, so they're in Speck protective cases. Adds bulk, probably ugly bulk to a rMBP, but it beats trusting the roadies at the venue. MBP, audio interface and streaming HD all in a nifty rack case the size of a carry-on bag, even wheels and a trolley handle!
Not really a 1-2-3 answer, but these are my thoughts on the pieces of kit you seem to be considering too... -
Updating your older Mac Pro for a few more years of good use...
Hello everyone, I wanted to share my tips for getting your aging Mac Pro running better for Mavericks and the FCPX 10.1.
Please note your Mac Pro's specs before doing what did..I am an editor and use the 3 big A's to get my work done. Adobe, Apple, Avid (not so much Avid)
I got a great deal on it for only $1300. I did a bunch of research and decided my upgrade options were best for my machine and the way I use it so your upgrade options my differ slightly. (do your research!!!)
I have 2009 Nehelem Mac Pro 2x 2.66 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon. Installed was 6GBs of factory RAM, an upgraded ATI 512 GPU, and 1, 1TB WD Black system drive. (this was a nice upgrade compared to my 4 core Mac Pro)
I was running 10.8 and all my apps were installed and running. I installed 3 more 7200rpm drives to fill the drive bays. Momentus XT's 2TB each.
(I upgraded to Mavericks, as you know it overwirtes the old OS, I wanted the new FCPX...) more on this later.
1- RAM,
I removed the puny 6GBs of RAM it came with and installed 32GBs of 1066 Mhz DDR3 from OWC. I decided 32 would be enough for my needs looking into the App requirments and of course the cost. I noticed a slight difference in some performance. (to my dissapointment) fcpx beachballs!!
However now you will have more RAM to allocate RAM for programs that can read it. After Effects anyone...
link- http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory#1066-memory
2-GPU,
I had a 5770 sitting in the closet, and put that in and bascilly it sucked! I never like the 5770. fcpx beachballs!!
I contacted apple they informed me FCPX is written for GPUs and that a large card (while they didnt suppport it at the time) would be the best upgrade to better performance. So I installed the AMD Sappire 7950 3GB GPU from OWC. This is a monster card! and right away I noticed a huge difference in the perfromace of FCPX and AE! Not only that but the card supports up to 2K I believe... and is a great price... and for you gear heads it looks bad *** and the fan is super quiet!
less fcpx beachballs
link-http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sapphire/100352MAC/
3- Hardrive,
Ok so now I'm thinking my machine is a beast! I have all this RAM and a huge GPU and the top ESATA drives you can buy, butI was still getting beachballs and FCPX was painfully slow at times..needless to say I felt Apple backing my in a corner to drink more coolaid a get the new small round black can...What to do???
As I mentioned before I did not do a clean install....Most folks dont like going through the pain of 2 days to do a clean install but I knew deep down it would have ot be done. Before I did that I decided to do some research on those new SSD cards everyone is raging about. Remeber your Mac Pro's bus speed is only so big...remember this when doing this last and most important upgrade!!
The market has all kinds of SSD drives for sale and OWC has a PCIe option (too much money for me) they have 3G drives 6G drives and so on. I could be wrong but buying a more expensive 6G card is a waste of money with bus speed of the Nehelem (this my differ with Westmere) I bought an of the self Kingston Hyper X 120GB (get at least 240GB if you can) and the OWC Mac Pro Drive Sled.
This by far was the best upgrade! Before installation please go through the pain of the clean install...For Mavericks you need to create a bootable drive on a USB stick first. You then need to monut SSD in an empty enclosure in order to get it to mount for the OS to be installed
OSX install Instructions-http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install -drive.html
link- Drive Sled http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MMP35T25/?utm_source=go ogle&utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_campaign=googlebase&gclid=COyxzMyOub0CFcqUfgo d8xUAPQ
kin
link-SSD http://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/hyperx
PCIe Expansions
H.264 Encoding-
Matrox Compress HD PCIe card, This card is amazing however it does not support Compressor 4.1 but it does support legecy Compressor 3 and I did successfully install both Apps in Mavericks. (You must hide legecy versions in a folder in applications)
ESATA CARD- 4 Port 6G Caldigit esata card.
USB 3.0- Newertech 2 port USB3.0 Mac Pro Card. I dont recommend buying this card. Mac Pro Nehelem, was not made for USB3.0 and the drives I plug into it rarely mount...if ever mount... restart...when they do its a little faster than firewire and close to my Esata options. Dont bother....
I have setup my drive structure as follow.
Drive Bay 1 All System Apps run on the SSD drive.
Drive bay 2 hold the contents of all the Media for my projects.
Drive bay 3 hold all the AutoSaves and the FCPX Libaries and daily Project backups and renders.
Drive bay 4 Is Special Effects drive.
Dual Samsung 27 inch HD displays
M_Audio Monitors
1-3TB Caldigit RAID
12-TBs of drives attached to every port on the back.
2_USB docking ports voyager s3 for archive drives.
Now that I have all these upgrades, a clean install, fresh updates to my softwares, my Mac Pro runs better that ever! My boot ups time is twice as fast as before and my OS is very snappy...Oh yeah FCPX, After Effects, Boris RED, Mail, Safari all open at the same time a running brilliantly!
Many of us are not ready to upgrade to the new Mac Pro, and as we all know the legecy Mac Pro was built like a tank with military grade proccessors and endless upgrade options. It wont ever be as fast as that new black can but I know I will be working faster with my trusty Mac!
Good luck!
basementape filmsSSD Killer-fast Mac Pro
Upgrade RAM to 16GB (4 x 4GB)
Upgrade all the hard drives to 2TB
Upgrade to 10.6.8 and CS5.5
Replace graphic card with ATI 5770
Upgrade the processors with X5355s, which is what many are doing now with theirs.
Forget Lion. Dropped PowerPC and Rosetta code support
Clone your drives.
Keep 40% or more free space on any drive.
Move any non-OS or applications off the boot drive to a data drive.
Move system and apps to SSD
Use SSD(s) for Aperture Library or stripe RAID.
None of the above, sell yours and pick up a 2010 2.8GHz $2100 (people that want or need to run Tiger and PowerPC will likely pay $700 range for MacPro1,1). Upgrade the processor in 2010, with 6-core 3.33GHz $590.
Apple Special Refurbished Mac Pro 2.8GHz Quad
Intel Xeon W3680 3.33 GHz, SLBV2
Intel Xeon UP W3680 3.33 GHz Processor - Hexa-core
W3670 Upgrade photos
At some point, it doesn't make sense to pour money into older system.
But you can, and do it gradually one step at a time. -
Having problem to do "Recovery HD" on Mac Pro?
Hi,
I had Lion 10.7.3 installed on my Mac Pro with four internal harddisks connected to an Apple RAID card. I was trying to re-install Lion by using Lion's "Recovery HD" feature. So I shutdown my Mac Pro and reboot by pressing "Command+R" keys to start up the "Recovery HD". I then selected "Reinstall Mac OS X" from the first startup screen. After confirming the License agreement, I was presented with "Selecting the disk" for installing OS X Lion. This is where I had the problem.
My Mac Pro has four internal harddisks connected to an Apple RAID card. The first disk (1TB) was dedicated as boot disk with OS 10.7.3 installed along with the Recovery HD partition. The other three disks (2TBx3) were setup as one Volume RAID for data only.
And for the Lion re-install on the Select disk screen, it only showed two choices:
1) Recovery HD (which is grayed and cannot be selected),
2) DATA-01 (which is the 3 disks RAID for data only).
There was no boot disk to select from. I don't know what happened why the boot disk was not there. So I returned to the first screen and use Disk Utility to examine all the disks in my Mac Pro. It showed both the boot disk and the DATA-01 (RAID volume) were there. But as soon as I went back to re-install Lion, it only allowed me to select my RAID volume. The boot disk with the original Lion installed was just not there.
Any help what might have happened? Thanks.I don't do RAID stuff, so all I can do is point you to Recovery and About Lion Recovery. Also, see the Related Articles links in the second doc. Maybe there;s something there that'll help. Otherwise, contact Apple's Express Lane.
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Hello people!
Several months ago, i started to notice some problems with USB devices and built-in USB Ports. The problem is started with these symptomes:
After some working, all USB internal USB ports stop to giving power to usb devices. Only works that had power from another powered hubs like in my Apple Cinema Display.
It can causes at any time, but more expectedly at adding some USB devices (nevermind what, even flash card) to built-in ports of a Mac Pro.
And here is the logs:
Dec 30 18:53:24 Viktors-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: 0 0 AppleUSBCDC: start - initDevice failed
Dec 30 18:55:34 Viktors-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Dec 30 19:07:36 Viktors-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: USBF: 1003.270 [0xd45b700] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying. (Port 3 of Hub at 0xfd000000)
Dec 30 19:07:36 Viktors-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: USBF: 1003.443 AppleUSBHubPort[0xfedfe00]::FatalError - Port 1 of Hub at 0xfd300000 reported error 0xe00002ed while doing setting port power
Dec 30 19:07:36 Viktors-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: USBF: 1003.544 AppleUSBHubPort[0x1015ec00]::FatalError - Port 2 of Hub at 0xfd300000 reported error 0xe00002ed while doing setting port power
Dec 30 19:07:36 Viktors-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: USBF: 1003.579 AppleUSBHubPort[0xfedf700]::FatalError - Port 3 of Hub at 0xfd300000 reported error 0xe00002c0 while doing setting port power
Dec 30 19:07:51 Viktors-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Keyboard Hub::terminate(kIOServiceSynchronous) timeout
Dec 30 19:07:54 Viktors-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: USBF: 1021.269 [0xd45b700] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.
Dec 30 19:09:58 Viktors-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: USBF: 1145.583 [0xd45b700] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying. (Port 3 of Hub at 0xfd000000)
Dec 30 19:10:01 Viktors-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: USBF: 1148.583 [0xd45b700] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.
But today this problem fully transform to another way. Now, USB devices are all works normal during work in OS which is Mac OS X 10.7.2 Server. But before it, OS booted two times. First time is a Cold Start, which is loooong and sloow. Especially, my OS booted from a RAID-0 of a two SSD drives (during normal start it takes 2 seconds to boot). Then still during boot procces, all USB devices turned off, and Mac Pro self-rebooted automatically. Second time he booted is normal fast startup without a problem.
These i found using dmesg:
[KLogClient]start(0x12a26f80)
[KLog]neUserClient() client = 0
[KLog]Closing: 0xfe69c00
[KLog]userclient ref: 0 0xfe69c00
[KLog]userclient ref: 1 0x10236000
[KLog]userclient ref: 2 0x1022d900
[KLog]Closing: 0x10236000
[KLog]userclient ref: 0 0x10236000
[KLog]userclient ref: 1 0x1022d900
0 0 AppleUSBCDC: start - initDevice failed
0 0 AppleUSBCDC: start - initDevice failed
0 0 AppleUSBCDC: start - initDevice failed
[KLog]Closing: 0x1022d900
[KLog]userclient ref: 0 0x1022d900
Tried to do some testing. Booting to my second OS (Mac OS X 10.4.11 Server) makes the same effect during cold start. And what strange, in boot logs didn't any mention about what causes to reboot. It also does this double boot even if i turn out all USB devices from ports. Resetting SMC and PRAM, clearing and rebuilding Kernel Cache does nothing. Reported to Appel Bug reports... Can't understand what happens, and what to do... Everything was good before the 10.6.7 update. And it get much worse in Lion.
mac: Mac Pro 2,1 (2007)Hello!
I would start by checking which hub is pointed by the mentionned address (0xfd300000).
Do you have Apple Developer Tools installed? If yes, open “IORegistryExplorer” or “USB Prober” and check which hub is referenced. Then, you could start inspecting its properties.
If you don't have them… well, install them
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