Snow Leopard + Flash 10.3.181.14 Plugin + Freeze

• Mac OS X 10.6.7
• MacPro 12GB RAM
• Latest Safari Build
• Flash Plugin (System Preferences Pane) 10.3.181.14
• Adobe Flash CS4 10.0.2
• Coda 1.7
While all Flash objects in all of my browsers (Safari, Chrome, FF, etc) work perfectly, when using Coda to view the websites (which runs using Safari's webkit engine and resources), certain Flash objects cause the Coda program to freeze, and then Coda needs to be Force Quitted.
This was not an issue with the same version of Coda on Leopard, 10.5.x. I also noticed 10.5.x does not use a Flash plugin preference pane. 10.5 has Flash version 10.2. No such problems there.
Visually, every few times the Flash object in question would load, but it would have visual artifacts and random lines, rather than the actual content. It looks very similar to an overclocked, overheated video card screen. See attached screenshot from Coda, vs. Safari. After the glitch happens, the next load of the SWF file causes a program freeze.
Coda's Browser:
Correct View (Safari):
I was able to view the error log in Coda, and came up with this:
6/2/11 2:57:02 PM [0x0-0x106106].com.panic.Coda[3081] Thu Jun 2 14:57:02 mac.domain.com Coda[3081] <Error>: CGBitmapContextCreate: unsupported parameter combination: 8 integer bits/component; 32 bits/pixel; 3-component color space; kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst; 536612288 bytes/row.
6/2/11 2:57:02 PM Coda[3081] NSExceptionHandler has recorded the following exception:
NSUncaughtSystemExceptionException -- Uncaught system exception: signal 10
Stack trace: 0x951d6378 0x90a8c45b 0xffffffff 0x92895f60 0x92896897 0x9261bf05 0x9261b2d0 0x9261af18 0x924fdc35 0x93cf782a 0x93cf64c8 0x924fd79a 0x93cf67fd 0x93cf67fd 0x93cf67fd 0x93cf67fd 0x93cf67fd 0x93cf49e7 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf595c 0x93cf455b 0x93cf0ea2 0x93c51a57 0x93c1ad40 0x93c4c28a 0x9091de02 0x908d9d8d 0x908d9464 0x908d9291 0x90123e04 0x90123bb9 0x90123a3e 0x93c2278d 0x93c21fce 0x93be4247 0x93bdc2d9 0x2a82 0x29a9 0x2
6/2/11 2:57:03 PM Coda[3081] A possible error occurred: (NSUncaughtSystemExceptionException) Uncaught system exception: signal 10
NSExceptionHandlerUncaughtSignalHandler (in ExceptionHandling) + 65
_sigtramp (in libSystem.B.dylib) + 43
0xffffffff
CAOpenGLLayerDraw(CAOpenGLLayer*, double, CVTimeStamp const*, unsigned int) (in QuartzCore) + 1026
-[CAOpenGLLayer _display] (in QuartzCore) + 512
CALayerDisplayIfNeeded (in QuartzCore) + 621
CA::Context::commit_transaction(CA::Transaction*) (in QuartzCore) + 362
CA::Transaction::commit() (in QuartzCore) + 316
-[WebHTMLView drawRect:] (in WebKit) + 629
-[NSView _drawRect:clip:] (in AppKit) + 3510
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 1600
-[WebHTMLView(WebPrivate) _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in WebKit) + 266
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 2421
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 2421
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 2421
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 2421
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] (in AppKit) + 2421
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 711
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 4668
-[NSThemeFrame _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topVi ew:] (in AppKit) + 265
-[NSView _displayRectIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:] (in AppKit) + 3309
-[NSView displayIfNeeded] (in AppKit) + 818
-[NSWindow displayIfNeeded] (in AppKit) + 204
_handleWindowNeedsDisplay (in AppKit) + 696
__CFRunLoopDoObservers (in CoreFoundation) + 1186
__CFRunLoopRun (in CoreFoundation) + 557
CFRunLoopRunSpecific (in CoreFoundation) + 452
CFRunLoopRunInMode (in CoreFoundation) + 97
RunCurrentEventLoopInMode (in HIToolbox) + 392
ReceiveNextEventCommon (in HIToolbox) + 354
BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode (in HIToolbox) + 81
_DPSNextEvent (in AppKit) + 847
-[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] (in AppKit) + 156
-[NSApplication run] (in AppKit) + 821
NSApplicationMain (in AppKit) + 574
_start (in Coda) + 216
start (in Coda) + 41
0x00000002 (in Coda)
However, I could not find any issues in the console raised directly by Flash or Adobe. I'll be cross posting this in the Coda user support group.
What's going on here? Why would this only happen through Coda, which is basically using Safari's engine?

I should add that the SWF object in question here is being loaded dynamically through a lightbox style jQuery plugin. The SWF itself is using SWFobject2 to load. Finally, the SWF object's parent containers are often switched between display: none and display: block.
Again, only the built-in Coda browser has issue with all of this.

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I'm not saying this may help, but it may be worth a try. I was freezing up every few minutes at times. Nothing in over 24 hours.
Harry

I'm selling my macbook so I have formated the hard drive and I am trying to reload mac os snow leopard 10.6 but it keeps freezing?

Can anyone help?

Try a restart.
If that doesn't fix the problem, shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application unistaller. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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Snow Leopard Bootable USB Flash Drive with Lion

I'd like to create a bootable Snow Leopard Flash Drive, after upgrading to Lion. I have multiple Macs with some expensive legacy software and an Apple USB modem (32 bit) I use out in rural areas. I'm assuming this will be a viable solution - is there something I'm overlooking? Has anyone else out there taken this route?
Thank you.

That would have to be a fairly large flash drive in order to install OS X and any PPC aps on it. You'd be much better off installing Snow Leopard on a separate partition on your internal HDD or an external one. (Since you have multiple macs, installing on an external HDD seems to be best.

All browsers crashing in Snow Leopard!

I've been trying for a while now to send an e-mail through my Google Apps account and every time it will crash on me at some point. After many attempts I have the draft written, the recipient e-mail address saved, the subject saved and now I'm trying to attach a PDF.
I thought it might be the new Safari in Snow Leopard so I switched to Firefox. Same issues. I thought it might have something to do with running the 1Password 3 beta so I grabbed Chromium. Same issues. I even tried Opera to no joy. I'm a web designer, I have lots of browsers. I'm also running the latest versions of each so there shouldn't be any glaring Snow Leopard incompatibilities.
The only plugin I was running with in Safari was 1Password and given that neither Chromium nor Opera supports it I don't believe it's that.
I also shut down every single program except Text Edit to see if something was interfering. Didn't help.
I repaired disk permissions. A bunch of Flash Player issues popped up but the problem persisted even after they were repaired.
Any program that in any way effects anything on my system has been turned off yet they all keep crashing! I don't know why. There's nothing I can think of that all four browsers have in common! Help!

And I chose to address the Safari part of the thread as it works fine on my system.
I don't use Opera or Firefox and Google Chrome was in Beta stage for Mac the last time I looked (so can't really be considered bug free).
Firefox has a similar underlying code to Safari (which is why some sites state you are running Mozilla / Netscape / Firefox when in fact you are running Safari). Opera (at least on the Windows side) identifies or emulates Internet Explorer / Safari / Netscape / Mozilla /Firefox for compatibility reasons with certain sites and plug ins.
If these browsers are all identifying themselves as basically the same thing, there may be a common shared library of plug ins. If it is a Safari plug in the other browsers are using, the same issue may be replicated on all browsers, hence I suggested clearing cache and resetting Safari.
The other possibility is Opera and Firefox are not Snow Leopard compatible.
I did understand the original post jmd1033, but I'll make sure I check with you before making any further suggestions.

Contextual Menu Plug-in for Finder in Snow Leopard

I have Contextual Menu Plug-in for Finder which works with my application, but it doesn't work in Snow Leopard. I read that plugins are not supported in 64bit environment. There is still Menus.h file with CFPlugin interface in 10.6 SDK, but my plugin not loaded by Finder even it is compiled for x86_64.
I read about revamped Services that they should be used, but I didn't find a clue how to create dynamic menu with tree of items.
I need to communicate with another application which runs on background and creates menu items in dependency of selected items, their path and other conditions.
Application is written in Java and CMPlugin (which doesn't work in 10.6) is in C++.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

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Guys, any suggestion?

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

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

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

System freezes when attempting to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion

I hope someone can help me out there. I have downloaded the Lion upgrade install program and built an install disk on my jump drive using Lion Diskmaker 2.0.2, but when I tried to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion using the jump drive, the install freezes at 24% and I cannot reboot or anything. It just keeps coming back to the install screen. Any suggestions?

This could be due to a number of causes. If you have the Lion installer application, then I suggest you put it in your Downloads folder. Now do this:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
When you've done the above you should now double-click on the Lion installer application in your Applications folder. When prompted click on the Install button. Note that you will not use the flash drive you made as you shouldn't need it. And, this will avoid any issues with a bad flash drive installer.

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