The Leopard FREEZE!

I have Leopard running on two machines: a Mac Pro and a G5. On both machines (but especially the G5), if left to sleep for a period of time (less than an hour) it freezes up completely.
Just ran to the store and when I came back the Mac Pro had frozen also. Totally freeze up, not even a mouse arrow moving. When this happens I have to use the power button to restart.
Anything I can do? Maybe some small app that keeps the processor busy during sleep?

Double trouble huh?
Get your restore disks out. Check both disks for errors.
Restart your Mac(s) while holding down the C key, pressing the power button and inserting your restore disk all at the same time. An Installer window will open, but do not proceed with any installations. Instead, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities > Disk Utility. In the Disk Utility window click First Aid, and then click Verify. If Disk Utility reports errors, click Repair. When Disk Utility is finished, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Disk. Select MacintoshHD 10.x.x and click Restart.
*"On both machines (but especially the G5"* Try resetting the Power Management Unit. For the G5 first.
Reset SMU on G5
Reset PRAM and NVRAM
For the MacBookPro:
Reset SMC on MacBookPro
Reset PRAM on MacBookPro
Try Leopard Cache Cleaner available here:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/leopardcachecleaner.html
Are you syncing the MBPro with the G5 using File Sharing, or an iDisk?
Carolyn

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Just done a fresh install of Snow Leopard with all updates,iMac 5.1 behaves strange, sometimes I start Google Chrome and look at youtube videos the computer freezes and shuts down immediately, I believe its related to overheating ?

Just done a replacement of the pata DVD drive (its new and is working ok), and a fresh clean install of Snow Leopard with all updates, iMac 5.1 behaves strange, sometimes I start Google Chrome and look at youtube videos the computer freezes and shuts down immediately,
I believe its related to overheating ?
iStat Pro shows GPU diode temp at 66 C, CPU at 48 C, Fan rpms is around 1000
Any ideas somebody ?
The hard disk has been previously checked with state of the art techniques that have confirmed that the hard disk drive is in perfect condition.

1.5-3 minute boot up as opposed to 15-20 seconds
And
why it takes a long time to load a lot of things.
I have restored this
from a time machine partition.
TimeMachine is only a backup and restore, it won't fix issues in software and according to your information, doesn't even optimize the restore for best performance on boot hard drives.
What you need to do to regain your speed is to understand how your machine works
Why is my computer slow?
Fix any and all issues in software following this list of fixes
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
Then follow this defrag method I've outlined
How to safely defrag a Mac's hard drive
Most commonly used backup methods
There shouldn't be need to reinstall OS X fresh unless your having file structure issues which if they are should appear when in the Steps, which then a zero erase and install will cure as well as any bad sector issues, the defrag step wouldn't be necessarry on a freshly installed system obviously as the files are written all together, not in portions all over the drive.
Hope this assists.

A possible cause for the Lion freezes: Spotlight indexing

Does your Mac freeze mysteriously after upgrading to Lion?
Mine had that problem, but after troubleshooting, I seem to have identified the culprit (at least for my MacBook) and, after deleting the offending file, I have since experienced no problem. Here, I will share a case report with the hope that it will help others troubleshoot their computers experiencing the same problem.
The Problem: Mac (running Lion 10.7 or 10.7.1) freezes sometime after logging on. The freeze begins by an inability to get a response to clicks. The cursor is still active, but after a click or two the cursor turns into a spinning disc. After some time, the clock stops updating on the menu bar.
Mine froze consistently after about 15-20 min after logging on. It happened regardless of which application I was using, it froze even if I didn't do anything after logging on. It required a reboot (control-command-power button on a MacBook) everytime.
Was Spotlight indexing active right before the freeze happened? When Spotlight indexing is active, the magnifying glass icon on the upper right corner of your display will show a blinking dot. Mine was.
A Possible Culprit: Spotlight may have encountered a corrupt file on the hard disk during indexing.
What you can do:
Before you do anything, it is recommended that you have backed up all your files. Unfortunately, it is difficult to back up now because the Mac may freeze during the back up process.
1. Check the errors related to Spotlight by opening Console, which is an utility app that you can find in the Applications>Utilities folder. Do you see error messages for "mdworkers"? It does not always show up before the freeze, but this may indicate some problems during Spotlight indexing.
2. Confirm the problem by turning off Spotlight indexing. You can do this in a number of ways, but I will list two ways below:
a) Go to System Preferences and click on Spotlight icon. Under the Privacy tab, click on "+" icon and add the "Users" folder (or any particular folder that you may suspect). The indexing will not happen to files in that folder. Also, turn off Time Machine and disconnect back up disks, if you use any. Apparently Spotlight indexes within the Time Machine backups. OR
b) For experienced users: Open Terminal and type "sudo mdutil -i off" without the quotes. (To turn it back on, type "sudo mdutil -i on /" without the quotes)
3. Try using your computer with Spotlight turned off. Does it still freeze? If it does not, you have confirmed that the problem is with Spotlight indexing.
4. Find the offending file that causes problem by turning Spotlight indexing back on...
a) Remove the folder by highlighting and clicking on "-" button under the Privacy tab. OR
b) For experienced users: Type "sudo mdutil -i on /" without the quotes.
5. ...and then repeating steps 2a, 3, and 4a. Try isolating different folders until you can narrow down the problem. This process may take a while.
6. Once you narrowed down to a few folders, try QuickLook through the contents of the folder while the Console is open. To use QuickLook, highlight a file in the Finder and hit a space bar on your keyboard. It is helpful to set the Finder in a column view so you can use arrow keys to navigate through the folders. Does Console show you an error when you QuickLook a file? Can you double click and open that file? If not, the file may be corrupt. Trash that file and empty trash.
7. Now turn Spotlight indexing back on (step 4) and use your computer for a while. Does it still freeze? If so, repeat the process and find other corrupt files.
For me, it was a single corrupt image file in the Documents folder that caused the freezing problem. I deleted it and the problem went away. Since that file had been untouched for years, and I did not experience the same freezing problem in Snow Leopard, I suspect that Spotlight in Lion is somehow less permissive of corrupt files assuming that the file did not corrupt after the upgrade.
Steps 4-7 is cumbersome and it takes a long time to troubleshoot. If you know of a faster way to identify corrupt files, please share in this thread. Also, I think Spotlight should alert the users when it encounters a corrupt file and give us a choice to delete it on the spot. Please join me by sending a feedback to Apple about this.

My G5, PPC, came with Tiger installed and ran great. I decided to upgrade to Leopard (not snow leopard) and at first it seemed to work well.
Here is where you should backup, reinitialize, and make sure you use retail 10.4 rather than any OEM DVD?
After several days I noticed I have Permission errors that Disk Utility would not fix. (The only way to repair this was to insert the install disk and run Disk Utility from there: which means you have to reimport/install all the OS updates over again)
Some real confusion. Permissions can and should be done while booted from your hard drive; never run from older version of OS X.
Not all permission messages are errors.
Bootable backups (clones).
Invest in 3rd party repair programs.
Eventually the OS was crashing and freezing so I went to a local Apple repair store to ask why. Apparently Leopard is unstable on some G5 towers.
No, not really.
But you do have to insure your hardware, your software, is also current.
I decided to reinstall Tiger and still had problems. After about 5 attempts at reinstalling the OS I realized I was using a disk from a G4 tower that my kids use, so I found the disk that come with my G5 and the install worked perfectly.
So it appears that not all OS install disks are the same:
No secret there. NEVER use an OEM disc except your own; or, use retail full install versions is all. I guess you never came across that bit.
Sorry you had to take so much time, but sounds like came away with some misconceptions.

How do I just remove the current update to 3.6.12 and go back to an earlier version as I can not take the continual freeze ups ever few mins.? If this continues I will remove Firefox totally and switch to another browser I can not take this anymore.

I can NOT take the continual freeze ups of my entire browser even worse when updating a page let alone just opening email. I closed the browser and have had to use even just microsoft or Google since this Firefox has gotten so horrible...
I clear my history and my cache so many times a day I can not keep track anymore and that is insane to have to do it as many times as I am even worse that it does not help in the least!
I have used Firefox for years now but if I have to remove it and switch to a different one by the days end I will and I will post in Facebook to all my friends who I had switch to Firefox what and why though some have already just switched to other browsers.

First, that cannot be an iBook G4 as that machine cannot run Snow Leopard let alone Mountain Lion. To run Snow Leopard it has to be an Intel processor, not a G4. What does it show as the Model Identifier in About This Mac, More Info, System Report, Hardware, Model Identifier?
Second, if you have erased the hard drive there should not be remnants of any prior content. Even though Disk Warrior is saying nothing is wrong with the hard drive, it sounds as though there are problems. You may want to consider simply replacing the hard drive so there are no questions about faults. A good source is OWC, http://www.macsales.com where they also have on-line videos showing how to do the replacement.
Third, you could also try again to restart using the Snow Leopard DVD/CD and use Disk Utility on that install disk to erase again, and do it a couple times, then try to install. If it continues to refuse, then it sounds as though there is a fault with the hard drive.

Snow Leopard Freezes, Reboots, Crashes, Kernel Panics

I have a Unibody MacBook Pro 15 inch, late 2008. I got it with Leopard, and I had absolutely no problems at all with it until I stupidly upgraded to Snow Leopard in September 2009. Since then my computer crashes a lot. Here is a list of problems I've had so far, most of them on seemingly random occasions:
- Kernel Panics (happened around 2 times, both while rendering a video in Final Cut Pro)
- Complete system freeze where the screen freezes on the last thing displayed, the last sound played keeps looping (if I'm in the middle of a Skype conversation or listening to music, for example) and nothing will react (including mouse, caps lock, eject key, the system won't even sleep when I close the lid) requiring a hard reset by holding the power button (happened at least 3 times). This has sometimes happened when all I was doing is listening to music on iTunes, I wasn't even touching the computer, and all of a sudden I just hear the last half second of music looping forever.
- Complete freeze where the mouse would still move, but the system would reboot automatically after a few seconds (happened once or twice)
- Reboots without any warning (happened around twice)
Basically these are my major problems, and all of these have happened in 10.6.1 and 10.6.2, except the kernel panics which have not happened (so far) since I updated to 10.6.2.
I have tried repairing permissions, it didn't change any of the above behaviours.
This is what I noticed:
These problems happen regularly, around one or two times week.
_*The problems only seem to happen when I set my computer to use the dedicated graphics instead of the integrated graphics*_ via "System Preferences > Energy Saver > Higher Performance". If I set that setting to "Better Battery Life", then the problems don't seem to happen at all.
However, I use Photoshop and Final Cut Pro a lot, so I need to set the graphics to +Higher Performance+. Dedicated graphics is one of the reasons I bought this computer, so setting it to Better Battery Life isn't a solution for me.
As I've said before, I'm running OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2, and my machine is a late 2008 Unibody MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM and processor of 2.53 GHz.
I have performed an upgrade to Snow Leopard from Leopard, as opposed to a clean install. Trying a clean install of either Leopard or Snow Leopard will be my last resort if nothing else works, however, I am asking you whether you can think of anything else to solve my problems without having to do a clean install, as it would require lots of work and it would be a big hassle for me.
Thank you very much.

I am having the EXACT same problem, however I have an iMac (24"display, 2.93GHz, 4GB ram.) I think I've narrowed it down to Quicktime, but can't figure out a solution. I have both Quicktime Pro (7.6.3) and the version that comes with snow leopard - Quicktime 10.0.
Here is a list of applications which have been running during a freeze, shutdown or restart.
-iDVD
-Quicktime 7.6.3
-iMovie
-Safari (only when playing video)
-Adobe soundbooth (one time only)
I've tried everything from permissions repair to a clean SL re-install to everything in between.
Any ideas out there??

Leopard freezing

I installed Leopard onto my Macbook (from Tiger) and now the Leopard system keeps freezing on me (i get a message saying Mac OS X has quit unexpectedly), forcing me to restart by holding down the power button. I never had this problem with Tiger. Anyone know what is the cause of this constant.

Here is another one.
Process: DirectoryService [31]
Path: /usr/sbin/DirectoryService
Identifier: DirectoryService
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time: 2007-12-21 10:12:19.051 +0000
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS at 0x00000000b8e4d8c0
Crashed Thread: 7
Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93fe28e6 machmsgtrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93fea0dc mach_msg + 72
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x949d80fe CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1806
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x949d8d94 CFRunLoopRun + 84
4 DirectoryService 0x00016a8f main + 2583
5 DirectoryService 0x0001605a start + 54
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93fe28e6 machmsgtrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93fea0dc mach_msg + 72
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x949d80fe CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1806
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x949d8d94 CFRunLoopRun + 84
4 DirectoryService 0x00022b42 CPluginRunLoopThread::ThreadMain() + 222
5 ...ectoryServiceCore.Framework 0x0015f349 DSCThread::Run() + 39
6 ...ectoryServiceCore.Framework 0x0015f554 DSLThread::_RunWrapper(void*) + 84
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94013075 pthreadstart + 321
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94012f32 thread_start + 34
Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93fe28e6 machmsgtrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93fea0dc mach_msg + 72
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x940578fb machmsgserver + 675
3 DirectoryService 0x00022d7b CMigHandlerThread::ThreadMain() + 303
4 ...ectoryServiceCore.Framework 0x0015f349 DSCThread::Run() + 39
5 ...ectoryServiceCore.Framework 0x0015f554 DSLThread::_RunWrapper(void*) + 84
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94013075 pthreadstart + 321
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94012f32 thread_start + 34
Thread 3:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x940128e6 kevent + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94013075 pthreadstart + 321
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94012f32 thread_start + 34
Thread 4:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94024b45 syscall + 5
1 ...ectoryServiceCore.Framework 0x0015f349 DSCThread::Run() + 39
2 ...ectoryServiceCore.Framework 0x0015f554 DSLThread::_RunWrapper(void*) + 84
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94013075 pthreadstart + 321
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94012f32 thread_start + 34
Thread 5:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93fe9ace _semwaitsignal + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9403a258 pthreadcondtimedwait$UNIX2003 + 72
2 DirectoryService 0x00096a63 sDNSLookup::WaitUntilDone(int) + 179
3 DirectoryService 0x0008854e CCachePlugin::InitiateDNSQuery(sDNSLookup*, bool) + 354
4 DirectoryService 0x0008f980 CCachePlugin::DSgethostbyname_int(char*, char const*, char const*, int, bool, sDNSLookup*, unsigned int*) + 1220
5 DirectoryService 0x00091c48 CCachePlugin::DSgetaddrinfo(kvbuf_t*, int) + 3570
6 DirectoryService 0x000933aa CCachePlugin::ProcessLookupRequest(int, char*, int, int) + 614
7 DirectoryService 0x0000539a CHandlerThread::HandleMessage() + 366
8 DirectoryService 0x00006b05 CHandlerThread::ThreadMain() + 37
9 ...ectoryServiceCore.Framework 0x0015f349 DSCThread::Run() + 39
10 ...ectoryServiceCore.Framework 0x0015f554 DSLThread::_RunWrapper(void*) + 84
11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94013075 pthreadstart + 321
12 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94012f32 thread_start + 34
Thread 6:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94024a97 sigaltstack + 7
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x940cab60 simpleesprintf + 41
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x940caf2d simple_asllog + 599
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x940c8e53 mallocvprintf + 425
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x940c8e8b malloc_printf + 35
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x940c3962 szone_error + 174
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93feaac3 tinymalloc_from_freelist + 361
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93feb04b szone_calloc + 241
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93feaf15 malloczonecalloc + 88
9 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93feaea2 calloc + 62
10 libresolv.9.dylib 0x92abefcf pdns_buildstart + 34
11 libresolv.9.dylib 0x92abf3b1 pdns_convertsc + 27
12 libresolv.9.dylib 0x92ac0f0f checkcache + 537
13 libresolv.9.dylib 0x92ac469b dnslookup_soamin + 135
14 DirectoryService 0x000ccf0a idnadnslookup + 572
15 DirectoryService 0x000882db DoDNSQuery(void*) + 217
16 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94013075 pthreadstart + 321
17 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94012f32 thread_start + 34
Thread 7 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93feab65 tinymalloc_from_freelist + 523
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93feb04b szone_calloc + 241
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93feaf15 malloczonecalloc + 88
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93feaea2 calloc + 62
4 libresolv.9.dylib 0x92abef8b pdns_setname + 85
5 libresolv.9.dylib 0x92abeffc pdns_buildstart + 79
6 libresolv.9.dylib 0x92abf3b1 pdns_convertsc + 27
7 libresolv.9.dylib 0x92ac0f0f checkcache + 537
8 libresolv.9.dylib 0x92ac469b dnslookup_soamin + 135
9 DirectoryService 0x000ccf0a idnadnslookup + 572
10 DirectoryService 0x000882db DoDNSQuery(void*) + 217
11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94013075 pthreadstart + 321
12 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94012f32 thread_start + 34
Thread 7 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0xc008c857 ebx: 0x93fea975 ecx: 0x00006e67 edx: 0xb8e4d8c0
edi: 0x00173000 esi: 0x001730d8 ebp: 0xb031bc08 esp: 0xb031bb90
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010282 eip: 0x93feab65 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0xb8e4d8c0
Binary Images:
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Leopard freezing at startup

I have a Power Mac G5 1.8GHZ (Single), with installed Leopard a few months back and no issues during or following the install. I also have a MacBook 2GHz Core 2 Duo that I use on a day-to-day basis so the G5 hasn't been used frequently since the Leopard install. When I turned on the G5 last night it started up normally until it reached the start screen for Leopard (Dock loaded, Background loaded, task bar at the top loaded). At this point it became unresponsive. I could move the cursor around but the pinwheel was spinning and I could not click on anything.
I have tried waiting to see if it is just a slow load, restarting the computer, resetting the PRAM, resetting the SMU, reinstalling Leopard. I've also tried, unsuccessfully, to boot from the Tech Tool Deluxe CD however it just opens the OS like normal and freezes, and booting in safe mode. When starting up in safe mode it asks for the login information then unceremoniously freezes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.

it looks like you were doing an erase and install. FYI, during the installation at the screen where you choose the destination disk there is an "Options" button. clicking on it gives you a choice of an install type. did you go through setup assistant after finishing the install? if you have it was definitely an erase and install. in that case the problem must be caused by hardware. let's check if this is your hard drive. boot from the install DVD and as soon as you are past the language screen go to the Utilities menu at the top and start disk utility. run repair disk on your hard drive.

Leopard Freezes on Restart

I'm having a Leopard installation problem I haven't seen discussed, so here goes.
Installation appears to go as it should (taking about an hour).
I get a screen saying installation was successful and a count-down to restart.
I click restart.
GRAY screen with Apple appears, and the little circular animated icon goes around and around for a minute or so.
Then freezes.
A two hour wait with a frozen animation produces nothing new.
I've forced a restart with the same result, several times.
Restart while holding down "c" DID get me back to the Leopard install screen, but a second attempted install failed in the same way.
I've seen a suggestion to try "archive and install". I've NOT tried that yet. Will try now and report results.
Since this is not a Blue Screen, I don't think this is the same problem others have had. I do not have Application Enhancer installed on this machine (at least not where other posts have expected it to be.)
If anyone has a fix to this I'd appreciate it. If I find one for myself I'll of course post that here as well.
This is on a MacBook Pro 15 inch, purchased new in August. 2G ram. Plenty of disk space free.
Sigh.
Charles

Thanks very much to chat2ian and Nicolas those were helpful responses.
Here is what seems to have solved my problem:
Force a shutdown from the frozen restart screen by holding down the power button.
Power back up while holding down the letter "c" to force boot from the cd/dvd drive.
Chose the option to "archive and install", rather than the default "update".
After a (lengthy) installation, the installer says it is done and ready to restart.
Click restart.
Hold breath, cross fingers, appeal to appropriate godesses.
After about 30 seconds of gray screen, solid blue screen with cursor appears.
(Think: Great-- progress is a blue screen of death. But wait!)
After a frightening pause, a color wheel appears, and hope returns!
Leopard starts, configuration help runs, and (in my case a least) 5 more packages are ultimately updated, followed by another restart.
This is also a bit of tense drama, but runs about as usual (perhaps a shade slower than Tiger.)
So far, all files and software are present, and life begins to look worth living again.
Nicolas: Sorry I didn't see your reply until after I'd started the "archive and install" run, so didn't get to see if Command-V would show me the same stopping point that you got.
chat2ian: I was within another try of adopting your approach and reverting to Tiger. I started this "simple" update at 9.45 and it is now 20.37.
The irony is I bought the MacBook Pro in August because I wasn't willing to go through another MS upgrade to Vista. I honestly thought this would go smoothly the first time. Silly me.
Thank you both for trying to help.
Charles

IChat 4.0 on leopard freezes after about 5 seconds

I have a 24'' iMac and my wife has a 13'' macbook. We both have the most updated version of leopard on our computers. The problem is that whenever we try to do a video chat with each other, my video freezes up after about 5 seconds, and hers keeps going. We both have set our bandwidth limit to none in ichat and the streaming speed in System prefs> Quicktime to 1.5 Mbps. Anyone know what else could cause this? Thanks

A "Crash" of an application is a Specific thing where you get an Error message saying it "Unexpectantly Quit" and a Log in the relevant Crash Error logs in Console. The marker underneath the app in the DOCK would also disappear.
An App that Freezes or part of the display of it Freezes would not normally be considered as to have Crashed.
Having said that I have had a repeatable issue where a Tester with me could definitely Crash my iChat. Sure enough each time he tried to call my iChat Unexpectantly Quit.
It turned out it was a faulty router at his end.
The Video freezing is normally a Bandwidth Issue (the 363k is fast enough tht this should not happen based on those speeds or the ones you tested)
It can be down to how busy the Processor is with on-line Widgets like Weather and Clock and others. or Background apps and Utilities
The way to see those is to open the Activity Monitor.
7:35 PM Thursday; February 14, 2008

Snow Leopard Freezing showing GPU Debug in Console

I recently updated my iMac from Leopard to Snow Leopard and it began to freeze. I have reset PRAM, SMC, fixed the fonts and looked for anything suspicious in the console. When it freezes there is no obvious crash. It freezes in Safari, Finder and even in Console. The mouse moves, but I cannot do anything. Last freeze shows the time machine icon in mid spin. Console reports npvhash=4095 then GPU Debug info start and hundreds of lines of information. I had this happen on an older machine and the video card was failing.
There is so much chatter about this being related to Snow Leopard, I am wondering if I upgrade to Lion it will all go away?!?
How can I tell if indeed the video card is bad? It is out of warranty and I would like to do as much trouble shooting on my own as I can before, I take it in.
We did not see quite the same behavior in Leopard. Just endless beachball spinning and a few forced restarts. I figured a good clean out of caches, etc would solve the problem along with an OS update.
Thanks for any help and advice in advance,
Debbie

singerdf wrote:
I need to know more about what Safe Mode suggests when things no longer freeze there. I understand only apple stuff is on and only the minimal amount.
This is what Safe Mode is.
In particular what let your computer run normally in this situation is that many of the kernel extensions (aka drivers) are not loaded.
That also means that your Mac is not running at its best performances.
The good news is that at least runs.
I don't know how much this can help in determine the culprit, but have you run Apple Hardware Test?
The first Mac OS X Install Disc that came with your iMac, also contains the Apple diagnostic.
Insert the disc. Turn on the computer, and press D until the diags starts. Follow the on screen instructions to run the tests.
A brief note before ending this post.
Yesterday evening I was watching a streaming video in Google Chrome. When I installed Lion, I purposely didn't install Adobe Flash Player. So I use Google Chrome that has Flash Player incorporated inside the program itself to display internet sites with Flash contents.
After about twenty minutes the screen freezed. The mouse cursor turned into the "spinning beachball of death". The audio continued to play normally.
The /var/log/kernel.log file, uncovered the usual bunch of lines relating to the GPU
Dec 7 21:22:27 rfc-1918 kernel[0]: ** Device in slot: SLOT--1 **
Dec 7 21:22:27 rfc-1918 kernel[0]: ** GPU Debug Info Start **
Dec 7 21:22:27 rfc-1918 kernel[0]: 0x000094c8
Dec 7 21:22:27 rfc-1918 kernel[0]: 0x000000d6
Dec 7 21:22:27 rfc-1918 kernel[0]: 0x00000001
Dec 7 21:22:27 rfc-1918 kernel[0]: 0x00000018
Dec 7 21:22:46 rfc-1918 kernel[0]: 0x00000000
Dec 7 21:22:46 rfc-1918 kernel[0]: 0xc0016900
Dec 7 21:22:46 rfc-1918 kernel[0]: 0x0000008f
Dec 7 21:22:46 rfc-1918 kernel[0]: ** GPU Debug Info End **
About your question, "What I am going to do".
Well. As I wrote, this issue is not so frequent in my case. Also I planned to buy a new iMac next year around march.
But I sincerely hope next Lion update (10.7.3) could patch this misbehaver.

Is the only freezing iMacs the with the 2600 card? is the 2400 not affected

The new firware update is only for 20 and 24" with the 2600 graphic crad.
I havent bought an iMac yet was waiting for the fixes, does this updte mean tht the only iMacs affected were ones with 2600 graphics cards?
Were no freezing issues occuring on the 20" with the 2400 card? if they were I take it Apple are doing the fix for that now as well?
Also do you have to install 1.3 s/ware for Leopard and then do this firware fix for 2600?

The latest software update Apple Imac Graphics Firmware Update 1.0 has deemed my new Mid 2007 2.8 Ghz 24" iMac does not need updating. Normally I would not worry too much about this, as I have in fairness only suffered a few freezes which required a restart by switching the iMac off. However uncertainty is not good when you're entrusting a lot of important data to your computer.
I have definitely had the occasional freeze as described by others; admittedly this was mainly using 10.4.10. I also had the screen corruption in the area of cover flow within iTunes.
It seems more stable since upgrading to Leopard.
What concerns me is not knowing exactly what the latest firmware is correcting and why this isn't necessary for all new Mid 2007 iMacs?
I'm sure it would be comforting for all new iMac owners to know they can be certain how and why their new iMac is definitely not affected?
Does anyone know why only some particular new iMacs are deemed in need of this firmware update?
Please, please Apple issue a statement to clear up all the confusion about this issue, this will stop your loyal supporters from worrying unnecessarily?
Mike (Version 1.0)

My itunes will not open at all. it occasionally will open but when i plug my iphone into it the program freezes and crashes. please help as soon as possible

my itunes will not open at all. it occasionally will open but when i plug my iphone into it the program freezes and crashes. please help as soon as possible

i think i might have a solution... i have windows vista and after i installed to latest itunes update everytime i tried to open it it would freeze. I tried everything, including uninstalling itunes and all of its components and reinstalled it numerous times. So i went to the itunes folder in my folders, not on itunes, and i deleted my itunes library and playlists. After that it worked just fine, all of my music was deleted but luckily i had my files saved elsewhere.
I hope this helped! I know its frustrating and APPLE/ITUNES NEED TO FIX THE PROBLEM!!!!

When I go to a website, it half-way downloads and then the screen freezes for 10-20 seconds while ads appear; this never happened till recently.

Until recently, I loved Firefox. Lately, when I go to any website and try to download a page, the screen freezes for between 10-20 seconds while ads load. Why the screen freezes is both frustrating and annoying. I have the latest version, nothing on my computer is different, and as I said, it didn't used to do this. Any ideas what's going on?

Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile":
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile
There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins" in case there are still problems.
If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+crashes
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/latest-firefox-issues
If you have submitted Breakpad crash reports then post the IDs of one or more Breakpad crash reports (bp-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx). You can find the IDs of the submitted crash reports on the about:crashes page. You can open the about:crashes page via the location bar, like you open a website.
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Breakpad (Mozilla Crash Reporter)
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Mozilla+Crash+Reporter
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report

I can not get my iPad to mirror with Apple TV. When I toggle to mirror the tv screen goes black and the iPad freezes. The iPad iso is up to date

I can not get my iPad to mirror on Apple TV. When I toggle the tv screen goes black and the iPad freezes. Have updated the iOS to latest settings and also updated the settings on the Apple TV

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Try the following steps, check whether things are working after each step where appropriate, before trying the next.
Check AirPlay is turned on on the Apple TV (turn it off and on if it already is)
Check that both devices are on the same network (Settings > Wifi, on the mobile device and Settings > General > Network, on the Apple TV).
Restart the Apple TV (Settings > General > Restart).
Restart the Apple TV by removing ALL the cables for 30 seconds.
Restart your router. (Also try removing it’s power cord for at least 30 seconds)
Restart your mobile device.

I have a new Macbook Pro. When watching Youtube videos, it works perfectly until I attempt to watch the video in full screen. When in full screen, the video freezes immediately and the audio continues. When minimized it works fine as before. Help?

I have a brand new Macbook model A1502. I am taking online college classes that incorporate youtube tutorial videos. I can watch the videos if I don't maximize the screen to full screen. When in full screen, the video freezes immediately and the audio continues uninterrupted. I can press escape and go back to the previous screen and the video continues to play with no problems. Can anyone help me please? This machine is literally just out of the box with maybe an hour of use. Thanks in advance

First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Reset the System Management Controller.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

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