No more "random freezing" with my MbP ....

...since I installed Safari 4 Beta 10 days ago!
Before Safari 4, I had 2-3 freezes per day when using the 9600 graphics Chip. Not just using Safari but using all kinds of programs (with safari closed!). This has been a huge problem for many people.
See this link for more info: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1767718&tstart=0&messageID=908 2914#9082914
Now, since I installed Safari 4 beta: not a single freeze in 10 days! and some other people see the same thing.
This is very weird no? The system is supposed to be designed so that a single program can not crash the whole system, no?! So now that the new version of Safari solves a permanent system crash problem, it looks like the problem was safari 3.x.x, which should not happen! Or...maybe Safari 4 contains also some System updates that were not published...
Well at least the problem seems to be solved, hope it doesn't come back! Would have been nice to know what the exact problem was though...

Unless I'm remembering wrong, there have been incidences of "random freezing" after installing Safari 4.
The system is supposed to be designed so that a single program can not crash the whole system, no?!
It is. The random freezing is very likely not a software issue though, so this point does not apply to the issue at all. The system software is not "crashing" in these cases of random freezing. It is much more likely that there is some hardware issue that causes the system to just freeze.
Or...maybe Safari 4 contains also some System updates that were not published...
This is actually likely, but I doubt that it fixed your freezing issue. Webkit (the underlying engine of Safari) was substantially upgraded in Safari 4. Webkit (being an open-source standard that Apple develops) is also used in some other areas of OS X for rendering HTML content. So, when the Webkit engine is updated as a result of a Safari update, there are changes occurring at a system level.
Again, I would really really really doubt that this update fixed your freezing. However, if it isn't freezing anymore, then I guess we shouldn't complain.
--Travis

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Rexilion wrote:
It seems you do not have any swap. Correct?
Could you provide the output of dmesg after the occurance?
Yes, you are correct, I do not have any swap. Would I benefit from it? I guess I never used it.
After the occurance you mean, after the freeze? I will try to do it, but it is rare the case when the computer is able to not freeze at all.
Got it now:
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[ 0.443614] pcieport 0000:00:1c.3: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 0.443838] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 0.444061] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 0.444184] pcieport 0000:00:01.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444187] pci 0000:01:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444190] pcie_pme 0000:00:01.0:pcie01: service driver pcie_pme loaded
[ 0.444210] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444213] pci 0000:02:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444217] pcie_pme 0000:00:1c.0:pcie01: service driver pcie_pme loaded
[ 0.444237] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444239] pci 0000:03:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444243] pcie_pme 0000:00:1c.1:pcie01: service driver pcie_pme loaded
[ 0.444266] pcieport 0000:00:1c.3: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444271] pcie_pme 0000:00:1c.3:pcie01: service driver pcie_pme loaded
[ 0.444290] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444293] pci 0000:06:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444295] pci 0000:06:00.1: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444297] pci 0000:06:00.2: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444298] pci 0000:06:00.3: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444300] pci 0000:06:00.4: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444305] pcie_pme 0000:00:1c.4:pcie01: service driver pcie_pme loaded
[ 0.444324] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.444329] pcie_pme 0000:00:1c.5:pcie01: service driver pcie_pme loaded
[ 0.444345] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 0.444364] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 0.444399] intel_idle: does not run on family 6 model 23
[ 0.444441] GHES: HEST is not enabled!
[ 0.444500] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 0.444971] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 0.445012] rtc_cmos 00:03: RTC can wake from S4
[ 0.445141] rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
[ 0.445167] rtc_cmos 00:03: alarms up to one month, 242 bytes nvram, hpet irqs
[ 0.445178] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[ 0.445322] TCP: cubic registered
[ 0.445446] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 0.445656] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 0.445905] registered taskstats version 1
[ 0.446529] Magic number: 14:681:877
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[ 0.446705] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded.
[ 0.447929] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1120K (ffffffff818d8000 - ffffffff819f0000)
[ 0.447931] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 8192k
[ 0.450553] Freeing unused kernel memory: 904K (ffff88000151e000 - ffff880001600000)
[ 0.451721] Freeing unused kernel memory: 416K (ffff880001798000 - ffff880001800000)
[ 0.458667] random: systemd-tmpfile urandom read with 2 bits of entropy available
[ 0.460077] systemd-udevd[47]: starting version 212
[ 0.478236] i8042: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:MOUE] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 0.489263] ACPI: bus type USB registered
[ 0.489293] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.489304] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.494274] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 0.494278] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 0.494499] sdhci-pci 0000:06:00.1: SDHCI controller found [197b:2382] (rev 0)
[ 0.494708] mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:06:00.1] using DMA
[ 0.494739] sdhci-pci 0000:06:00.2: SDHCI controller found [197b:2381] (rev 0)
[ 0.494796] sdhci-pci 0000:06:00.2: Refusing to bind to secondary interface.
[ 0.499195] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.499671] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 0.499940] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
[ 0.500201] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[ 0.500769] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: UHCI Host Controller
[ 0.500777] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 0.500786] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: detected 2 ports
[ 0.500808] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: irq 16, io base 0x000080e0
[ 0.501200] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.501209] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.501580] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: UHCI Host Controller
[ 0.501587] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 0.501593] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: detected 2 ports
[ 0.501626] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: irq 21, io base 0x000080c0
[ 0.503178] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 0.503409] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.503419] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.503907] ehci-pci 0000:00:1a.7: EHCI Host Controller
[ 0.503914] ehci-pci 0000:00:1a.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 0.503929] ehci-pci 0000:00:1a.7: debug port 1
[ 0.507842] ehci-pci 0000:00:1a.7: cache line size of 64 is not supported
[ 0.507859] ehci-pci 0000:00:1a.7: irq 19, io mem 0xdd005c00
[ 0.508093] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[ 0.508752] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 0.508793] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 0.513351] ehci-pci 0000:00:1a.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 0.513563] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.513629] hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 0.536813] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.536828] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.556530] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0
[ 0.560059] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.560067] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.560345] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
[ 0.560352] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 0.560366] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
[ 0.563401] firewire_ohci 0000:06:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 4 IR + 0 IT contexts, quirks 0x10
[ 0.568179] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: cache line size of 64 is not supported
[ 0.568198] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: irq 20, io mem 0xdd005800
[ 0.576683] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 0.576856] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.576865] hub 4-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[ 0.577213] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
[ 0.577220] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[ 0.577228] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: detected 2 ports
[ 0.577249] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 20, io base 0x000080a0
[ 0.577420] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.577429] hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.577678] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
[ 0.577684] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
[ 0.577691] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: detected 2 ports
[ 0.577712] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x00008080
[ 0.577877] hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.577885] hub 6-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.578124] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 0.578130] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 7
[ 0.578136] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: detected 2 ports
[ 0.578156] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 16, io base 0x00008060
[ 0.578323] hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.578331] hub 7-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.578566] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
[ 0.578573] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 8
[ 0.578579] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: detected 2 ports
[ 0.578609] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 18, io base 0x00008040
[ 0.578778] hub 8-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.578786] hub 8-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.579138] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 3.0
[ 0.579314] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 0.579386] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0x33 impl SATA mode
[ 0.579390] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq sntf ilck pm led clo pmp pio slum part ccc ems sxs
[ 0.597458] scsi0 : ahci
[ 0.597577] scsi1 : ahci
[ 0.597688] scsi2 : ahci
[ 0.597787] scsi3 : ahci
[ 0.597890] scsi4 : ahci
[ 0.597988] scsi5 : ahci
[ 0.598049] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xdd005000 port 0xdd005100 irq 46
[ 0.598053] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xdd005000 port 0xdd005180 irq 46
[ 0.598054] ata3: DUMMY
[ 0.598056] ata4: DUMMY
[ 0.598058] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xdd005000 port 0xdd005300 irq 46
[ 0.598060] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xdd005000 port 0xdd005380 irq 46
[ 0.916700] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 0.916718] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.063421] firewire_core 0000:06:00.0: created device fw0: GUID 0000000000000000, S400
[ 1.083353] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 1.083369] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 1.083987] ata1.00: ATA-8: TOSHIBA MK5055GSX, FG002C, max UDMA/100
[ 1.083990] ata1.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
[ 1.084680] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 1.084792] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA TOSHIBA MK5055GS FG00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.087088] ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50L, SC04, max UDMA/100
[ 1.092125] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 1.113361] usb 2-2: new low-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[ 1.203938] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50L SC04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.208648] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
[ 1.208739] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1.208743] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 1.208779] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1.290173] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[ 1.323084] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 1.323088] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 1.323226] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
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[ 1.325335] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 1.325918] input: Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/0003:045E:0750.0001/input/input2
[ 1.326088] hid-generic 0003:045E:0750.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-2/input0
[ 1.336169] input: Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.1/0003:045E:0750.0002/input/input3
[ 1.336217] hid-generic 0003:045E:0750.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Device [Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-2/input1
[ 1.418377] sda: sda1 sda2
[ 1.418731] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 1.426688] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2394.269 MHz
[ 1.446699] usb 4-4: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
[ 2.115101] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 2.200031] usb 5-1: new low-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[ 2.385422] input: Logitech USB Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/0003:046D:C05A.0003/input/input4
[ 2.385472] hid-generic 0003:046D:C05A.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0
[ 2.426729] Switched to clocksource tsc
[ 2.490018] usb 7-2: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[ 2.502963] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
[ 2.721320] systemd[1]: systemd 212 running in system mode. (+PAM -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ +SECCOMP -APPARMOR)
[ 2.721454] systemd[1]: Detected architecture 'x86-64'.
[ 2.739429] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <arch>.
[ 3.632105] systemd[1]: Configuration file /etc/systemd/system/netctl@my\x2dnetwork.service is marked world-inaccessible. This has no effect as configuration data is accessible via APIs without restrictions. Proceeding anyway.
[ 3.755410] systemd[1]: Starting Login Prompts.
[ 3.755928] systemd[1]: Reached target Login Prompts.
[ 3.755939] systemd[1]: Starting Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[ 3.755992] systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch.
[ 3.756002] systemd[1]: Starting Remote File Systems.
[ 3.756478] systemd[1]: Reached target Remote File Systems.
[ 3.756488] systemd[1]: Expecting device sys-subsystem-net-devices-wlan0.device...
[ 3.756839] systemd[1]: Starting Encrypted Volumes.
[ 3.757313] systemd[1]: Reached target Encrypted Volumes.
[ 3.757330] systemd[1]: Starting Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
[ 3.757364] systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
[ 3.757373] systemd[1]: Starting Paths.
[ 3.757845] systemd[1]: Reached target Paths.
[ 3.757866] systemd[1]: Starting Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
[ 3.758419] systemd[1]: Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
[ 3.758432] systemd[1]: Starting Swap.
[ 3.758902] systemd[1]: Reached target Swap.
[ 3.758913] systemd[1]: Expecting device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-3e31eb5f\x2d326a\x2d4cd0\x2daab3\x2d7d1e7ac0797b.device...
[ 3.759249] systemd[1]: Starting Root Slice.
[ 3.766515] systemd[1]: Created slice Root Slice.
[ 3.766527] systemd[1]: Starting User and Session Slice.
[ 3.767173] systemd[1]: Created slice User and Session Slice.
[ 3.767184] systemd[1]: Starting Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
[ 3.767681] systemd[1]: Listening on Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
[ 3.767691] systemd[1]: Starting /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
[ 3.768180] systemd[1]: Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
[ 3.768189] systemd[1]: Starting Delayed Shutdown Socket.
[ 3.768677] systemd[1]: Listening on Delayed Shutdown Socket.
[ 3.768687] systemd[1]: Starting LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
[ 3.769176] systemd[1]: Listening on LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
[ 3.769189] systemd[1]: Starting udev Control Socket.
[ 3.769676] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Control Socket.
[ 3.769688] systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Socket.
[ 3.770181] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Kernel Socket.
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[ 3.770700] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket.
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[ 3.771341] systemd[1]: Created slice System Slice.
[ 3.771357] systemd[1]: Started File System Check on Root Device.
[ 3.771365] systemd[1]: Starting system-systemd\x2dfsck.slice.
[ 3.772001] systemd[1]: Created slice system-systemd\x2dfsck.slice.
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[ 3.790231] systemd[1]: Starting system-netctl.slice.
[ 3.790914] systemd[1]: Created slice system-netctl.slice.
[ 3.790930] systemd[1]: Starting system-getty.slice.
[ 3.791567] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice.
[ 3.809849] systemd[1]: Started Set Up Additional Binary Formats.
[ 3.852492] systemd[1]: Starting Create list of required static device nodes for the current kernel...
[ 3.876658] systemd[1]: Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
[ 3.877416] systemd[1]: Mounting POSIX Message Queue File System...
[ 3.878150] systemd[1]: Mounting Huge Pages File System...
[ 3.878884] systemd[1]: Starting udev Coldplug all Devices...
[ 3.879636] systemd[1]: Starting Setup Virtual Console...
[ 3.880782] systemd[1]: Started Load Kernel Modules.
[ 3.880820] systemd[1]: Mounting Configuration File System...
[ 3.881579] systemd[1]: Mounting Debug File System...
[ 3.882319] systemd[1]: Mounted FUSE Control File System.
[ 3.882346] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
[ 3.883635] systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
[ 4.312288] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered
[ 4.431925] systemd-udevd[146]: starting version 212
[ 5.513427] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input5
[ 5.513433] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
[ 5.513493] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input6
[ 5.513777] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[ 5.513831] input: Sleep Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input7
[ 5.513834] ACPI: Sleep Button [SLPB]
[ 5.513911] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input8
[ 5.513914] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
[ 5.596907] ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
[ 5.645033] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 47 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 5.657955] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 5.661096] acpi device:08: registered as cooling_device0
[ 5.663657] acpi device:0a: registered as cooling_device1
[ 5.663725] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:06/LNXVIDEO:01/input/input9
[ 5.708497] hp_accel: laptop model unknown, using default axes configuration
[ 5.720053] lis3lv02d: 8 bits sensor found
[ 5.729279] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 5.791571] ene_ir: chip is 0x3926 - kbver = 0x00, rev = 0xc0
[ 5.791574] ene_ir: PLL freq = 1406
[ 5.791575] ene_ir: KB3926C detected
[ 5.791586] ene_ir: Firmware regs: 00 00
[ 5.791587] ene_ir: Hardware features:
[ 5.791589] ene_ir: * Uses GPIO 40 for IR demodulated input
[ 5.821208] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-1 state
[ 5.821217] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-2 state
[ 5.821221] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-3 state
[ 5.821225] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle
[ 5.821242] ACPI: acpi_idle registered with cpuidle
[ 5.821270] Switched to clocksource hpet
[ 5.827916] Registered IR keymap rc-rc6-mce
[ 5.828003] input: ENE eHome Infrared Remote Receiver as /devices/virtual/rc/rc0/input10
[ 5.828066] rc0: ENE eHome Infrared Remote Receiver as /devices/virtual/rc/rc0
[ 5.840895] ene_ir: driver has been successfully loaded
[ 5.848018] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input11
[ 5.877265] IR JVC protocol handler initialized
[ 5.878491] IR NEC protocol handler initialized
[ 5.879175] IR RC6 protocol handler initialized
[ 5.880281] IR RC5(x) protocol handler initialized
[ 5.880739] IR SANYO protocol handler initialized
[ 5.881059] input: MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (ene_ir) as /devices/virtual/input/input12
[ 5.881065] IR MCE Keyboard/mouse protocol handler initialized
[ 5.881065] IR Sony protocol handler initialized
[ 5.881758] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 249
[ 5.882267] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (ene_ir) registered at minor = 0
[ 5.882270] IR LIRC bridge handler initialized
[ 5.891466] [Firmware Bug]: Invalid critical threshold (0)
[ 5.892123] thermal LNXTHERM:00: registered as thermal_zone0
[ 5.892126] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ01] (31 C)
[ 5.903447] input: ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer as /devices/platform/lis3lv02d/input/input13
[ 5.903835] wmi: Mapper loaded
[ 5.927466] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
[ 6.029419] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 6.114983] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 6.137776] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000400-0x000000000000047f (\PMBA) (20131218/utaddress-258)
[ 6.137785] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 6.137789] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052f conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000050f (\GPIO) (20131218/utaddress-258)
[ 6.137793] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 6.137822] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
[ 6.180252] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux, in-tree:
[ 6.180255] Copyright(c) 2003- 2014 Intel Corporation
[ 6.180475] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 6.287693] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[ 6.287960] r8169 0000:03:00.0: irq 49 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 6.288149] r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xffffc9000584a000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 1c4000c0 IRQ 49
[ 6.288152] r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 6128 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
[ 6.345229] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 6.436120] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000008000-0x000000000000801f conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000008000-0x000000000000800f (\_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI) (20131218/utaddress-258)
[ 6.436128] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 6.526671] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x10676, pf=0x80, revision=0x60c
[ 6.535077] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[ 6.569608] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x10676, pf=0x80, revision=0x60c
[ 6.569745] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <[email protected]>, Peter Oruba
[ 6.570548] input: HDA Intel HDMI/DP,pcm=3 Phantom as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input17
[ 6.570639] input: HDA Intel Front Line Out as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input16
[ 6.570714] input: HDA Intel Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input15
[ 6.581760] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input18
[ 6.599116] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 8.83.5.1 build 33692 op_mode iwldvm
[ 6.683172] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG disabled
[ 6.683177] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS disabled
[ 6.683179] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING enabled
[ 6.683182] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN, REV=0x54
[ 6.683232] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: L1 Disabled; Enabling L0S
[ 6.701985] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 6.780556] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
[ 6.922833] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 6.922839] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 6.939605] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[ 6.939882] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20130102 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
[ 6.939892] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 337.12 Fri Apr 4 14:51:15 PDT 2014
[ 6.991292] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[ 6.991687] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.10
[ 6.991726] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH9M TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0460)
[ 6.991831] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
[ 7.064547] input: HP WMI hotkeys as /devices/virtual/input/input19
[ 7.066862] systemd-udevd[153]: renamed network interface eth0 to enp3s0
[ 7.089277] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.18
[ 7.089304] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 7.089306] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 7.089316] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 7.089319] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 7.089331] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 7.097641] gpio_ich: GPIO from 195 to 255 on gpio_ich
[ 7.119889] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device HP Webcam (05c8:010f)
[ 7.125560] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
[ 7.136432] input: HP Webcam as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb4/4-4/4-4:1.0/input/input20
[ 7.136523] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 7.136525] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)
[ 7.162108] kvm: disabled by bios
[ 7.167498] systemd-udevd[149]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlp2s0
[ 7.515656] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 6.5, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xa04751/0xa00000/0x0, board id: 3655, fw id: 428212
[ 7.594362] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input14
[ 7.949749] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: data=ordered
[ 8.055002] systemd-journald[127]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[ 13.835532] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: L1 Disabled; Enabling L0S
[ 13.838466] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[ 13.935096] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: L1 Disabled; Enabling L0S
[ 13.938046] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[ 13.964225] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp2s0: link is not ready
[ 14.845976] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 20.903153] wlp2s0: authenticate with b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d
[ 20.906517] wlp2s0: send auth to b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d (try 1/3)
[ 20.909113] wlp2s0: authenticated
[ 20.910074] wlp2s0: associate with b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d (try 1/3)
[ 20.913437] wlp2s0: RX AssocResp from b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d (capab=0x1431 status=0 aid=7)
[ 20.918955] wlp2s0: associated
[ 20.919008] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp2s0: link becomes ready
[ 21.089546] wlp2s0: deauthenticating from b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d by local choice (reason=2)
[ 21.096263] wlp2s0: authenticate with b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d
[ 21.099042] wlp2s0: send auth to b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d (try 1/3)
[ 21.099780] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: AT
[ 21.101974] wlp2s0: authenticated
[ 21.103555] wlp2s0: associate with b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d (try 1/3)
[ 21.108457] wlp2s0: RX AssocResp from b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d (capab=0x1431 status=0 aid=7)
[ 21.115231] wlp2s0: associated
[ 26.591580] fuse init (API version 7.22)
[ 148.105211] wlp2s0: authenticate with b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e
[ 148.107797] wlp2s0: direct probe to b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e (try 1/3)
[ 148.108518] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 148.310034] wlp2s0: direct probe to b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e (try 2/3)
[ 148.513366] wlp2s0: send auth to b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e (try 3/3)
[ 148.514272] wlp2s0: authenticated
[ 148.516865] wlp2s0: associate with b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e (try 1/3)
[ 148.517652] wlp2s0: RX AssocResp from b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e (capab=0x1511 status=0 aid=4)
[ 148.519034] wlp2s0: associated
[ 148.531940] wlp2s0: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm as advertised by b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e
[ 231.077026] wlp2s0: authenticate with b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d
[ 231.080206] wlp2s0: send auth to b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d (try 1/3)
[ 231.081422] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 231.082756] wlp2s0: authenticated
[ 231.083955] wlp2s0: waiting for beacon from b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9d
[ 231.362261] wlp2s0: authenticate with b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e
[ 231.365917] wlp2s0: send auth to b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e (try 1/3)
[ 231.380479] wlp2s0: authenticated
[ 231.383400] wlp2s0: associate with b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e (try 1/3)
[ 231.386425] wlp2s0: RX AssocResp from b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e (capab=0x1511 status=0 aid=4)
[ 231.390072] wlp2s0: associated
[ 231.481241] wlp2s0: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm as advertised by b8:c7:5d:02:3b:9e
[ 311.833862] perf samples too long (2511 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50100
[ 3074.285425] Watchdog[977]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f42693ed9b8 sp 00007f4251f777d0 error 6 in chromium[7f4265a4e000+55d7000]
[ 3166.859073] chromium[1212]: segfault at 39 ip 00007f7ddd6a7280 sp 00007fff9d984088 error 6 in chromium[7f7ddcefc000+55d7000]
[ 3172.385333] chromium[1169]: segfault at fbadbeef ip 00007f7ddf63345d sp 00007fff9d983f20 error 6 in chromium[7f7ddcefc000+55d7000]

Random freezes with INSERT-HANG-DETECTED in system log

Hi,
Since a few months I am experiencing random freezes on my early 2011 MacBook Pro 15". Sometimes they occur every few minutes and sometimes they can be away for hours. During the freeze the system is not responding and often a spinning beachball is shown. After the freeze the system resumes to work as normal.
In the system log (/var/log/system.log) I noticed the following messages which seem to have a timestamp corresponding to the freeze:
WebProcess[151]: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx time:28.505937, # of Inserts: 1, # of bytes written: 4875, Did shrink: NO
Does anyone know what these messages mean?
It doesn't seem to be related to the application that is in use during the freeze. Most of the time I only use Mail, Safari, Calendar, Terminal and Preview. My system (10.6.8) is fully up-to-date. The Activity Monitor does not show exceptional CPU or Memory usage.
What could also be relevant is that the freezes started to appear a week after I replaced a defective Hitachi HDD with a Crucial M4 SDD.
Does anyone have had the same issues with this SSD?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Maarten

This is an update to the question above.
I put in the original HDD and had the same issues. At one time it didn't even boot anymore. Then I sent in my MBP for repair. They first replaced the HDD with no success. Then they replaced the logic board and all issues dissapeared.
Maarten

Intermittent random freezing (mid 2012 MBP)

For the past year or so my Macbook Pro (mid 2012) has suffered from random freezes which require a hard reset.
Often these will occur only roughly once a week, but in the last couple of days (incidently since updating to 10.9.3, although such bursts have occured in the past and then settled down) it has been happening 4 to 5 times a day, getting to the point of being seriously disruptive.
I have, over the past few months, made several attempts to find the cause in vain. I am an experienced Mac user with a good understanding of computers, and I've never found a problem so mysterious to me. I'll break down first the symptoms and then what I have done to tye and find the cause.
Symptoms: Normally I will first notice that web pages aren't loading, but I can switch apps without problem. However, if I try and close an app or open another, that app then starts to hang. Progressively, everything starts to hang and I can no longer even switch apps, and everything gives me a spinning beachball. Eventually, even sound/music cuts out. Only a hard reset (holding down the power key) saves it.
Diagnosis: I have run all types of hardware checks, from apple's built in tests (fsck), RAM tests such as memtest, and third party testing suites which have checked the HD, RAM, CPU, GPU etc. All of them have come back 100% clean. I have repaired permissions, which also has no effect.
This made me think it could be a software issue. However, the crashes display no discernable pattern, and are completely (as far as I can see) un-reproducible. They have occured while I have been using a wide range of apps, and don't seem to be triggered by any particular action; e.g. they can occur while I am blankly reading a webpage or a pdf document. Further, the console shows absolutely nothing. The log messages appear completely normal, sometimes there are even no messages corresponding to within several minutes of the crash.
I haven't been able to verify if it is restricted to my user name, since generally the crashes are so intermittent I would have to use another username for several days, if not weeks, to really check this - something than is not practical given that I need the laptop to work on.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing the issue, or anything further I could try to diagnose it? I am reluctant to take it to an applestore, as it is out of warranty and I can't think of any tests they could try that I have not.

OGELTHORPE wrote:
Alastair Abbott wrote:
I am reluctant to take it to an applestore, as it is out of warranty and I can't think of any tests they could try that I have not.
An Apple store genius bar appointment and evaluation is for FREE! You have no idea what type of tests they may have, so make an appointment.
Thanks for pointing that out. Until very recently I lived in a country where there are no Apple stores nor Genius bars, so I wasn't aware of that.
I've tried safe boot, but as I said the problem is intermittent enough that it's not clear if it helps, and working continuously in safe boot to see isn't really an option.
No - there are no kernel panics, just the unexplained freezes.
Here is my etrecheck report:
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
          1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
          6 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: (null)
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 0 days 0:26:37
Disk Information:
          TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (38.52 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N
USB Information:
          Logitech USB Receiver
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper:
          Anywhere
Kernel Extensions:
          [not loaded] at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch (3876 - SDK 10.8) Support
          [kext loaded] com.sophos.kext.sav (9.0.3 - SDK 10.7) Support
          [kext loaded] com.sophos.nke.swi (9.0.3 - SDK 10.8) Support
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
          [running] com.cleverfiles.cfbackd.plist Support
          [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
          [loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
          [loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support
          [loaded] com.paragon.ntfs11.refresh.plist Support
          [running] com.sophos.autoupdate.plist Support
          [running] com.sophos.configuration.plist Support
          [running] com.sophos.intercheck.plist Support
          [running] com.sophos.notification.plist Support
          [running] com.sophos.scan.plist Support
          [running] com.sophos.sxld.plist Support
          [running] com.sophos.webd.plist Support
          [not loaded] org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist Support
          [loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist Support
Launch Agents:
          [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
          [loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
          [loaded] com.paragon.updater.plist Support
          [running] com.sophos.uiserver.plist Support
          [not loaded] org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist Support
          [loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
          [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
          [failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist
          [failed] com.google.Chrome.framework.plist Support
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
          [running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support
          [loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist Support
          [running] ws.agile.1PasswordAgent.plist Support
User Login Items:
          iTunesHelper
          TotalTerminal
          Dropbox
          SpiderOak
          AdobeResourceSynchronizer
          Google Chrome
          EvernoteHelper
Internet Plug-ins:
          SpeedDownload Browser Plugin: Version: 2.1.5 - SDK 10.6 Support
          Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 4.2.1f4 - SDK 10.6 Support
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.2.0.16   - SDK 10.8 Support
          AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 1.0.0.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
          Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
          Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          Mathematica: Version: 9.0.1.4055068 Support
          SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.1 - SDK 10.6 Support
          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 55 Check version
Safari Extensions:
          Omnikey: Version: 1.0.9
          Searchme: Version: 1.3
          1Password: Version: 4.1.0
          AdBlock: Version: 2.6.18
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
          RealPlayer Plugin: Version: Unknown
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player Support
          Flip4Mac WMV Support
          FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE) Support
          Java Support
          Perian Support
          TeXDistPrefPane Support
Time Machine:
          Skip System Files: NO
          Auto backup: YES
          Volumes being backed up:
                    Macintosh HD: Disk size: 464.96 GB Disk used: 429.09 GB
          Destinations:
                    Macbook Backup [Local] (Last used)
                    Total size: 465.14 GB
                    Total number of backups: 23
                    Oldest backup: 2013-05-12 21:27:14 +0000
                    Last backup: 2014-05-17 11:23:10 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Too small
                              Backup size 465.14 GB < (Disk used 429.09 GB X 3)
          Time Machine details may not be accurate.
          All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
               3%          WindowServer
               1%          mds_stores
               0%          Google Chrome
               0%          fontd
               0%          mds
Top Processes by Memory:
          184 MB          mds_stores
          166 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          154 MB          InterCheck
          147 MB          SophosScanD
          135 MB          Google Chrome
Virtual Memory Information:
          308 MB          Free RAM
          2.66 GB          Active RAM
          2.36 GB          Inactive RAM
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Random freezes with kernel 2.6.34 and xorg 1.8

The other day I upgraded the kernel to version 2.6.34 and at the same time xorg-server to 1.8 (along with input drivers and video drivers). From that moment, I suffer from random freezes, the system is completely locked up; the screen doesn't blank, though. The system appears to be perfectly fine, but after some minutes it will freeze.
As far as I can remember, the freezes only occur when using a webbrowser. Chromium is my default browser, but also Firefox and Konqueror caused the system to freeze completely when I want to open a webpage. Other network programs such as irssi can run for hours and they didn't seem to cause any havoc.
At first I thought this might be caused by some instability in the latest xf86-video-ati driver, so I downgraded back to xorg-server 1.7. Still the same symptoms, so I am pretty sure now there's something in the kernel. So I went back to xorg-server 1.8 and downgraded the kernel to 2.6.33. So far, the system hasn't let me down, yet. Also, I uninstalled the madwifi packages on my system so I'm using the ath5 drivers shipped with the kernel. That change doesn't seem to make a difference.
I am not exactly sure what exactly could cause this, there's no trace in any log file to be found. My suspicion is that it's network related.
The hardware is a Thinkpad T42 with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (r300) chip and an Atheros wireless card.
Anyone else with similar experiences with this hardware? I can't think of a way how to properly debug this. I know I can bisect, but that's time consuming and perhaps it's quicker to ask around first before I walk down that road. Any suggestions are welcome on how to track this down.

The last time I used arch was to do the updates, just got back to using it and crash!
Mine boots up to the point of the UDev events, but when I change the boot line to use /dev/sdxx instead of the /dev/disk/by-id/ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I go to the next step where the video mode changes, then it freezes. Half the other time it would stop at udev and either blank out totally or just stop. I don't even get a full bootup (standard or fallback). My other archs boot just fine.
Downgraded the kernel to the immediate previous kernel before .34 and booted upto the point of the window manager, so I think it's a problem with either the video driver or the xorg, because they were both updated at the same time, but the kernel may be a bit buggy also. (Of course, using the chroot and the arch install CD appropriate for my arch). Also, it only shows up on one screen on the dual headed setup, which makes obvious which one isn't working.
When the kernel calls the videomode (same one that can be called from kernel command line), that's when it is dying. The only machine I'm having trouble with is the same one that will be the only one to do any updates, maybe this will fix the problem.
The updates didn't make any difference. It still hangs at the videomode change. Was able to get a read out one time that one of the video cards had wrong ROM contents?
Have had to use the top level ftp.archlinux.org just to get the most recent updates, without having to fish through mirrors.
My presumption is that the kernel/video hardware is just not working in console mode or the graphics mode.
Strangely enough both of my hardwares, one is a mobile intel 945 and the other is a desktop 945. The mobile works without a hitch, and the desktop freezes.
Last edited by nomorewindows (2010-08-15 21:23:56)

HP Pavilion p6670t desktop randomly freezing with distortion to monitor (suspect hardware issues)

HP Pavilion p6670t desktop
Intel Core i3 550
Windows 7 64-bit
Intel HD graphics
I get random freezing on my computer with distortion to the screen (some of the colors look off, and I see thick purple vertical lines).
I'm not running any labor intensive processes (sometimes not even doing anything when it freezes). The temperatures are cool.
No BSOD.
I ran HP's hardware diagnostics tools, and everything passed. Ran Memtest on each individual stick and all together, and they all passed as well.
I suspect video hardware problems, but since it is integrated with my mainboard, I was wondering if anyone would have any suggestions before I go out and buy new hardware.
Thanks!

when the blue screen comes up next time, write down any error codes (long string of numbers) this will give you an idea on what the problem could be. write them down and either come back here or google the code... it sounds like hardware failing... could be your hard drive or maybe ram failing. one thing you can do is open it up and make sure you remove all the dust and lint from the inside and you can re-seat your ram chips along with checking your Hard Drive cable/ribbon

Computer Randomly Freezing withing past few weeks

Hi,
more recently my computer randomly will freeze up several times of the day either if I'm just sitting here doing something on it or go away for awhile to find that it has froze. Sometimes when It freezes though, everything will be frozen and unclickable, but yet the mouse will still be able to move around. Control, Alt, Delete will not work at this time either. So I then will have no choice but to turn it off and back on from the power button. If you need any more info to help acess the problem, feel free to ask.
Could use some help.
Important details:
I have a HP Pavilion Elite HPE
Operating System: Windows 7
Virus Protection: Kaspersky Internet Security 2014
Age of computer: Aprox. 5 y/o

123,
At the least, eliminating possible "trouble spots" makes it easier to find the underlying reasons that things are not working as they should.
You might spend some time staring at the Resource Monitor to see if any one or two processes are hogging the CPU or perhaps creating another type of bottleneck.
Another thing to look for: Too many or the wrong kind of browser addons. Some of the addons are pretty nice; some addons can end up costing you CPU cycles while they spin and check and process whatever information they must digest.
Happy New Year 2014!
Kind Regards,
Dragon-Fur

Win 7 randomly freezes with HDD light on

I'm struggling with this for some time now. My win 7 x64 just freezes from time to time with HDD light on constantly. I've read almost all threads, tried almost every advise, but just could't solve the issue.
I have win 7 Enterprise x64 + SP1 installed on PC:
Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @2.66GHz
Gigabyte P43-ES3G
8GB RAM (4x2GB Kingston DDR2),
2x1TB HDD (WD)
NVIDIA FeForce 9500GT
Next, I'll list what I've already tried (without success) to not waste anybody's time - tried to change hardware, scan HDD for errors, set memory timings, reinstall win, scan for viruses, update all drivers, update BIOS.
(Maybe) important is that the same thing happens in safe mode. However, I've got no problems with other OSs like Linux or Win XP x64.

comibat & ddrouin: Usually when I run into situations like this, the presumption is that its a relatively new issue, meaning, you haven't have this problem from day 1 of computer
ownership. Right? So, the first thing is to examine what changed recently? We should be considering things like, but not limited to, the following:
Application installation or removal
System configuration change
Driver installation or removal
Hardware installation or removal
Windows updates
Etc.
comibat:
When you boot into Safe Mode (with & without networking; that could be key) & let it sit, for a while, does it seem to hang?
When you performed a clean boot & left it for a while, it also hung, correct?
Does it seem to matter whether or not your machine is connected to a network (wired or otherwise)?
If this something repeatable, like within an hour for instance, you may want to load up Resource Monitor & leave it in the foreground until it happens. When it comes back to normal there should be some results for review. (It may not update
while its in its hung state, but, when it 'comes back to life' it should show you throughput, usage etc and the process(es) associated with it. Unfortunately, this may mean leaving the computer on for a while & not touching it. (Unless
of course its unique to a sequence of events.)
You should consider loading up Performance Monitor as well and creating a counter. Unfortunately, this is probably something you'll just have to let run until it happens, then make note of the date & time for review once it 'comes back to life'.
I would do some research on Performance Monitor & how to setup counters. You could try this counter...
Logman.exe create counter Perf-Counter-Log-1sec -o "c:\perflogs\PerfTest1sec.blg" -f bincirc -v mmddhhmm -max 500 -c "\LogicalDisk(*)\*" "\Memory\*" "\Network Interface(*)\*" "\Paging File(*)\*" "\PhysicalDisk(*)\*" "\Processor(*)\*" "\Process(*)\*" "\Server\*" "\System\*" -si 00:00:01
ddrouin: If you haven't already done so, you may want to consider starting your own thread. (I haven't checked, just a suggestion incase you have not) That said: In addition to the
above, is there any commonality between the three systems (the Lenovo, Asus & your friend's computer)?

Constant Random Freezing with iPhoto 6.0.3

I've been having the most frustrating time with the latest iPhoto 6.0.3 update. Ever since this particular update, iPhoto has constantly been beachballing, and I have to force quit it almost all the time. There really is no pattern to when it happens. It could be when I am impOrting photos from my new Kodak V530 or it could be when I am browsing through pictures. Initially I thought it was my camera, but then almost any action that I do in iPhoto results in a beachball.
I've tried using BatChomd, to fix the ownership and permissions. This morning I tried to use iPhoto Library Manager to rebuild the library, but of course, somewhere during the process, iPhoto froze and I had to restart it, but it kept quiting anytime IPLM tried to reimport the photos from where it froze. I've also deleted the iPhoto preferences.
I am at my wits end at what to do. I have over 5500 photos and am starting to get concerned that I may have to reinstall OS 10.4. I have not tried using iPhoto with another user account though. Will that change anything? Any help would be appreciated.
TIA!
PowerMac Dual G4 1.25ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6) 2.0 gb RAM

I am having a similar problem to aiquille's. In my case, any time I try to go back in the photo library file beyond the last 2 or 3 import-downloads from my Canon A80, the little round ball starts spinning and iPhoto in effect freezes. Many of the files I imported from iphoto on my older computer (iMacG4) to my iBook G4 come through as blank gray rectangles or they don't come through at all and I get a message saying they are unreadable. Several times I have seemingly lost the entire library of nearly 5,000 photos and then when I try to rebuild, many of the photos won't come through. I know they are there somewhere in the computer, but I can't load them onto my iPhoto library. I am not a computer geek by any stretch, so please reply so an idiot can follow! Sorry! Many thanks!
ibookG4, iMacPower PC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6) do not have Tiger on the MacPowerPC G4 (Panther), also have Canon A80 digital camera

My mbp with 10.8.2 is randomly freezing. Is there any test i can run?

My mbp with 10.8.2 is randomly freezing. Is there any test i can run? Software and hardware,?

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Random freeze, always when using 'save as' or 'open with' or 'attach'

For quite a while now I get random freezes (no specific event started this, and I cannot remember if it did it pre-10.6 it used to be very sporadic and gotten worse over time). I first thought it had to do with my temp control in my graphic card (RadeonX1900), since I had a lot of freezes when playing games. I controlled that by cleaning the dust and using smcFanControl, but I still have the random freezes. So I think this is something unrelated to temp control...
It happens randomly, sometimes once a week, sometimes 10 times a day, and it doesn't seem to relate to the amount of usage and what kind of usage on the mac.
But always these kind of events triggers it: 'save as' in any application. 'open with' in the finder. 'attach' in Mail. So whenever an application needs to show me what is on my computer (excuse my lack of technical terms). And it seems to happen more often when timemachine is backing up.
When it happens the only thing to do is to restart by holding the power button.
I run cocktail once a week, I have cleaned up using Clean My Mac. I have done a reinstall of snow leopard.
I would like to avoid doing an erase and install since I do not have the discs for a lot of software and the ones I do have, it would take forever to get everything installed and running again.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Danielle

I've used that version on Tiger quite well, but if you're worried, I can give you a direct download link to an older archived one, (batchmod_137.dmg).
But I think something stranger is going on now, I'd try this Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
First reboot will be slower, sometimes 2 or 3 restarts will be required for full benefit... my guess is files relying upon other files relying upon other files!
Disconnect the USB cable from any UPS so the system doesn't shut down in the middle of the process.

IMac (i3 2010) random freezing and now with 3 beeps

Hi I have a 21" iMac i3 base model with 8Gb of Ram (see below).
Ever since I got the mac about 10 months ago it has been randomly freezing up, becoming completely unresponsive to any input (keyboard mice etc), and can only be fixed by a hard reboot (holding down power button).
It can happen while I am away at lunch and I come back to find it frozen on the screen saver. Other times I'm just browsing the web (nb has happens with safari, firefox, and chrome). While others times I have been using the system to its fullest. There never seems to be a reproducible way of triggering it. I can go for a week without issue, and then it can happen 6+ times a day, and they go back to being fine again for awhile. Although it has been getting progressively worse over time and more constant.
I have tried repairing permissions (disk utility and onyx). Defraged the drive (drive genius), run TechTools pro and it passed all the tests. I don't have access to the orginal disks (work iMac) so running the AHT is not possible, as is a clean instal.
I updated to 10.6.8 this week, and now when it freezes, it is now accopained by 3 loud beeps...pause...3 beeps etc etc.
This suggests that it could be a memory problem, but I have never had a problem during the boot up process, and as I said it has passed the memory test on both TechTools6 and Rember, I'm not sure if this is the case.
Because the system completely frezzes, there is no log or error reports created, meaning that pin-pointing the issue or even having proof for the tech-guys/Apple is difficult.
Has anyone got any suggestions on a fix, or how I might be able to get an error report, or how I could induce the problem on que.
Thanks heaps
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Model Name:          iMac
Model Identifier:          iMac11,2
Processor Name:          Intel Core i3
Processor Speed:          3.06 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache (per core):          256 KB
L3 Cache:          4 MB
Memory:          8 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed:          5.86 GT/s
Boot ROM Version:          IM112.0057.B00
SMC Version (system):          1.64f5

Ok so it definitely appears to be the RAM. I have found a way to reproduce the crashing....Running Prime95. Its normally takes about 15-30min on the stresstest to get the system to lock up.
But here is the strange thing. It only seems to work if I have the full 8Gb installed.
I have run each 2Gb stick by itself without issues.
And then run 6Gb, changing the empty slot each time, and again no crashing.
I found the following thread also has similar issues, with the RAM the most likely cause.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15610565#15610565
I can discount USB,wifi,bluetooth as I tried this and still managed to get a crash.
But I did have screen sharing on so I am now testing if I can run the 8Gb with this disabled.
Will report back with my findings.

My MBP keeps freezing with red and black vertical lines. What's going on?

About once a week my early 2011 i7 macbook pro seems to freeze with these weird lines on screen. I was using Adobe Photoshop CS6 and had quicktime playing an mp3 in the background. Nothing out of the ordinary happened that I know of that could have triggered the computer locking up.
I took my MBP to the Apple store and they said it passed all diagnostic tests. They suggested that since it is sporatically happening, it may be weeks before an answer is given to the problem that I am experiencing. Here are some pictures I took when my mac last froze.

Were you ever able to resolve this? My friend's early 2011 MacBook Pro with your same specs except with 10.6.8 just did the same thing while Google Earth 7.1.2.2019 was running. Never any other issues, just happened out of the blue.

No more "random freezing" with my MbP ....

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