Frequent system freezing. Restart computer message, followed by beeps during startup
For the past few weeks I've been having repeated crashes on my MBpro 4.1, with OSX 10.6.8, fully updated. The system randomly freezes and I have to force a restart. Sometimes the system does not restart but gives a series of beeps remaing on black screen. If I let it rest a while it then starts properly.
I did a complete reformat and fresh install with only the basic software I need but the problem has not been resolved.
I have already tried changing the memory modules, without solving the problem.
Any kind advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
ooInterval Since Last Panic Report: 96747 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: 5B15A9F4-1502-4E18-8DF1-5960113BDBAB
Mon Feb 25 19:02:13 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2abf6a): Kernel trap at 0x5bef6f30, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x8c558b88, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x46d04005, EBX: 0x00010005, ECX: 0x46d04004, EDX: 0x00010001
CR2: 0x8c558b88, EBP: 0x5c15b4e8, ESI: 0x00000000, EDI: 0x00000000
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x5bef6f30, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x017e0010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x5c15b238 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x5c15b26c 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x5c15b288 : 0x2abf6a (0x59e3d0 0x5bef6f30 0xe 0x59e59a)
0x5c15b368 : 0x2a1a78 (0x5c15b380 0x0 0x5c15b4e8 0x5bef6f30)
0x5c15b378 : 0x5bef6f30 (0xe 0x48 0x5c150010 0x10010)
0x5c15b4e8 : 0x5bef895b (0x0 0x0 0x10000 0x1)
0x5c15b578 : 0x5bef8fcc (0xa803804 0x0 0x0 0x10000)
0x5c15b9e8 : 0x315981 (0x8867784 0x71f2f80 0x7b7cb64 0x0)
0x5c15ba48 : 0x3175ce (0x0 0x0 0x10000 0x0)
0x5c15bb18 : 0x42e6d5 (0x5c15bbbc 0x5c15bb7c 0xa373b64 0x0)
0x5c15bb98 : 0x2ff592 (0x5c15bbbc 0x3 0x5c15bbe8 0x58a167)
0x5c15bbe8 : 0x2f4d98 (0x8867784 0x5c15bc2c 0x8 0x5c15bc68)
0x5c15bc88 : 0x2f4e63 (0x0 0x8867784 0x56cca000 0x0)
0x5c15bce8 : 0x47c8fb (0x0 0x8867784 0x56cca000 0x1000)
0x5c15bec8 : 0x47cbe6 (0x454 0x50 0x4 0x2a45c9)
0x5c15bf38 : 0x47cd4a (0x8e39a80 0x5c15bf50 0x7149804 0x3)
0x5c15bf78 : 0x4f82fb (0x8e39a80 0x6c16a68 0x7149804 0x1)
0x5c15bfc8 : 0x2a251d (0x6c16a64 0x0 0x10 0x6c16a64)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib(1.0.0d1)@0x5bef5000->0x5befafff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: launchd
Mac OS version:
10K549
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro4,1 (Mac-F42C89C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 196210018499
unloaded kexts:
(none)
loaded kexts:
com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard 5.8
com.digidesign.iokit.DigiDal 9.0.3f4
com.roxio.BluRaySupport 1.1.6
com.apple.filesystems.cd9660 1.4.1 - last loaded 150101017708
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.3d0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.1.0
com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.6.3
com.apple.driver.AppleTyMCEDriver 1.0.2d2
com.apple.driver.InternalModemSupport 2.6.2
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.57
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelYonahProfile 14
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.7
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPenrynProfile 17
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.20
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelNehalemProfile 11
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.0.5f14
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.1.6
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx 423.91.27
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 2.10.6
com.apple.GeForce 6.3.6
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.1d2
com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2 3.2.1b1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMeromProfile 19
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224 428.42.4
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 4.7.0a1
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.0.46
com.apple.kext.AppleSMCLMU 1.5.2d10
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons 201.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver 201.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 201.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 303.8
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 2.6.8
com.apple.BootCache 31.1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.7.3
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 4.2.0
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 1.6.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 160.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 142.6.0
com.apple.security.sandbox 1
com.apple.security.quarantine 0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 2.1.14
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 142.6.0
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction 17
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction 14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction 20
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 74.2
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver 2.0.5f14
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.0.5f14
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.3fc2
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.10d0
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.0.3
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily 41
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.0.5f14
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.0.5f14
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 320.1
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 1.10
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.7.0a1
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.0.1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.0d5
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 6.3.6
com.apple.NVDAResman 6.3.6
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.2.1
com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.4.5f3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 2.4.5f3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch 207.7
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 4.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 4.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 2.6.8
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 2.6.8
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com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.6.1
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com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 2.0
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.2.6
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 4.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 4.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.6
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.4.0
com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.6.6
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
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com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.3.6
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.3.0
Model: MacBookPro4,1, BootROM MBP41.00C1.B03, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.27f3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8C), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.42.4)
Bluetooth: Version 2.4.5f3, 2 service, 12 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: FUJITSU MHY2200BH, 186.31 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-867
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x1a100000 / 2
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x820f, 0x1a110000 / 4
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8502, 0xfd400000 / 2
USB Device: Microsoft Notebook/Mobile Optical Mouse 2.0, 0x045e (Microsoft Corporation), 0x007d, 0x1d100000 / 2
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x5d100000 / 3
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0231, 0x5d200000 / 2
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Operating on OS SNOW LEOPARD, IMAC, upgraded to OS LION and system froze and hanged several times indefinitely! Did a Harddisk erase and reformat and Re-installed OS LION 4 times already problem still occurred! What happen? The tips from Imac graphics firmware update 1.0 didn't help either, same problem occurred! Stuck with current situation, please help! Is this the end of my 3 year old iMac? I am afraid about the life span and durability of my iMac. Please help.
OS LION pride!Hi,
Check the logs (using the Console application) for a "GPU Debug Info Start" message followed by a long memory dump. If you find it then you might have been the victim of a very buggy video driver. Lots of people are having this issue but Apple doesn't seem to care.
See this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15676049 -
I have installed OS X Mavericks on macbook pro, macbook air & iMac but I am having terrible trouble with apple Mail. I need to take all accounts online frequently OR worse I have to quit mail and restart computer. Is anyone else having problems?
I just checked to see if the update to OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 solved any of the issues outlined in my previous post, and to my dismay, nothing has changed -- all of the previous problems persist.
My iMac (8) -- it's renamed itself eight times since the recent troubleshoot with the Apple tech rep -- shows up as a shared device in Finder on my MacBook Pro, but when I click on it, I cannot establish a connection using "Connect As". So I've attempted to connect using the menu "Go/Connect to Server...", using both (alternately) the iMac's name and IP address, to no avail. I get a message which reads: "There was a problem connecting to the server 'Peter's iMac (8)'. This server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again."
Here's what I know:
The server -- Peter's iMac (8) does exist;
The server -- Peter's iMac (8) is available at this time;
The server name -- Peter's iMac (8) -- is correct, as specified in the system sharing preferences;
The server IP address is correct, as specified in the system sharing preferences;
The network connection is active when I attempt to connect.
I'm convinced the problems stem directly from the OS X Yosemite update. None of this was ever remotely an issue in the previous OS X's -- any of them. This is maddening! What can be done? Apple?? Anyone??? -
Strange complete system freeze with no log messages
After the latest pacman -Syu, I've been having problems with hard freezes which leave no error messages on any of the log files in /var/log.
I have checked /var/log/everything.log, errors.log, Xorg.0.log, dmesg.log, kernel.log, and messages.log, but none of them indicate any problems.
In the three occasions when the system has frozen, it has occurred when I press the "enter" key (twice while browsing the web, and once in gnome-terminal), but pressing the "enter" key does not always freeze the system. In particular, it has not been a problem when logging in via GDM.
OK, the system crashed twice again after pressing enter while typing this post. Now, I'm resorting to copying and pasting new lines.
As I've already said, log files show no errors or any messages which indicate this sort of problem. The screen simply freezes, there is no hard-drive activity, there is no response to keyboard or mouse inputs, I cannot switch to other tty screens. Unfortunately, my keyboard doesn't have lights for numlock, etc., so I cannot do the keyboard lights trick to check for kernel panic.
This all happened just after the most recent package upgrade, so I'll post which packages were upgraded here:
[2009-12-11 10:47] synchronizing package lists
[2009-12-11 10:47] starting full system upgrade
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded heimdal (1.2.1-7 -> 1.3.1-2)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded libcups (1.4.2-1 -> 1.4.2-2)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded cups (1.4.2-1 -> 1.4.2-2)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded enchant (1.5.0-1 -> 1.5.0-2)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded evolution-data-server (2.28.1-1 -> 2.28.1-2)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded gen-init-cpio (2.6.17-3 -> 2.6.32-1)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded ghostscript (8.70-2 -> 8.70-3)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded tdb (3.4.3-3 -> 3.4.3-4)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded smbclient (3.4.3-3 -> 3.4.3-4)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded gnome-vfs (2.24.2-1 -> 2.24.2-2)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded gstreamer0.10-bad (0.10.17-2 -> 0.10.17-3)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded neon (0.28.6-1 -> 0.28.6-2)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins (0.10.17-2 -> 0.10.17-3)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded gtk2 (2.18.3-2 -> 2.18.4-1)
[2009-12-11 10:59] >>please run /usr/sbin/cups-genppdupdate
[2009-12-11 10:59] >>and restart cups deamon
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded gutenprint (5.2.4-1 -> 5.2.4-2)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded kbd (1.15-2 -> 1.15.1-1)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded libburn (0.7.2.pl01-1 -> 0.7.4.pl00-1)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded libcddb (1.3.2-1 -> 1.3.2-1.1)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded libv4l (0.6.3-1 -> 0.6.3-2)
[2009-12-11 10:59] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20090616-1 -> 20091206-1)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded pm-utils (1.2.6.1-1 -> 1.2.6.1-2)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded subversion (1.6.6-1 -> 1.6.6-2)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded telepathy-glib (0.9.1-1 -> 0.9.2-1)
[2009-12-11 10:59] upgraded xorg-server (1.7.2-2 -> 1.7.3-1)
Any ideas?
Last edited by samjh (2009-12-11 12:41:49)libmcCain wrote:
What do you mean? If you don't use GDM, you don't put it at all!
Anyway, I removed GDM from rc.conf and startx from console. So far so good, no hard freeze in one week.
Edit: Sojek you also have hard system freeze yet you don't use GDM? Does your hard freeze occurs when you hit enter?
you can also start gdm from the inittab.
# cat /etc/inittab
# /etc/inittab
# Runlevels:
# 0 Halt
# 1(S) Single-user
# 2 Not used
# 3 Multi-user
# 4 Not used
# 5 X11
# 6 Reboot
## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
#id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
id:5:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 linux
# Hypervisor Virtual Console for Xen and KVM
#h0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 hvc0 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
# Example lines for starting a login manager
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null
# End of file
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