DTrace appears to fail in Snow Leopard

I am trying dtrace for the first time in Snow Leopard (just installed) and I am getting the following error, no matter how simple .d script I run:
dtrace: failed to compile script syscallsperproc.d: "/usr/lib/dtrace/darwin.d", line 282: thread_id is not a member of struct thread
I tried to upgrade Xcode as well, hoping that will update dtrace front-end as well, but the error didn't go away. I tried to comment line 282 for testing, and other data structures seem to have problems in darwin.d and other .d internal scripts. Does anyone else have this issue?
Any insight is appreciated - thanks.

On the same script I still get the error:
sudo dtrace -n 'syscall::read:entry {printf("%s",execname);}'
dtrace: invalid probe specifier syscall::read:entry {printf("%s",execname);}: "/usr/lib/dtrace/darwin.d", line 282: thread_id is not a member of struct thread
My dtrace and command library are different, and I wonder why:
ls -l /usr/sbin/dtrace
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 93584 Aug 1 02:59 /usr/sbin/dtrace
ls -l /usr/lib/dtrace
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1452 Sep 18 12:22 chud.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1558 Sep 18 12:22 coreprofile.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12707 Sep 18 12:22 darwin.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1004 Sep 18 12:22 dt_cpp.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7011 Sep 18 12:22 errno.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9528 Sep 18 12:22 io.d
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 44768 Sep 18 12:22 libdtrace_dyld.dylib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5017 Sep 18 12:22 regs_ppc.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2526 Sep 18 12:22 regsx8664.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2634 Sep 18 12:22 sched.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2738 Sep 18 12:22 signal.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1973 Sep 18 12:22 unistd.d
My kernel version is:
uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386

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When I try to boot from an external HD with 10.6 installed I get a kernel panic "unable to find a driver for this platform". My internal drive has 10.7 installed. Any suggestions as to how to resolve the issue?
Here's a bit of background. I have some files on my computer that are produced by applications no longer supported on the Mac. They worked fine under Rosetta with 10.6 but when I upgraded to 10.7 and Rosetta was dropped, so did my ability to access the files. I'm really keen to be able to at least open the files and see if I can export them to useful format, or even print them.
Today I purchased an external 1TB HD in the hope that this would solve my problem. I intended to boot up using Snow Leaopard. I installed it using the DVD purchased as part of the Mac Boxed Set a while back. There are two partitions on the HD, a 50GB section with 10.6 on it and a 950GB which is blank.
When the installation was complete the Mac automatically rebooted. Unfortunately it panicked midway through the restart. I've tried re-initialising the drive and checking the firmware. Everything seems ok there. I'm not sure what to do next.
Peter

Well, the clone didn't work. I copied the following files/folders to the external as advised by CCC:
/Library, /System, /bin, /etc, /mach_kernel, /private, /sbin, /tmp, /usr, and /var
There was a panic on startup with the following info displayed:
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff7f807b1f9a): "No HPETs available...CPU(s) configured incorrectly\n"@/SourceCache/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement/AppleIntelCPUPowerMana gement-167.3/pmThread.c:156
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff807987bef0 : 0xffffff8000220702
0xffffff807987bf70 : 0xffffff7f807b1f9a
0xffffff807987bfb0 : 0xffffff8000820057
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement(167.3)[E08EC0D7-C364-3C57-A377-88 7B36241B1C]@0xffffff7f807ac000->0xffffff7f807d5fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
Not yet set
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.3.0: Thu Jan 12 18:47:41 PST 2012; root:xnu-1699.24.23~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 7B6546C7-70E8-3ED8-A6C3-C927E4D3D0D6
System model name: iMac8,1 (Mac-F227BEC8)
I will try installing a copy of the 10.6.3 operating system on my firewire HD and see if that works.

Time Machine failing on Snow Leopard

Hi all
For some weeks now Time Machine has been telling me that it is unable to back up because there isn't enough space on the allocated hard drive. I am on OSX 10.6.8 and am backing up to a 500GB internal hardrive, which I appreciate isn't large (I am a photographer and shoot around 20-30GB per job), but I regularly remove the work to two other backups to keep the main hard drive (that I'm backing up with Time Machine) free for current work only. I have now excluded almost everything from the backup apart from my images, my documents and the library - a total of only about 400GB according to the information on folder sizes. And I have even completely cleared the back up hard drive using Disc Utility, and renamed it. Yet it is still refusing to back up. It is telling me the following:
Time Machine Error. This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 509.65 GB but only 499.32 GB are available.
Yet it has estimated itself that the backup is only 450GB, (even though the folders are actually only 400GB in total).
It's almost as though Time Machine needs its own cache removing - but nothing I do seems to work.
Anyone come across this before?
Thanks for any advice.
Rob

Hi there,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the artilcle below helpful.
Time Machine: Troubleshooting backup issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3275
-Griff W.

802.1x Authentication has Failed after snow leopard upgrade

Hello Apple Community,
I have a mid 2009 MacBook 4 GB of RAM on INTEL CORE DUO 2.
I upgraded my OS X to 10.6 from 10.5.8 and after completing the upgrade I have not been able to use my Airport. Can anyone help me get this problem fix?
Paul

what is it saying? is there an error?
Maybe take a look at
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/views/article.php/3899996/How-to-Use-Enterprise-W iFi-Encryption-and-8021X-in-Mac-OS-X.htm

MacBook Pro screen flickers and freezes after Snow Leopard/Safari 5 updates

Hi guys,
I have a silver 120GB 15-inch MacBook Pro from Summer 2007 with 3GB RAM and 25+GB free space which has recently begun to freeze irrecoverably. The first appearance of these symptoms seems to coincide with my installing the Snow Leopard 10.6.6 update via Software Update.
I'm not particularly well versed in computer technology, but will try to describe my problem as detailedly as possible.
What happens is this:
1. I start the computer as per usual, with only a couple of startup items. Everything's fine.
2. I start working. Use a lot of Safari 5 for browsing websites, often with some kind of Flash or "Flash-type" content such as banner ads, videos, even full Flash designs. I may also have programs such as QuickTime, VLC or an image editor open, if not necessarily "actively" doing anything. Everything's still fine - I'm able to both browse websites and watch videos as usual.
3. After a while of active working - say, 1-3 hours - I notice browsing websites gets a little choppy. Display features such as the file list view in Finder may or may not appear properly. The rotating wait cursor may or may not appear from time to time.
4. Immediately after symptom no. 3, the next time I start to watch a video, either via Safari 5 (say for example something on DailyMotion.com) or a file via QuickTime, something goes wrong.
Following no. 4, one of three things invariably happen:
5a) The video freezes and the entire screen flickers from black to the screen view very quickly two or three times, after which the computer or screen appears to freeze. The cursor still moves, but nothing reacts to it - open windows become completely unresponsive, nor does the top or any other menu react in any way to clicking. The "menu row" of application items, which normally appears when I move the cursor to the very bottom of the screen, doesn't appear. Restarting "blindly" by pressing the Off-button once and pressing R doesn't work. I'm forced to do a hard reboot, after which the computer is once again fine until the next two hours of active working. This usually happens ONLY when I try to watch a video in Full Screen-mode.
5b) I notice the video freezing only just in time, and am able to pause it and "esc" out of Full Screen-mode, and the computer remains operational. However, as soon as I again try to play video in Full Screen-mode, everything described in 5a. happens.
5c) The video stops playing, and the screen reverts momentarily to pale blue before switching to the login screen. I login again with my details, and everything appears to be fine again until the next two hours of active working. The computer "starts up" a lot faster than with a hard reboot. This usually happens ONLY when I've tried to watch a video in its original size, i.e. when not in Full Screen-mode.
This happens 1-4 times a day, and it appears to depend directly on how much work I've been doing on the computer. The less I use it in the course of a day, the longer it takes until the next time it freezes.
So, in a way, I'm able to replicate this problem. 95% of the time the screen has frozen while watching or starting to watch (usually already when starting to watch) video footage, but it has also frozen a couple of times just switching between e.g. Safari 5 and an image editor or browsing a website with a Flash banner ad or embedded video content (which however hasn't necessarily been playing); today, the screen froze when I tried to open a website made entirely with Flash.
Although it could be just a coincidence, I believe this issue first appeared when I updated Snow Leopard to 10.6.6 via Software Update alongside some other pending updates, including as far as I recall one for Safari 5. The update process appeared to have gone well at the time, though, and was not interrupted in any way. I have never had this specific problem with the computer/screen before, though.
I've read a couple of threads here regarding very similar issues with newer MBP models than mine, in which it has been suggested that the fault may lie in a malfunctioning NVIDIA GeForce graphics card. Now I've had that replaced already once because my screen went unexpectedly completely blank after a forced reboot 1-2 years ago (I don't remember exactly), but according to my System Profiler info the card still a GeForce 8600M GT. Can it be failing again?
I've also had some kind of a RAM card failure once. As far as I understood it, one of the RAM cards had fried and was preventing the computer from starting up. I replaced the bad 1GB card with a new 2GB one and the problem was resolved. Before the computer died, there were also other symptoms, but they were not similar to these.
I'm also doing the Apple Hardware Test tomorrow. Any other suggestions, though, than the graphics card?
*Could this have to do with Flash or Safari 5?* Just hear me out. Even though my computer has frozen from watching a video in just QuickTime, Safari 5 has always been open in the background at the same time, and more likely than not with websites with "Flash" content open. And come to think of it, before I performed the Snow Leopard and Safari 5 updates, I used to have daily problems viewing Flash video in Safari 5, the video content either suddenly showing up as "Plug-in Failure" or crashing the browser; I've had both Safari 5 and the Safari 5 Flash plug-in "quit unexpectedly" countless times in the past, almost daily. Sometimes the "Plug-in Failure" could be fixed just by refreshing the browser view; at other times, Safari 5 would stop showing Flash content altogether - Flash banner ads (such as Google ads), YouTube and other Flash videos, everything - until I quit and restarted Safari 5. BUT - since the day I updated everything via Software Update, I don't remember this happening; it never gets to "Plug-in Failure" now. Could it be worth trying to use e.g. just Firefox for a while or is there something (e.g. Adobe Flash) that I could try reinstall? Or am I just clutching at straws here?
Thanks for reading this long, long post!

Do you have access to an Apple Store? If so, it may be worth making an appointment at the genius bar and having them run the test for the NVIDIA problem. Since your replacement logic board still has the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 M GT video chip, it could be starting to happen to your replacement logic board.
I also agree with all of CMCSK's suggestions. Freezing is often associated with hard drive problems. You might also want to run SMART Utility:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/smartutility.html
You can download the demo and run it several times for free. It will give you a very comprehensive view of the physical health of your hard drive. If you still have the original one from 2007, it's getting pretty long in the tooth and may be approaching the end of its average useful life of 3-5 years. I just recently had to replace my original 2007 Fujitsu drive.
If your drive is headed south, and is also too small, it may be time to upgrade to a larger and faster drive.
The software update probably didn't cause the problems, but it may have exposed problems that were already in existence.
Good luck!

Suggestions for Safely Installing Snow Leopard

Many users seem to be having problems upgrading to Snow Leopard. Here is a suggested installation procedure to minimize problems:
1. Repair your hard drive and permissions:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger, and 4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Make a cloned backup of your startup system to a freshly formatted drive - external or internal.
How to Clone Using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means your extra internal or external backup drive.
Source means your current startup drive.
3. Upgrade to Snow Leopard on the backup drive.
4. After upgrading to Snow Leopard restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Snow Leopard drive and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
After booting into Snow Leopard you can check everything out to be sure everything is working properly. If you have any problems you cannot resolve then simply restart from your Leo system on your regular startup volume.
When you install Snow Leopard I suggest that you first disable all third-party startup and login items, third-party contextual menu items, input managers, preference panes, and Internet plug-ins as many may be incompatible. During installation do not touch the computer except to reply to a dialog. Wait for everything to finish normally.

Kappy many thanks for the posted advice on SL, which I followed, thanks to being directed here from replies to my own post on my SL install problems...
I did as you suggested - repair the hard drive and permissions, then created a clone by making a new partition (Macintosh HD_2) and installed SL on that, and it all went fine
However, I now have my active SL installation on a the partition called Macintosh HD_2, and I still have all the old OSX install on the original Macintosh HD. The system is def running on SL, loaded from HD_2.
My question is, can I just delete the original OSX install, and if so, do I just delete that partition, to recover the disk space? I presume I can just extend HD_2 to gobble up the available space when Macintosh HD is deleted?
(Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD_2 are of course partitions on the integral hard drive)
Your advice would be much appreciated...

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