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)

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Both times, the solution to the undetectable EHD problem was to plug in the drive's power source directly into the wall socket and the drive would promptly show up on my desktop. (It doesn't matter whether I plugged the USB directly into my Macbook or kept it plugged into the USB hub.) Once I do that, I can eject the drive, plug it back into the power strip, and it works just fine. I verified the drives in Disk Utility both times and they tested ok.

I'm replying to my own post here since it's far to late to update the original message: To update: after more than 6 months, I can verify that the solution given at bottom of my original post (plugging the drive directly into a wall socket) has worked every time, both in the US and in Asia. I have no idea why this is so, just that it works.

Premiere elements 8 causes my system to crash, suggestions?

premiere elements 8 causes my system to crash, suggestions?

Version 8 was a bit unstable upon release anyway. Have you downloaded the patch for it?
Meantime, can you please give us more information? Can you be more specific about the crash? Does it literally cause your computer to shut down and reboot?
At what point does it crash? As soon as you start it, or after you've added media to it? If the latter, what model of camdorder is this video coming from and what format and resolution is it?
What operating system are you using? Have you manually gone to Windows Update and installed the non-critical or optional updates that do not install automatically?
How fast is your processor, how much RAM do you have and how much free, clean, freshly defragmented space is on your hard drive(s)? Remember that even brand new computers are a mess of junk files and defragmentation.

Sleeping firewire drive causes system crash

I have a 320 GB external firewire seagate drive connected to my Dual Ghz Quicksilver G4. At least twice a day, when I try to access that drive, I experience a system crash, what I believe to be a kernal panic. I get a message telling me I need to shut my computer down and restart it. I am thinking this is not so good for my computer.
So, either the hard drive is the problem or it's the third party firewire card i have installed in one of my PCI slots. But here's the thing, other drives are connected to that card.
Would keeping the Seagate drive awake stop this from happening? It goes to sleep all the time. Have others experienced problems with the seagate drives? Should I stop using it?

Hi, Aaron. Welcome to the Discussions.
If you are seeing this message, that indicates a kernel panic.
There could be a problem with the FireWire drive or the card. If disconnecting the drive for a few days results in no additional panics, then it is the drive. For that, I'd contact Seagate. If not, the card becomes suspect. An examination of the panic log might prove helpful.
You can also try running Step 1 of the process specified in my "Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption" FAQ against the Seagate FireWire drive.
Checking the FireWire cables, trying different cables or ports, checking that the card is installed correctly, checking that you assembled the Seagate drive and enclosure correctly (sounds like you built the FW drive) are some other troubleshooting steps to consider. The FireWire enclosure itself may be defective.
See also my "Resolving Kernel Panics" FAQ. This FAQ includes step-by-step instructions for identifying and resolving some of the most common causes of kernel panics, including tips like those above.
My FAQ is a roadmap: start at the beginning and work through to the end, following the instruction in the order specified, including the "If all else fails..." section if a cause or resolution is not found in an earlier troubleshooting step therein.
You maybe unable to prevent the FireWire drive from sleeping. Secondary hard drives (second internal, as well as external drives) may not respect the "Put the hard drive(s) to sleep when possible" option if de-selected. I discuss this particular issue in my "Spinning Beach Ball Of Death (SBBOD)" FAQ, specifically in the section entitled "SBBOD spins for 30-35 seconds. You may hear your hard drives spinning up."
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X
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Ultiroute 2001 causes system crash at HASP install

I have an old version of Ultiroute which I only used occasionally on my older Dell D620 laptop. When I got my new (to me!) E6400 laptop, I installed Ultiboard 2001, but not Ultiroute. Now, whenever I try to install Ultiroute, the installer reaches the point where it is installing the HASP driver for the dongle, and every time it reaches this point, the system crashes hard - i.e. screen goes blank for 10 seconds, then the laptop reboots itself. After reboot, Windows tells me that it has receovered from a serious error. When I tell it to send a report, I get a web page that says the crash was caused by a device driver error.
Just for fun, I went to the Alladin website & tried their HASP driver - same result. Examining the parallel port driver in hardware manager (I use this laptop docked tro a Dell dock for Parallel port access) and telling it to look for an update, it says that no newer driver is available. At this point, I'm stuck. Anyone have any ideas? System is a Dell E6400, Win XP SP3. The software is Ultiroute 5.64. I know it's old, but it has worked acceptably in the past, and I have no budget for new software right now.

Hi NevadaDave,
Ultiroute used the Alladin dongle for security protection and if the Alladin driver is crashing the computer, to be honest there is not much we can do about it anymore. From the Allinddin support page, there are several drivers; I am not sure which is the best one for the dongle that was shipped with Ultiroute so try a few.
http://www.aladdin.com/support/hasp/hasp4/enduser.asp
If none of the driver you tried worked, I believe the Personal Ultiroute version didn't require a dongle and I can get this for you. It will have fewer features than the version you own. If this is something you want, send me a private message with your Ultiboard serial number.
Tien P.
National Instruments

System Crashes repeatedly - hard drive issue?

I've been using my G4 933MHz with 2 internal hard drives for quite some time. I started having issues with the system crashing, while the system drive made a binding or poer up/down sound repeatedly. The drives were stacked on top of one another, so I bought a new cable and separated the 2 drives so they are now side by side. I thought maybe it was happening because they were getting too hot or something. The system worked for a few weeks, but is now back to having the same problem.
I've run both the Apple Disk utility and Tech Tool Pro and neither really come up with any problems. The Apple disk utility used to have issues seeing the drives right after a crash. Now it either sees them and says no fix needed or it doesnt see either drive at all.
Tech Tool Pro used to see both drives and all tests ran successfully. Now, I pretty much get a hardware nor supprted message each time I run it. At first I thought my system drive was the problem, but now I'm not sure. The fact that neither drive shows up in the disk utility makes me wonder if there is not some bigger problem. Both drives work perfectly fine sometimes. If I boot up a few times, they eventually show up and everything works fine for about 10-15 minutes, but eventually it crashes again.
Has anyone encountered this problem before? Or have insight into what might be wrong and how I could fix it? Or are there any other tests I can run, besides the normal hard drive tests? I'd just hate to go spend the money on a new hard drive to find out that my drives are fine and it's the system itself that is the problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.
By the way, the second drive is almost identical to the drive that came with the computer. I bought it from a mac dealer and it is the same brand.
Thanks,
Wil

They're both on the same ide cable. It's been setup this way for quite some time. One drive is setup as a master, the other as a slave. Never had any problems for the past couple of years. Issue just started about a month ago. Don't recall anything that may have triggered it. Just one night when I was sitting there, the whole thing froze. Ever since then, it has been freezing sporatically. Now it's doing it about every 2 minutes from when I get it booted up...if I can even get it to boot. Most of the time it just sits on a grey screen, then goes to the blinking folder with the system face and question mark, then after about 20 seconds of that, it eventually boots into the system drive and freezes or boots to the cd. It's completely random from what I can tell, as to which happens.

Total system crash caused by/during FF 6.0.1 update

Here on rock stable Windows 7 64bit SP1 (Dutch).
At 19:00 hrs (local time) today I was surfing normally when suddenly my mouse-pointer froze. Duration was a few seconds and then suddenly a complete black screen. No matter what I did, nothing happened. Only a message from my monitor that there was no signal. My PC was still on but no HDD activity or whatever. Had to do a hardware reset (first time since I have Windows 7).
After a restart in Safe Mode (just to be sure), I did normal restart and all was fine again but still no clue on what happened.
Did check log files and did see that at the moment of the crash FF had been updated to 6.0.1. And sure enough, when I started FF, I got the screen with info on the new build.
All is fine now, was just the 1 crash. Somehow the update caused a total system crash.

Looks like its been fixed for me, not by 6.0.1 but by - Todd Siechen from http://www.dvdthemepak.com
Check out his post at:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=335417
Todd... I love you xxx
After having a nightmare since first day of version 6.0.0 and still no fix after 6.0.1, even after Apple requested the files... You fixed my problem... Checked for duplicate fonts and found about 5, selected "Resolve Duplicates" and everything great, even with old projects... You should work for Apple!
Check out the 2 posts:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=313109
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=366383
1) The first and biggest culprit we found to be causing problems is with font issues. In order to alleviate this problem, open Font Book and make sure all the Fonts that are turned on have no dots next to them. If they do then select them and select "Resolve Duplicates" from the Edit menu. If you are using a different font manager then use whatever tool is available to make sure no duplicate fonts are loaded. iDVD 6 is very sensitive to this.
Many many many many many many many many many many many many many thanks.
Regards,
Charles Teton
United Independent Pictures Ltd.
http://www.makingmymovie.com

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