System freeze during shutdown

I have noticed a couple of times that during shutdown immediately when plymouth kicks in the system just freezes. It is not leaving behind any logs. And it does not occur often. I use kde 4.4 rc2 from kde-mod. But this occurs after kdm quits and plymouth kicks in.
Anyone else facing the same issue? Any ideal how I can debug this?

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
To follow on from the advice re ensuring the driver is the latest version before attempting any other fix, if the problem continues, it is by far better to have the system shutdown gracefully by pulling the USB connection than to shutdown by removing power! At worst, disconnecting the USB cable would do no more than cause problems to the system's printer setup files or print queues, but disconnecting the power COULD cause significant damage to directory and file structure on the hard drive, and actually result in the system being unable to boot.

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why does my windows 7 system freeze during adobe reader installition

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Safari causes system freeze during page load

Description:
I've been trying to figure this one out for a while now (about 2 weeks), without any luck. I've tried reading a couple of threads describing similar problems, but it looks like I've got something else going on here seeing as it affect the entire system. I appreciate any suggestion!
When a window in Safari is open and you're loading a page, it sometimes (almost always) causes a system freeze. Any action performed on any input device within OSX while a page is loading gets delayed by 5-20 seconds. Anything from right-clicking, to opening a new tab in Safari, to navigating to a new folder in Finder.... literally anything. The actual loading of the page is also affected by this. So when I click a link, the page becomes white and the system stalls. After X seconds, the system resumes and the page is displayed fully loaded. Once the page is loaded, everything is back to normal. I can just leave the Safari-window open without anything happening. It's just during the loading of a page.
Using the mouse to move and switch between open windows are the only actions I seem to be able to perform during the system freeze.
When it doesn't cause a system-wide freeze, it will still take forever for any page to load. Which isn't a problem in any other browser and I've never had any speed issues in general on any device.
What I know for sure is that I can solve the problem by closing all open Safari-tabs and windows or closing the app completely, and use Chrome instead. But I do like Safari, so I hope there's another way to fix this.
I should also note that I've made no changes to the system for many weeks now, other than installing whatever updates might have been available on the App Store.
What I've tried within Safari:
- program restart
- reset settings (every option checked)
- disable and remove extensions (only had one installed, LiveReload for Adobe Brackets)
- empty cache
- delete cookies
What I've tried within OSX:
- system restart
- complete OSX-recovery
- activity monitor (CPU, HDD and RAM always within normal values during all of this)
- checked HDD (successfull)
- checked internet-connection (got 50Mbit/s connection, no speed issues, checked on multiple devices)
- tried other browsers (Chrome (OSX) and IE (Win 7, Parallels) both run smoothly)
- turned off IPv6 in terminal (based on a suggestion here at the forums)
- disabled iCloud-sync
- disabled Dropbox
- probably a couple of other things i can't remember right now

So... I finally fixed it.
In addition to the things I mentioned I tried, I also checked if it could be malware-related. It wasnt. I then checked if it was just affecting my user-account or OSX globally. I created a new account and Safari ran perfectly. I therefore assumed it had to be something in my library-folder.
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System hangs during shutdown, blue screen with gear spinning.

My MBP gets stuck during shutdown/restart process.
The system acts like it is shutting down, exits the the desktop, goes to a blue screen with a spining gear then never turns off. It seems the screen falls aslep if you leave it awhile but the system itself won't actually shutdown. If you move the mouse the screen lights back up. but still shos the "death gear"! happens on both shutdowns or restarts. System must be turned off by holding the power switch for 10 secs.
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Chris

Seems like a odd thing. If youve downloaded torrents of hacked programs or things like that may have been the cause by the uploader hacking and doinng this. I would bring the Macbook Pro to the apple store and see what they can do. If they cant do anything about it I would backup all the important programs and get rid of anything that seems suspicious. Then upload the stuff back onto the computer after you restore it. Thats the best solution.

My system freezes during start-up "for first time" after running System Recovery.

HP G62-227CL
Win 7 (64 bit)
No error message, per se; just a frozen screen during reboot.
Months ago, my computer suddenly started glitching on me. I shut down and tried a reboot. The system froze on the boot screen with the flying colors. Tried system recovery several times but must have done something wrong because it would not run. Resolved to buy a new hard drive and reinstall from recovery discs. Delayed for no good reason until today, months later.
Before buying new hard drive, decided to run System Recovery again. It worked! I tried the option that deleted everything and restored to original factory settings and software. Everything appeared to work like a charm: hard drive reformatted, software reinstalled, system prompted me for a reboot. I did. Windows started to start, "Setup preparting your computer for the first use" appears . . . and freezes. For hours. Hard drive indicator light is off.
BTW, made sure that the Wi-Fi button was on as I read about Recovery issues if it was off when the program ran.
Rebooted. Hit F11. Ran maintenance and checked hard drive for errors. There are errors. Unfortunately, the default setting of CHKDSK does not repair them. Opted for a command prompt. Rand CHKDSK again with "/f /r" option seen in other posts. I'm too ignorant here to get the program to run properly, I guess. I ran CHKDSK on both drive X and C. No errors found . . . sort of. I know they exist because the system will not boot up. (Yes, I tried again.) Back at command prompt, I tried to run CHKDSK on drive C again. This time I received a message that I would first have to unmount (dismount?) the drive. As I do not know what this means, I opted for "no" and have decided to post this message for assistance.
So. Suggestions on what I do next? More specifically: how do I get CHKDSK to repair the errors it found? I believe the message was: "Errors in $130 of sector . . ." It displays this message twice at 62% completion. Freezes for a long time. Gets going again only to slow to a crawl again around 70% but for not as long. Then returns back to the start screen of System Recovery.
Ran System Recovery again for kicks. Again, appeared to work like a charm. Unfortunately, the laptop is once again sitting frozen on the "Preparing . . . for first use" screen again. It is getting hotter the longer it sits. The fan is now audibly running at higher rpms . . . if any of that helps. I'm shutting it down and waiting for your advice.
Thanks!
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Hello Miles1966. I understand you're experiencing some issues with your notebook freezing.
This does sound like a hard drive problem. The freezes, missing HDD indicator light, and inability to perform a recovery are all symptoms of a failing hard drive. You had been using CHKDISK previously but have you tried running the diagnostic which is built into the BIOS? Try following these steps and post the result of the diagnostic. I suggest running the memory test as well just in case.
Let me know the result of these diagnostics. I hope you have a great day!
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Arch freezes during shutdown + cpu watchdog output

Hi all.
Just after the shutdown sequence is about to finish my archlinux freezes. After ~25 secs after freeze it spits out out some information:
migration/1[8] exited with preempt_count2
--------[cut here]----------
WARNING: at kernel/watchdog.c:277 watchdog_overflow_callback+0xdc(0x100 C)
Hardware name: HP Compaq 6530b (GB975ET#ABN)
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# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
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# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
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# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
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CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
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System freeze during Internet Browsing

On my Test PC I'm suffering from PC lock ups during web browsing. It affects both Internet Explorer and Firefox, and uninstalling AV or disabling add-ins doesn't help. I can browse fine for a few minutes, but the longest I've gone before lockup is about 10 minutes. Other network activity (ie playing Lord of the Rings Online) has been steady as a rock.
I'm guessing it's a hardware compatibility issue, as if this affected everyone there would be a lot of threads about it.
I saw a thread on another forum : http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/2909-7-freezes-while-browsing-internet.html which interestingly had the same issue, with very similar hardware (same processor, motherboard, sound, and same brand of graphics card).
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Darzil

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Processor a
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64 kilobyte primary memory cache
6144 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Drives
1300.28 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
607.60 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
FSFYL F8LEB0D6N SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW GGC-H20L ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]
WDC WD3000GLFS-01F8U0 ATA Device [Hard drive] (300.07 GB) -- drive 0
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IDE Channel [Controller] (6x)
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Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH 4 port Serial ATA Storage Controller 1 - 2920
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AD21E9TH IDE Controller
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
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Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2935
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2936
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2937
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2938
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Slot 'A2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A3' has 2048 MB
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10.4.11 imac freezing during shutdown

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Hi Alexis, and a warm welcome to the forums!
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Original message preserved in case anyone has the same problem:
On a fresh install, if I boot the latest kernel (3.13.5-1 at the time of writing) booting will stop midway through the systemd startup sequence. The specific line it ends on varies, sometimes it's "Starting Sound Card", other times it's "Starting Load/Save Random Seed." The system cursor stop blinking.
Adding debug to my boot parameters gives a large number of errors along the line of "Assertion: dual_timestamp_is_set has failed in sd_event_now_get_monotonic".
After this boot continues for a while, before freezing as described, without any sort of error or noteworthy output (as far as I can tell.)
Using the latest lts kernel (3.10.32-1) boot does finish, although it gives the same Assertion error as above. Also, the i915 module gives the error "preliminary hardware support disabled" and no modesetting is done. When trying to start X there are "No screens found"
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http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ … 0fykh.html
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MBP Freezes during shutdown - User befuddled

Hey everyone,
I'm having a problem that I'm pretty sure is due to the amount of peripherals attached to my notebook, but I'm not really sure how it can be remedied. First off I have a 15" 2.16Ghz MBP with 1gig RAM 7200ATA w/ 2 partitions 1 MACOS EX Journaled and 1 FAT32 for booting windows.
I've been having a fairly consistant problem when shutting down my computer when it's set up at home. It goes through most of the motions just fine but freezes at the point when the screen blanks out and you see the spinning elipse. The little icon spins around twice and then just halts...leaving me to have to pull the battery in order to get it to shut down.
This doesn't happen when I use it mobiley (?) but does when I have it set up at home with some of my many peripherals. When at home I have it connected to 1 external firewire 400 HD as well as 1 ipod w/doc and a griffin powermate, both connected to the left side of the notebook through a powered USB 2.0 hub.
I'm pretty sure that one, if not all of these devices is causing the trouble. My question is how is this causing the shutdown problem? And how can I avoid this problem without having to ditch any of the devices I use on a daily basis?
Another possible, though unlikely, posibility could be an extreme amount of heat that the thing produces. I know they run a little hot, but I really have yet to hear a fan turn on (was planning to take it in to confirm it was runing properly). I know this is a long shot but it's the only other constant that occurs when I have this problem.
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Jlerch,
I experienced the same once, when -after choosing "Shut Down" from the menubar- I accidentaly but quickly unplugged my external drive (LaCie BigDisk Extreme 600GB with FW800) and closed the lid -I was in a hurry...
My MBP froze. After 30 seconds or so, it went to sleep and would not wake. I left it for an hour and, when I tried to start it up, it was like nothing happened. And this has never happened again.
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Aug 14 23:27:51 freds-computer diskarbitrationd[69]: System Events [428]:38727 not responding.
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Aug 14 23:27:51 freds-computer diskarbitrationd[69]: Finder [374]:31491 not responding.
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Aug 14 23:27:51 freds-computer diskarbitrationd[69]: loginwindow [113]:18243 not responding.
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IPAD 2 freezes on Shutdown and is now stuck, how do I unlock it?

Hi Folks,
My shiny new engraved iPad2 freezes during shutdown and it now stuck with spinning shutdown icon :-( I left it over night and it's still spinning 8 hours later. There's no way to force power it down and unlock it. When I connect it to itunes I get a dialog that states "unknown error occurred (0xE8000065)".
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Ok, I called the tech support. The solution to unfreeze the iPAD 2, is to hold down the HOME and the POWER buttons simultaneously for over 16 seconds. This will reset the iPAD and you should see the metallic Apple Logo as the iPAD basically reboots itself.
Why the iPAD got frozen in the first place is still a mystery :-( But anyhow, it's all working just fine now :-)
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Tom.

Windows freezing during boot,after vga drivers installation

System freezes during the boot process,as soon as i install nvidia drivers.i ve tried eliminating the problem with several ways,but nothing seems to solve it.different windows version,different drivers version,different cpus,different memories,nothing attached on the board except the hdd and ram,different psu,manually installing drivers,stopping nvidia services,different vgas(9600gt,9800gt,gts240/250)although it works with pov 9300gs or 8600gt 512.additionally,system boots up normally in safe mode.is there anything you can possibly propose?
thanks in advance.
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memory:2x kingston 2gb 6400
psu:premier 450w
vga:point of view 9800gt 512 green edition
os:windows xp pro 32bit
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pci:serial port oem card

guys i have the exact same problem it has nothing to do with psu i have a coolermaster 800W and a msi9800gt vga this m/b has compatibility issues with nvidia graphics drivers and some nvidia vgas. I have two of them. Both have the same problem get an AMD graphic card. Trust me i know what i'm talking about. I tried every possible solution out there nothing worked. I emailed msi technical support they just send me latest bios and latest drivers nothing. I tried to update vga bios nothing. I tried tree different psu all from different vendors guess what nothing. I changed my memory modules nothing. I changed cpu nothing. I tried every bios available nothing.

P67a-GD65 System Freezes and Recovers During 3D gaming and Online Video

The Problem:
Temporary system freeze with audio stutter. The system recovers 30sec - 2min later.
Key presses made during freeze will execute after system recovers (ctrl+alt+delete for example)
Usually, but not always, I see an error message in the system tray and I do NOT experience bsod.
This happens seemingly at random from 3D accelerated applications, and web browsing. Games such as BF3 (moderate), WoW (seldom), Planetside 2 (frequently), Minecraft (seldom), Hawken (seldom), etc.
Also happens frequently in both Internet Explorer 9/10, Firefox, Chrome, and Steam store browser. Typically when watching steaming video (youtube, HULU, flow player, etc)
but Pandora audio streaming also seems to create the conditions where this happens.
Error Message:
"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered
Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernal Mode Driver 314.07 stopped
responding and has successfully recovered"
The problem also shows up in the Windows reliability history with the following data:
Source
Windows
Summary
Video hardware error
Date
‎3/‎6/‎2013 9:11 PM
Status
Not reported
Description
A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.
Problem signature
Problem Event Name:   LiveKernelEvent
OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID:   1033
Files that help describe the problem
WD-20130306-2010.dmp
sysdata.xml
WERInternalMetadata.xml
Extra information about the problem
BCCode:   117
BCP1:   FFFFFA8011E0C4E0
BCP2:   FFFFF8800654A198
BCP3:   0000000000000000
BCP4:   0000000000000000
OS Version:   6_1_7601
Service Pack:   1_0
Product:   768_1
My System Hardware:
CPU: Intel i7 2600k @ 4.5ghz
Motherboard: MSI p67a-gd65 (B3 stepping)
Memory: G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
GPU: Originally MSI 6950 2GB. Replaced with EVGA 670 FTW 2GB.
PSU: CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W
HDD: 3x Western Digital WD RE4 WD5003ABYX 500GB in Raid 0
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 with all updates
Case/Cooling: Silverstone Raven 2E with Thermalright silver arrow cpu heatsink
What I've tried:
Updated all motherboard drivers and bios (4.3) to current versions (no improvement)
Updated display drivers (in safe mode with driver sweeper. No improvement)
Updated Realtek Audio drivers for onboard sound (no improvement)
Updated Intel Rapid Storage drivers (no improvment)
Cleared CMOS and tested system at default settings with no overlock (no improvement)
Flashed 6950 back to 6950 stock bios and removed overclock (no improvement)
Replaced old 6950 with new GTX 670 (problem still occurs in the same exact way)
Tried GPU in 2nd PCIe slot. No improvement.
Checked GPU Temps. GTX 670 fan profile in EVGA Precision X set to keep temp below 70 degrees Celcius. Card maxes at 60 degrees under heavy gaming load.
Complete reformat of raid array with fresh install of Windows (4 different times) Seemed to help for a few days, then freezes came back
Ran OCCT and Prime 95 Torture tests separately for a few hours at stock and OC settings. System stable with core temps of high 50's overclocked, and low 40's stock.
Ran Memtest86 for 10 hours with zero errors.
Used digital multimeter to test 12v rail on PSU. Noted solid 12v reported. Didn't test other rails.
Unplugged PSU cables from motherboard and reattached firmly
Ran HD Tune and Data Life Guard Tools for error checking on hard disks. Zero errors found.
Disabled Windows Aero (no improvement)
Updated Adobe Flash Player to latest setting (no improvement)
Removed Adobe Flash Player (no improvement)
Turned off Adobe Flash hardware acceleration (no improvement)
*EDIT: Forgot that I also adjusted Nvidia driver profiles for apps that have frozen to include power preference to max performance
All of my hardware with the exception of the new 670 was purchased and configured back in February of 2011. This problem first occured in BF3 multiplayer sometime in early 2012,
and has gradually been happening more frequently. Web searches found many individuals with this error, but the solutions are all over the map, and I've tried just about everything that I've found.
I think I've narrowed the problem down to the motherboard, but I just can't find a clear answer or solution. Maybe it's the raid array? I really thought replacing the GPU would solve my trouble here
and I was...NOT happy when it happened again with the new 670 that I scored for $250 after amazon gift cards. I typically get kicked/disconnected during online game play when this happens and I'm ready to be done with it. I was hoping to fix the issue without needing to buy new hardware, but I don't see any other way at this point.
My patience runs thin. Please help!

Quote from: Froggy Gremlin on 11-March-13, 15:28:36
Might want to ask for the special archive to return the mainboard to pre-Ivy support UEFI/BIOS and then test again with everything set to auto/stock/default.
Already tested that before updating to 4.3. I started having the problem on 1.8, then 1.J0, then 4.3.
Quote from: Bernhard on 11-March-13, 15:30:29
Just a shot in the dark.
The length of time that your CPU has been running at the OC could have accelerated the eventual degradation.
Have you tested your CPU in another board or do you have access to a "known good" CPU to test in your system ?
I do not have another 1155 lga board to test the cpu in unfortunately, hence the CPU stress testing. Based upon previous experiences with multiple overclocked systems that I've run at much more aggressive overclocks, I don't believe I'm seeing a processor failure, though I can't rule out the possibility.
Quote from: xmad on 11-March-13, 23:26:01
Quite a few components can cause this.
Do you have a friend that could lend you a psu to test? A weak of failing PSU can often be the cause of something like this?
No I don't have another PSU to test. I did use a digital multimeter to test the 12v rail, as well as the motherboard contacts for testing voltage to the cpu and system They were all right in line with what I'm seeing reported in the bios. I did not test these contacts while the system was under load however, so I may need to do it again.

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