Import seems to cause whole-system crash

Attempting to import photos via an SD card-reader crashes the entire system, not just the app. I spent yesterday fidgeting around in Safe Mode, trying to send the white screen of death back to its cave so I can use my computer again. I've found plenty of app-crash threads, but has anyone else had their entire computer crash like this? Were you able to fix it?
Thanks for any help you're able to give.

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#'''(OS X 10.6 or previous)''' Click the '''Finder''' icon in the dock. Your home folder will be selected. In the right side of the window, click the Library folder to open it. Then open the "Application Support" folder, the "Firefox" folder, the "Crash Reports" folder and finally the "submitted" folder.<br>'''(OS X 10.7 or above)''' Click the '''Finder''' icon in the dock. On the menu bar, click the '''Go''' menu, hold down the '''option''' or '''alt''' key and select '''Library'''. A window will open containing your Library folder. Then open the "Application Support" folder, the "Firefox" folder, the "Crash Reports" folder and finally the "submitted" folder.
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Whenever I plug my ipod into the aux line on my Pioneer sound system in my car, the whole system crashes. WHY??

It didn't used to. It doesn't matter if the battery is full, empty, or in between. Even if the system has been playing Sirius for a long time, as soon as I plug in my ipod, the whole system crashes, restarts, crashes, restarts, etc. What can I do??

Try connecting another device.
You can also try:
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ITunes causing whole system to freeze?

Hi
There are a lot of questions on this forum which are similar to this, but I have not found one that actually replicates the same problem in the same conditions.
Today I was listening to iTunes and had a bunch of other applications open. For no apparent reason, the whole system froze up on me. By this I mean: the mouse no longer responds, keyboard no longer responds, the colon that flashes the seconds in the clock stops flashing (I have that turned on so that I can see when the machine is really frozen), and all the keyboard-shortcuts like Option-Command-Esc (Forced Quit dialog) or Ctrl-Eject fail to work. Even the Ctrl-Command-Power doesn't work (for forced Restart): instead I have to hold the power button for a few seconds and the computer shuts down, but does not restart. (This is what I mean by the 'whole system freezing'). There is no warning, no beachball spinning, and the G5 does not even seem particularly hot (the fans were not blowing hard). So I am completely at a loss to understand what's going on.
Thinking this was a one-off event, I restarted, ran a "Verify permissions" and "Repair permissions" (was this a mistake?) and ran a few applications (Mail, Safari) all of which worked fine. Then I opened iTunes again. It opened OK. I then closed the window, which worked. Then I quit iTunes. This caused the whole system to freeze again, exactly as before.
I have repeated this cycle a couple of times. iTunes will open, will even start playing a song, but on Quit the whole system freezes.
More recently I found that the system froze with iTunes just playing a song.
What then happened was that I looked for help on this forum, found too many cases of iTunes doing strange things but none with my configuration, and thought (perhaps recklessly) that I should update iTunes (from 6.0.4 to 6.0.5). This seemed to work perfectly. Except when I opened it, and played a song, within seconds the whole freezing thing happened again, exactly as before.
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Does anyone know what to do about this?
(I'm using a Power-PC based dual G5 which is only about 15 months old).
Thanks in advance.
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PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8GHz, PowerBook G4 12" 1.33GHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Just an update (I'm answering my own post) in case anyone else has this issue:
I managed to get iTunes to stop causing hard crashes. I went through the repair disk procedure outlined here:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
Including running Yasu at the end with most of the boxes ticked, to clean caches thoroughly.
And I also trashed all the iTunes preferences files. The first time you run iTunes after this you have to answer some questions (as it resets the prefs) but you can always restore your settings manually afterwards.
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Have new ipad2 1st time setup sync etc went without a hitch. Now whole system crashes

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Many warnings and errors in Console associated with increasingly flakey behavior of Early 2008 Mac Pro running 10.9.2
I have run disk utility on boot drive and other internal and external HD and all is well. I have just reinstalled the OS. In searching through the Discussions, I thought that installed third party applications have causes system changes that affect system preformance. To investigate, I followed Linc Davis' suggestion and produced the following outputs from Setps 1 and 2 respectively. I do not use MacKeeper or Drive genius and have tried to remove previously. Likewise, I do not use AirParrot, EyeTV (left over from 2002??), MisFox, Growl, anything related to the Casio camera, or Lotus Notes.
STEP 1:
Boot Mode: Normal
Loaded extrinsic kernel extensions:
com.squirrels.driver.AirParrotSpeakers (1.8)
com.squirrels.airparrot.framebuffer (3)
Loaded extrinsic user agents:
com.c-command.SpamSieve.LaunchAgent
2BUA8C4S2C.com.agilebits.onepassword-osx-helper
com.hp.scanModule.12880.A0C6F176-0E27-4EBB-92FE-8BAB18501604
net.juniper.pulsetray
com.wacom.pentablet
com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager
com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper
com.spotify.webhelper
com.microsoft.SyncServicesAgent
com.adobe.ARM.930da3ce175de4e82bd3cdf1dd8571f74bd3b6a7236bc94bfc00f6e9
com.adobe.ARM.925793fb327152fd34795896fa1fb9ffa268b2a852256fe56609efa3
User cron tasks:
#SqzS          VERSION = 1.0.0
#SYMANTEC SCHEDULER CRON ENTRIES. THESE ENTRIES ARE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED
#PLEASE DO NOT EDIT.
# Enc=1 Name="My Product Update Task" EvType1=1 EvType2=0 Sched=1
0 0 2 * * "/Library/Application Support/Symantec/Scheduler/SymSecondaryLaunch.app/Contents/schedLauncher "   2 "/Applications/Symantec Solutions/LiveUpdate.app/Contents/MacOS/LiveUpdate" "    " "oapp" "aevt" "exAG" "-update LUal"
#SqzS END SYMANTEC CRON ENTRIES
Safari extensions:
Facebook Cleaner
1-ClickWeather
AdBlock
1Password
Restricted user files: 10155
Extrinsic loadable bundles:
/System/Library/Extensions/AirParrotDriver.kext
          (com.squirrels.driver.AirParrotSpeakers)
/System/Library/Extensions/APExtFramebuffer.kext
          (com.squirrels.airparrot.framebuffer)
/System/Library/Extensions/CiscoVPN.kext
          (com.cisco.nke.ipsec)
/System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVCinergy450AudioBlock.kext
          (com.elgato.driver.DontMatchCinergy450)
/System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVClassicDontSeize.kext
          (com.elgato.eyetv.ClassicNotSeizeDriver)
/System/Library/Extensions/hp_qc_io_enabler.kext
          (com.hp.hpio.hp_psa530_630_io_enabler)
/System/Library/Extensions/Pen Tablet.kext
          (com.wacom.kext.pentablet)
/System/Library/Extensions/TabletDriverCFPlugin.bundle
          (No bundle ID)
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/SkypeABDialer.bundle
          (com.skype.skypeabdialer)
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/SkypeABSMS.bundle
          (com.skype.skypeabsms)
Library/InputManagers/iPLM/iPLM.bundle
          (com.mac.bwebster.iPLM)
Library/Internet Plug-Ins/FacebookVideoCalling.bundle
          (com.skype.FacebookVideoCalling)
Library/Internet Plug-Ins/fbplugin_1_0_3.plugin
          (com.facebook.plugin)
Library/Internet Plug-Ins/PlayerPlugin.bundle
          (com.nds.pcshow.player)
Library/Mail/Bundles/SpamSieve.mailbundle
          (com.c-command.spamsieve.mailplugin)
Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled 1)/SpamSieve.mailbundle
          (com.c-command.spamsieve.mailplugin)
Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled 2)/SpamSieve.mailbundle
          (com.c-command.spamsieve.mailplugin)
Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled 3)/SpamSieve.mailbundle
          (com.c-command.spamsieve.mailplugin)
Library/PreferencePanes/MisFox.prefPane
          (de.clauss-net.MisFox)
/Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers/EmagicUSBMIDIDriver.plugin
          (info.emagic.driver.unitor)
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/Hear.plugin
          (com.prosofteng.hear.plugin)
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/InstantOn.driver
          (com.rogueamoeba.InstantOn.driver)
/Library/Extensions/AirParrotDriver.kext
          (com.squirrels.driver.AirParrotSpeakers)
/Library/Extensions/APExtFramebuffer.kext
          (com.squirrels.airparrot.framebuffer)
/Library/InputManagers/MagicMenuEnabler/MagicMenuEnabler.bundle
          (com.aladdinsys.mmenabler)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin
          (com.adobe.acrobat.pdfviewer)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/CitrixICAClientPlugIn.plugin
          (com.citrix.citrixicaclientplugIn)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Disabled Plug-Ins/Windows Media Plugin
          (com.microsoft.WMP.defaultplugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/DRM Plugin.bundle
          (com.microsoft.DRMPlugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/EPPEX Plugin.plugin
          (jp.co.canon.EPPEX Plugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin
          (com.macromedia.Flash Player.plugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
          (net.telestream.wmv.plugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin
          (net.telestream.wmv.webplugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
          (com.Google.GoogleEarthPlugin.plugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Java Applet.plugin
          (File Doesn't Exist, Will Create: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Java Applet.plugin/Contents/Info.plist)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
          (com.oracle.java.JavaAppletPlugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/net.juniper.DSSafariExtensions.plugin
          (net.juniper.DSSafariExtensions.plugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin
          (com.microsoft.officelive.browserplugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
          (com.microsoft.sharepoint.browserplugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SharePointWebKitPlugin.webplugin
          (com.microsoft.sharepoint.webkitplugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin
          (com.microsoft.SilverlightPlugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Unity Web Player.plugin
          (com.unity.UnityWebPlayer)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/WacomNetscape.plugin
          (com.wacom.tabletplugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/WacomSafari.plugin
          (com.wacom.safaritabletplugin)
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins (Disabled)/Flash Player.plugin
          (com.macromedia.Flash Player.plugin)
/Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled)/OMiC.mailbundle
          (com.restoroot.omic)
/Library/PreferencePanes/DejaVu.prefPane
          (com.propaganda.DejaVuPref)
/Library/PreferencePanes/Flash Player.prefPane
          (com.adobe.flashplayerpreferences)
/Library/PreferencePanes/Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane
          (net.telestream.wmv.prefpane)
/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane
          (com.growl.prefpanel)
/Library/PreferencePanes/PenTablet.prefPane
          (com.wacom.PenTabletSettingsPrefPane)
/Library/PreferencePanes/SymantecQuickMenu.prefPane
          (com.symantec.quickmenu.prefpane)
/Library/PreferencePanes/SymAutoProtect.prefPane
          (SymAutoProtect)
/Library/PreferencePanes/VersionCue.prefPane
          (com.adobe.versionCue.VCPrefPane)
/Library/PreferencePanes/VersionCueCS3.prefPane
          (com.adobe.versioncueCS3.VCPrefPane)
/Library/QuickLook/DICOMQuickLook.qlgenerator
          (com.osirix.dicomQLgenerator)
/Library/QuickTime/CanonMJPEGAVI.component
          (jp.co.canon.MJPEGAVIExporter)
/Library/QuickTime/CanonMJPEGAVIDec.component
          (jp.co.canon.CanonMJPEGAVIDec)
/Library/QuickTime/CanonText.component
          (jp.co.canon.Text)
/Library/QuickTime/CASIO AVI Importer.component
          (com.CASIO.EXLIM.component)
/Library/QuickTime/DivX 6 Decoder.component
          (com.DivXInc.DivXDecoder)
/Library/QuickTime/EyeTV MPEG Support.component
          (com.elgato.mpegsupport)
/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax
          (No bundle ID)
/Library/Services/ScanService.service
          (com.symantec.ScanService)
/Library/Spotlight/LotusNotesImporter.mdimporter
          (com.ibm.lotus.notes.mdimporter)
/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Entourage.mdimporter
          (com.microsoft.entourageMDImporter)
Unsigned shared libraries:
/usr/lib/libsymsea.1.0.0.dylib
Font problems: 54
Library/LaunchAgents:
.DS_Store
com.adobe.ARM.925793fb327152fd34795896fa1fb9ffa268b2a852256fe56609efa3.plist
com.adobe.ARM.930da3ce175de4e82bd3cdf1dd8571f74bd3b6a7236bc94bfc00f6e9.plist
[email protected].plist
com.apple.FolderActions.enabled.plist
com.apple.FolderActions.folders.plist
com.apple.SafariBookmarksSyncer.plist
com.c-command.SpamSieve.LaunchAgent.plist
com.microsoft.LaunchAgent.SyncServicesAgent.plist
com.spotify.webhelper.plist
com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents:
com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist
com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist
com.lexmark.bmlaunchd.plist
com.lexmark.bmspecificlaunchd.plist
com.lexmark.lexnetlaunchd.plist
com.lexmark.lxknetlaunchd.plist
com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist
com.symantec.quickmenu.application.plist
com.wacom.pentablet.plist
net.juniper.pulsetray.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons:
com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
com.adobe.versioncueCS3.plist
com.apple.aelwriter.plist
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist
com.prosofteng.DriveGenius.locum.plist
gds_db.plist
net.juniper.AccessService.plist
net.juniper.UninstallPulse.plist
/Library/PrivateFrameworks:
SymAppKitAdditions.framework
SymBase.framework
SymIR.framework
SymScheduler.framework
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
/Library/StartupItems:
.FBCIndex
.FBCLockFolder
AdobeVersionCue
ProTec6b
STEP 2:
Loaded extrinsic daemons:
net.juniper.UninstallPulse
net.juniper.AccessService
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
com.adobe.versioncueCS3
com.adobe.SwitchBoard
com.adobe.fpsaud
Root cron tasks:
#SqzS          VERSION = 1.0.0
#SYMANTEC SCHEDULER CRON ENTRIES. THESE ENTRIES ARE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED
#PLEASE DO NOT EDIT.
# Enc=1 Name=DefaultLiveUpdateSchedule EvType1=1 EvType2=1 Sched=5
19 */4 * * * "/Library/Application Support/Symantec/Scheduler/SymSecondaryLaunch.app/Contents/schedLauncher" -u 1 "/Applications/Symantec Solutions/LiveUpdate.app/Contents/MacOS/LiveUpdate" "    " "oapp" "aevt" "exAG" "-update LUal"
#SqzS END SYMANTEC CRON ENTRIES

You have at least partial installations of "MacKeeper" and "Norton Anti-Virus," which are both useless and harmful. You also have quite a few other third-party system modifications that might be useful but could also be harmful, especially if incomplete or outdated. Besides that, many files in your home folder have wrong permissions or are locked.
A.
This procedure will unlock all your user files, reset their ownership, and remove their access-control lists. If you've set special values for those attributes, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Back up all data.
Step 1
If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to Step 2.
Enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as before (triple-click, copy, and paste):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR..; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_; chmod -R -N ~ $_; } 2>&-
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command may take several minutes to run, depending on how many files you have. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1, if you prefer not to take it, or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open. In that window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.
B.
The system is so heavily modified with third-party software that, instead of trying to remove the modifications piecemeal, you should erase the startup volume, reinstall OS X, and then go through the initial setup process, restoring only user data and settings from a backup — not applications or other files. This procedure will be easier than trying to clean up a messy system.
Back up all data to at least two different storage devices, if you haven't already done so. One backup is not enough to be safe. The backups can be made with Time Machine or with Disk Utility. Preferably both.
Erase and install OS X. This operation will destroy all data on the startup volume, so you had be better be sure of the backups. If you upgraded from an older version of OS X, you'll need the Apple ID and password that you used, so make a note of those before you begin.
When you restart, you'll be prompted to go through the initial setup process in Setup Assistant. That’s when you transfer the data from a backup.
Select only users and Computer & Network Settings in the Setup Assistant dialog — not Applications or Other files and folders. Don't transfer the Guest account, if it was enabled.
After that, run Software Update.
If the problem is resolved after the clean installation, reinstall third-party software selectively. I can only suggest general guidelines. Self-contained applications that install into the Applications folder by drag-and-drop or download from the App Store are usually safe. Anything that comes packaged as an installer or that prompts for an administrator password is suspect, and you must test thoroughly after reinstalling each such item to make sure you haven't restored the problem.
I strongly recommend that you never reinstall commercial "anti-virus" products or "utilities," nor any software that changes the user interface or modifies the functions of built-in applications. If you do that, the problem is likely to recur.
Before installing any software, ask yourself the question: "Am I sure I know how to uninstall this without having to wipe the volume again?" If the answer is "no," stop.
Never install any third-party software unless you know how to uninstall it.

PLEASE HELP!!! Installed huge font collection now the whole system crashed

I seriously need someone's help on this!! I downloaded a huge fonts collection (over 50,000 fonts) and copied them all into the System/Library/Fonts folder. Now the computer doesn't respond to ANYTHING!! It takes over 5 minutes to start up, whenever I try to open any type of program or folder, the multi-color wheel starts to go and nothing happens, even after over 30 minutes!! PLEASE I have extremely important work on my computer, I NEED to solve this without formatting the whole thing..

gilles --
These are the ones that should be in your SYSTEM > Library > Fonts folder:
AppleGothic.ttf
Geneva.dfont
HelveLTMM
Helvetica LT MM
Helvetica.dfont
HelveticaNeue.ttc
Keyboard.ttf
LastResort.ttf
LucidaGrande.ttc
Menlo.ttc (the new default font for Terminal)
Monaco.dfont
Times LT MM
TimesLTMM
It's really important not to ever fool with SYSTEM fonts.
Adding or deleting.
After you get rid of all but the above list in your SYTEM Library Fonts,
you can go back if you want and reinstall the extras that were originally installed in that folder.
They're not necessary, but then you would have a pristine SF folder.
Read this when you have recovered:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
by our font guru, Kurt Lang.
Loading 50,000 fonts is a terrible idea.
But if you feel you HAVE to, put them in your USERS>Library>Font folder.
All the best.
You came really close to killing your Mac.
Best of luck!

Flash player causes entire system crash with black screen

When watching a video on youtube, streaming on twitch or other things my entire system will crash with the following symptoms:
-Black Screen
-Intermittent stuttering sound
-Only fixable by a hard reboot (holding the power button). The reset button will NOT work. Video will NOT return, it will continue to loop this way until a hard reset.
Your Flash Version
11.9.900
Your browser name
Firefox
Your Operating System (OS)
Windows (Windows 7)
That information taken directly from Adobe's site. Using 64-bit, 8GB of RAM installed. ATI Radeon HD 6850 card. I have done a fresh Win 7 install a couple months ago and JUST NOW put flash back on here...now it's crashing. While times vary before the crash, I just watched a youtube video for less than 5 seconds before it happened.
Upon reboot, I get the "Windows was not shut down properly" message. No "Your system has recovered..." message, however. I've seen very few posts about this and none of the solutions help but this is REALLY pissing me off now. It happened to me before and the only fix was a fresh system install. I'm not doing that again.

Hi Mike,
I appreciate the reply. I can run the system for days, literally, doing other tasks such as music through iTunes, gaming through Steam, voice chatting on Ventrilo. The only time I will ever experience this issue will be the five minutes I watch a youtube video or watch a stream on Twitch..
My primary HD is a relatively new Intel SSD. I do have multiple other drives but they're used for storage of media (include aforementioned music).
I have been a youtuber and streamer for a while, and i'd like to try and record the phenominon, but i'll have to do so using an external camera since i'm not sure I can stop and save the recorded data. I'll have to do so I guess so I can give a better idea of the issue occuring.
Thanks again.

Youtube videos cause entire system crash

System Basics:
AMD Phenom x6 3.2GHz
4GB DDR3 Ram
120GB SDD Operating Drive (storage drives irrelevant)
ATI Radeon HD 5700 1GB (hardware acceleration not active)
Creative X-Fi 7.1
(all drivers up to date)
OS:
Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit)
(all windows updates up to date)
Browsers:
Avant Browser (Using Flash 10.1.85.3) (32 bit browser)
Google Chrome (downloaded today with latest Flash Player incorporated) (32 bit browser)
Issue:
I've been using Avant with the latest Flash player with no problems since install. However, today it has started to completely crash my entire system when I start playing a youtube video. BSOD and then system reboot.
Thinking it may be an issue with Avant (which is not the most popular and, therefore, not the most supported browser) I decided to download Google Chrome and see how things worked.
As soon as I played a youtube video in Chrome, BSOD and a system reboot.
My system is extremely stable otherwise and has had no other crashes since it was built in July.
I've noticed another person having the same issue with a Radeon graphics card, but most of the advice is concerning IE or Firefox, neither of which I'm using.
The strange thing is that this issue only started today, but my Flash Player and Graphic Drivers were both updated a week ago. I've been playing youtube videos without issue since then until this morning.

Hi, I know there have been problems with the ATI/Flash Player as I've been on several of the threads and then read others.
Just from memory it depended on the driver version, not one particular one. Now if you didn't have that BSOD, I would say some add on or Toolbar or Anti-Virus was conflicting. Now in the FlashPlayerTrust, what files are in there?
RealPlayer?
Also the FlashAuthor.cfg, do you use that and what for?
Do you use Skype, Quicktime? These can conflict and especially RealPlayer.
I am on my laptop now, but tomorrow I'll check some of the threads that had/have the ATI issues and see what I can find. In fact I saw one posted tonight, but didn't have time to check it. I keep a lot of folders on my work PC so maybe there will be some helpful info there. With that kind of a crash I tend to think it's ATI/Flash Player related. I don't think it is Flash Player conflicting with the driver, although affected.
That's all for me this evening,
Thanks,
eidnolb

NFS causes whole system hang

I have a home server that I just set up recently that runs Arch linux. It exports a couple of external hard drives via NFS. I have been mouting them with autofs on my laptop. However, after several hours the entire system completely hangs up. I originally thought it had something to do with the rpc-gssd daemon that the NFS wiki page recommends running as it was dying in a strange way and I thought that may have been related to the hang ups. After implementing a different workaround (blacklist rpcsec_gss_krb5) and disabling rpc-gssd, I am still having the same hang issue.
Here is what happens:
I boot up my computer, start Firefox, Thunderbird, various terminals, etc. I mount the NFS share with autofs by opening up the /media/net/atomic/qx2_data directory. After a while, the NFS mounts in Thunar start disappering momentarily. Then a little while later the system completely hangs and requires a hard reboot. The end of the log from journalctl is posted below.
Right now I have disabled autofs and I will only mount the drives on the server via SFTP to avoid this problem, but I would really like to get this debugged. Also, this is not likely related to any sort of a connection issue as both computers are hardwired to the same Gigabit Ethernet switch.
Any ideas on what might be going on here?
/etc/autofs/auto.net:
atomic -fstype=nfs4,rw,async,sec=sys,bg,intr atomic.local:/
Log:
Dec 17 16:33:35 watatsumi automount[19747]: key ".hidden" not found in map source(s).
Dec 17 16:34:51 watatsumi automount[19747]: key ".hidden" not found in map source(s).
Dec 17 16:36:07 watatsumi automount[19747]: key ".hidden" not found in map source(s).
Dec 17 16:37:23 watatsumi automount[19747]: key ".hidden" not found in map source(s).
Dec 17 16:38:35 watatsumi automount[19747]: key ".hidden" not found in map source(s).
Dec 17 16:39:51 watatsumi automount[19747]: key ".hidden" not found in map source(s).
Dec 17 16:41:07 watatsumi automount[19747]: key ".hidden" not found in map source(s).
Dec 17 16:42:23 watatsumi automount[19747]: key ".hidden" not found in map source(s).
Dec 17 16:43:39 watatsumi automount[19747]: key ".hidden" not found in map source(s).
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 23s! [htop:2505]
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: Modules linked in: usbtmc auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfsv4 tun joydev snd_hda_codec_hdmi x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd fuse nvidia(PO) iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_core snd_usb_audio videodev snd_usbmidi_lib snd_rawmidi media snd_seq_device arc4 evdev microcode psmouse serio_raw iwldvm mac80211 snd_hda_codec_realtek iwlwifi snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec cfg80211 snd_hwdep drm snd_pcm jme jmb38x_ms rfkill mii snd_page_alloc memstick snd_timer i2c_i801 mei_me snd i2c_core soundcore mei thermal shpchp wmi lpc_ich processor battery ac button video pcspkr nfs lockd
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: sunrpc fscache ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod hid_generic usbhid hid ahci libahci libata ehci_pci firewire_ohci sdhci_pci xhci_hcd scsi_mod ehci_hcd sdhci firewire_core crc_itu_t mmc_core usbcore usb_common
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: CPU: 5 PID: 2505 Comm: htop Tainted: P O 3.12.5-1-ARCH #1
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: Hardware name: CLEVO P150HMx/P150HMx, BIOS 4.6.4 08/09/2011
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: task: ffff880801678000 ti: ffff8807dcbec000 task.ti: ffff8807dcbec000
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff814f4f8e>] [<ffffffff814f4f8e>] _raw_spin_lock+0x2e/0x40
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff8807dcbedd88 EFLAGS: 00000297
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: RAX: 0000000000000082 RBX: ffffffff81299133 RCX: 0000000000000000
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: RDX: 0000000000000083 RSI: ffffffff8172447b RDI: ffffffff818063c0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: RBP: ffff8807dcbedd88 R08: 0000000000017b80 R09: ffff88080e83ce00
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: R10: ffff8807dcbedfd8 R11: ffffffff81209fbd R12: ffff8807dcbedea0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: R13: ffff8807dcbede93 R14: ffffffff812981f2 R15: ffff8807dcbedcf8
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: FS: 00007f52ddf3c700(0000) GS:ffff88082f540000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: CR2: 00007f52ddf7d000 CR3: 00000007cb1d2000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: Stack:
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: ffff8807dcbedda0 ffffffff811bdee9 ffff88077db89c18 ffff8807dcbeddb8
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: ffffffff811c0089 ffff88064dd7d9c0 ffff8807dcbedde8 ffffffff8120d9db
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: ffff88064dd7d9c0 0000000000000005 ffff8807ba6dc480 ffffffff8120df90
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: Call Trace:
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811bdee9>] inode_sb_list_add+0x19/0x60
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811c0089>] new_inode+0x29/0x30
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff8120d9db>] proc_pid_make_inode+0x1b/0x100
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff8120df90>] ? proc_map_files_lookup+0x160/0x160
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff8120dfab>] proc_task_instantiate+0x1b/0xc0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff8120e28f>] proc_fill_cache+0xbf/0xe0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff8120ea1d>] proc_task_readdir+0x18d/0x3b0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811b75ad>] iterate_dir+0xad/0xe0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811b79e2>] SyS_getdents+0x92/0x120
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811b76c0>] ? fillonedir+0xe0/0xe0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff814fcfed>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: Code: 66 90 55 65 48 8b 04 25 70 c7 00 00 48 89 e5 83 80 44 e0 ff ff 01 b8 00 01 00 00 f0 66 0f c1 07 0f b6 d4 38 c2 75 04 5d c3 f3 90 <0f> b6 07 38 d0 75 f7 5d c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 66 66
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 23s! [umount.nfs4:30556]
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: Modules linked in: usbtmc auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfsv4 tun joydev snd_hda_codec_hdmi x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd fuse nvidia(PO) iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_core snd_usb_audio videodev snd_usbmidi_lib snd_rawmidi media snd_seq_device arc4 evdev microcode psmouse serio_raw iwldvm mac80211 snd_hda_codec_realtek iwlwifi snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec cfg80211 snd_hwdep drm snd_pcm jme jmb38x_ms rfkill mii snd_page_alloc memstick snd_timer i2c_i801 mei_me snd i2c_core soundcore mei thermal shpchp wmi lpc_ich processor battery ac button video pcspkr nfs lockd
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: sunrpc fscache ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod hid_generic usbhid hid ahci libahci libata ehci_pci firewire_ohci sdhci_pci xhci_hcd scsi_mod ehci_hcd sdhci firewire_core crc_itu_t mmc_core usbcore usb_common
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: CPU: 6 PID: 30556 Comm: umount.nfs4 Tainted: P O 3.12.5-1-ARCH #1
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: Hardware name: CLEVO P150HMx/P150HMx, BIOS 4.6.4 08/09/2011
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: task: ffff8807c902e840 ti: ffff88064fe5c000 task.ti: ffff88064fe5c000
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff814f4f83>] [<ffffffff814f4f83>] _raw_spin_lock+0x23/0x40
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff88064fe5ddb0 EFLAGS: 00000202
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: RAX: 0000000000002c2c RBX: f97a1072bc3dd003 RCX: ffffffff818c01e0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: RDX: 000000000000002b RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff880667e6d438
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: RBP: ffff88064fe5ddb0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0667f127400c0000
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: R10: f97a1072bc3dd003 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88064fe5dd30
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: R13: ffff88064fe5ddb0 R14: ffff880667f12730 R15: ffff880667f126a8
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: FS: 00007fdbfd3b3780(0000) GS:ffff88082f580000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: CR2: 00007f63631ff000 CR3: 00000006a0de3000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: Stack:
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: ffff88064fe5ddf8 ffffffff811e612c ffff880667f12730 0000000000000000
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: ffff8807d797e000 ffff8807d797e0a0 ffffffffa143fe40 ffff880099c279c0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: ffff880674e30620 ffff88064fe5de20 ffffffff811a6a60 0000000000000025
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: Call Trace:
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811e612c>] fsnotify_unmount_inodes+0x11c/0x1b0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811a6a60>] generic_shutdown_super+0x40/0xf0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811a6cd2>] kill_anon_super+0x12/0x20
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffffa03eb18b>] nfs_kill_super+0x1b/0x30 [nfs]
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811a70bd>] deactivate_locked_super+0x3d/0x60
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811a76a6>] deactivate_super+0x46/0x60
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811c350f>] mntput_no_expire+0xef/0x150
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811c3596>] mntput+0x26/0x40
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811c36ad>] namespace_unlock+0xfd/0x110
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff811c4803>] SyS_umount+0x1c3/0x3a0
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: [<ffffffff814fcfed>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: Code: 05 e8 52 84 da ff 5d c3 66 66 66 66 90 55 65 48 8b 04 25 70 c7 00 00 48 89 e5 83 80 44 e0 ff ff 01 b8 00 01 00 00 f0 66 0f c1 07 <0f> b6 d4 38 c2 75 04 5d c3 f3 90 0f b6 07 38 d0 75 f7 5d c3 66
Dec 17 16:45:16 watatsumi kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7 stuck for 23s! [ifconfig:30557]
Last edited by alex.forencich (2013-12-18 02:02:58)

Hi Alex - autofs mounts on demand/request, and unmounts a filesystem after 10 minutes of non-use by default. If you set the timeout to zero (auto.master), it disables this timeout. If this is an NFSv4 umount bug, then I don't think this will help you as you'll have to umount at some stage (e.g. shutting down).

I just bought a movie via itunes and every time I try to watch it the whole system crashes. Help?

I just bought a movie on itunes, my first time doing that actually. When I first went to play it just went and stayed black when I hit play. I did need to update itunes so I thought that was the problem. I think it made it worse, every time I try to play the movie it crashes all of itunes. Anyone know what's going on? I actually need the movie for a school project too so this is really frustrating.

Make sure the video is not in High Definiton (HD). You can check by right->clicking the file and choose Get Info. Under the Summary tab look for the Quality field. High Definition content is not compatible with your older iPod Classic as HD video resolution exceeds that of what is capable by this particular model. You'll need to redownload the standard version.
To prevent HD versions from being downloaded in the future head to the iTunes Store, click the Purchased link, and then select TV Shows and remove the tick mark next to Download HD when available. You should be able to download the SD version now from under this same page.
B-rock

OSS causes hard system crash

I have installed OSS using the instructions on the wiki. However, when I started the OSS daemon, my system completely locked up, requiring a hard reset. The only log I could find is /var/log/soundon.log
$ cat /var/log/soundon.log
Open Sound System starting Fri Sep 4 17:30:56 EDT 2009
OSS version: 4.1 (b 1052b/200905261644)
Kernel version: 2.6.30-ARCH
Kernel vermagic: 2.6.30-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload
OSS vermagic: 2.6.30-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload
*** Loading OSS kernel modules ***
I tried it a few more times, but each time it froze the system. I don't even know what else I can check. Does anyone have an idea?

I have this same issue. noahsark, do you have the "82801JI (ICH10 Family)" controller (run `lpsci | grep Audio`)? If so, things aren't looking good. The forum of 4Front Technologies (the company behind OSS) has a few posts complaining about this issue, some dated from January of this year. A few developers tried to help, but nothing ever came of it. I tried the most recent source (available as oss-mercurial in AUR), but it has the same problem.
Last edited by Blazeix (2009-09-06 02:29:09)

Photoshop CS5.1 64-bit crashes whole system when using Wacom Cintiq 13HD

Hello,
I've got a big problem and Wacom Support/Forum wasn't really that helpful at all, so I hope someone here has the answer.
I'm using:
- Windows 7 Premium 64-bit with Service Pack 1
- Intel i7-267OQM 2,2 Ghz CPU
- Nvidia GeForce GT 635M 2GB
- 8GB RAM
- Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 64-bit
- on an ASUS N55S Laptop
My new Wacom Cintiq 13HD runs just fine while just browsing on the internet, with Adobe Illustrator (so far...) and Easy Paint Tool SAI.
But everytime I open my Photoshop it's just some minutes before my system freezes for a second, than blue screen appears und my whole
System crashes down. Every. damn. Time.
I read in the Wacom Forum that more people have this problem, but all suggested solutions by Wacom just don't work.
Here's the link: http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14060
The one thing I didn't try is using the USB Extensions, so I will buy some tomorow and try that too.
But maybe someone has an other idea that could help?
I tried all drivers Wacom has avaible but it still happens. I updated my Adobe Softwares, my BIOS, my graphic card, I restarted countless times,
but nothing seems to work.
Help me, please!

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer
REFERENCE_BY_POINTER
If this is the first time you’ve seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.
If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any windows updates you might need.
If problems continue, disable or remove any new installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode.
Technical Information:
*** STOP: 0x00000018 (0x0000000000000000, 0xFFFFFA800D767920, 0x0000000000000002, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Collecting data for crash dump…
Initializing disk for crash dump…
Beginning dump of physical memory.
Dumping Physical memory to disk: 35
And I saw that the problem occurs with Asus Laptops and Dell Precision Laptops.
So when I've got time (-> weekend ) I'll set up my desktop pc again and try it there. Maybe it's one of the Asus drivers?

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