What's happening if my Macbook Air beeps about once every minute?

I just upgraded my Macbook Air to OSX 10.8.1 the other day. Besides that, I diddn't install any new applications. Today, my macbook beeps about once every minute even when I muted it. What is going on?

ok, it turns out that this is just a mistake. the beeping noise doesn't actually come from my laptop... sorry about this. Please disregard the question. I love my mac, and Apple is amazing.

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Anonymous UUID:       8373AEFF-7FCC-FBA1-76D3-4CA19A08F2B5
Mon May 5 23:08:34 2014
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff800b2dbe7e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f8bdd47ac, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x000038250c8b4885, CR3: 0x000000000d6ed000, CR4: 0x00000000001606e0
RAX: 0x000038250c8b4865, RBX: 0xffffff802542af80, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0x7fffffffffffffff
RSP: 0xffffff80ffe538e0, RBP: 0xffffff80ffe53920, RSI: 0x0000000000000050, RDI: 0xffffff800b2f3410
R8: 0x0000000000000068, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x00000000000b0068, R11: 0x0000000000070000
R12: 0xffffff800b2f3410, R13: 0x0000000000000004, R14: 0x0000000080000000, R15: 0x000000000000000a
RFL: 0x0000000000010282, RIP: 0xffffff7f8bdd47ac, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x000038250c8b4885, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x0
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80ffe53570 : 0xffffff800b222fa9
0xffffff80ffe535f0 : 0xffffff800b2dbe7e
0xffffff80ffe537c0 : 0xffffff800b2f3376
0xffffff80ffe537e0 : 0xffffff7f8bdd47ac
0xffffff80ffe53920 : 0xffffff7f8bdd202e
0xffffff80ffe53980 : 0xffffff7f8d0533a5
0xffffff80ffe539f0 : 0xffffff7f8bdd90f2
0xffffff80ffe53a70 : 0xffffff7f8bddc1b9
0xffffff80ffe53af0 : 0xffffff7f8bddb640
0xffffff80ffe53b40 : 0xffffff7f8bddaba5
0xffffff80ffe53b80 : 0xffffff7f8bdd97f6
0xffffff80ffe53bc0 : 0xffffff7f8bdca676
0xffffff80ffe53c10 : 0xffffff7f8bdbfdae
0xffffff80ffe53c60 : 0xffffff7f8bdc3ab4
0xffffff80ffe53cb0 : 0xffffff7f8bdc2798
0xffffff80ffe53e00 : 0xffffff7f8bdb4dd6
0xffffff80ffe53e90 : 0xffffff7f8bdb38ed
0xffffff80ffe53ed0 : 0xffffff7f8be37b0d
0xffffff80ffe53f00 : 0xffffff7f8be3584a
0xffffff80ffe53f20 : 0xffffff800b24a23a
0xffffff80ffe53fb0 : 0xffffff800b2d7047
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(2.0)[5D59740C-447F-37DA-B881-6F470878CF56]@0xffffff 7f8bdaf000->0xffffff7f8be20fff
            dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleFDEKeyStore(28.30)[558B2575-5197-3C4C-BAD2-8CB465638FA8]@ 0xffffff7f8bda4000
         com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver(660.4)[3838C4F6-C8E3-32A3-B42E-14CE8048A506]@0xf fffff7f8be34000->0xffffff7f8be3cfff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(2.0.0)[5D59740C-447F-37DA-B881-6F470878CF56]@0xffff ff7f8bdaf000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(675.4.0)[5C861553-BC5A-3979-A6B4-58C57879DD40]@0xff ffff7f8bcd9000
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            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(2.0.0)[5D59740C-447F-37DA-B881-6F470878CF56]@0xffff ff7f8bdaf000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
13C1021
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Wed Apr 2 23:52:02 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.92.1~2/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: E9CF78E2-1E9F-3B6F-81A4-FEE6C6D0E4D5
Kernel slide:     0x000000000b000000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800b200000
System model name: MacBookPro10,2 (Mac-AFD8A9D944EA4843)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 1544729313486
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My MacBook Air beeps every so often; I think it's new email alerts. How do I turn this feature off? Thanks!

My MacBook Air beeps every so often; I think it's new email alerts. How do I turn this feature off? Thanks!

Thanks for your reply, but I had already turned the sound off there. I also removed email from the notifications shortcut on the top right of the screen.

What do I do if MacBook Air freezes irregularly?

My macbook air is about 2 years old. Twice, when I've logged out, I can't log back in. Once I was running the battery, and as soon as I plugged it in, it worked fine. Just now (again running on battery) it froze in the midst of an email that I was writing. I shut it down and then held the reboot button until it restarted. I am thinking I need to take it to genius bar. I have apple care.

Take it to the Apple store to have it checked out.
You have AppleCare. Why not use it.
Best.

About a month ago, I began periodically getting the spinning wheel while trimming, adding titles or transitions, etc. It lasts for about 15 seconds and then goes away. This seems to happen once every minute or two. I have more than enough RAM/Power.

About a month ago, I began periodically getting the spinning wheel while trimming, adding titles or transitions, etc. It lasts for about 15 seconds and then goes away. This seems to happen once every minute or two. I have more than enough RAM/Power, etc. About every other time I use FCPX it will spontaneously close (typically when editing a title). None of these things were happening previously. I have lots of projects that I store on Promise Pegasus drives via Thunderbolt. I only keep a few projects and the associated events open in FCPX at a time, otherwise I use Event Managaer X to keep track of them. Can anybody give me any suggestions as to why this is occurring and what I can do to remedy it? I have the latest version of FCPX as far as I can tell. This is driving me mad and costing me significant time while editing. By the way, I am doing just basic editing. Essentially trimming, cutting and adding some transitions and a few title screens. Thanks in advance for your help.

These apperarances of the spinning wheel tend to be related to some io operation that takes too long. Maybe the finder is trying to reach a network server that became unavailable.
I would try clearing caches and do an overall maintenance with an utility like OnyX.
Also, trashing preferences does no harm and is often the first troubleshooting measure when FCP X misbehaves.

Macbook Air Beeping Sounds

My refurbished 13" Macbook Air has been making beep sounds every time I close it/put it to sleep. When i open it back up it shows a black screen and beeping noises. (3 beeping noises every 5 seconds) I just got a new hardware and I am not sure it it is the problem .How can I make it stop? I let it beep until the battery dies and i plug it into a power source and it turns on but I can't seem to make it stop beeping.

The 3 beeps every 5 seconds usually occurs when booting a system that has memory issues. The beeps indicate that the memory doesn't pass the power on self test the system does. I'm not familiar with that also happening around sleep, however, would recommend you take it into Apple.

What's happening to my MacBook?!?!?!

My MacBook recently starting acting funny.
Two days ago, I'm using it and it just completely shut off. I pressed the power button to turn it on again, I heard the startup chime, then I heard a "click" and it shut off again (no it wasn't the CD drive). This happened like 10 times but started up fine when I plugged it back into the power adapter.
Today, I turned it on and took like 7 minutes for it to boot. Then it showed "Safe Boot" at the login screen. I never pressed anything while booting so how did it boot to "Safe Boot?" So I logged in and I noticed the following:
1) AirPort is gone... It doesn't show in the menu bar or in the Network option in System Preferences.
2) No sound! The volume adjuster in the menu bar is gone AND the volume buttons on the keyboad do not work. I went to the Sound tab in System Preferences and it says "No Output Devices Found" and "No Input Devices Found."
3) The backlight buttons do not work either. If I press it, it just show that it is on the lowest setting and won't move.
Also, My MacBook shut off by itself once today.
I took screenshots but I don't know how to add them to this message so if someone tells me how, I can add screenshots of what is happening.
Anyways, someone please help me with these issues! I have invested a lot in my MacBook and I don't want it to have tons of problems like my iBook did.

Could be your safe mode prevent your device to run, since it boot using the very minimum driver to eliminate and provide more conflict.
From what I read you have an inconsistent battery, and it just shut you off and won't turn back on since it doesn't have anymore juice in it.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86284
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
Also try to repair permission using your installer disk and repair both disk and permission.
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When I edit photo's in Iphoto on my ipad2, it decreases the resolution. Why does this happen and does this also happen on a macbook air?

I have made pictures on high resolution with a Canon 100D camera, which means the pictures are 5-6 MB.
But when I edit them on my Ipad2 in Iphoto it decreases the size and resolution of the pictures to about 0.5MB
Does anyone know why Iphoto decreases the resolution of my pictures when I edit them?
And does this also happen with Iphoto on a macbook air?
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I have made pictures on high resolution with a Canon 100D camera, which means the pictures are 5-6 MB.
Are the photos raw photos or jpeg? When you edit raw photos in iPhoto on your iPad, the raw image will not be processed, only the embedded jpeg. That will reduce the resolution of the image considerably.
But when I edit them on my Ipad2 in Iphoto it decreases the size and resolution of the pictures to about 0.5MB
How do you save he edited version after editing? That will determine, if the image will be scaled down,
For a full-resolution edit you need to share the edited photo to the Camera Roll,
see this help page: Edit a photo
If you edit a photo in the iPhoto Camera Roll album, the edited photo automatically appears in the Camera Roll on your iOS device, at the resolution of your device. If you want a full-resolution version of the edited photo sent to the Camera Roll, tap and tap Camera Roll. The full-resolution photo appears in the Camera Roll, and is transferred to your computer when you sync the Camera Roll with your computer.
And does this also happen with Iphoto on a macbook air?
iPhoto on a Mac has a lossless workflow. iPhoto will always store the original image file that you imported and compute an edited version from this stored original. The quality of the photo you will see outside iPhoto will depend on the methode you use for sharing. You can export at the original size or scaled down, depending on the purpose you want teh photo for, small for email and web presentation, full versions for printing, for example.

What is "other" on my macbook air

I have a Macbook Air and the "other" is 50GB on my 120GB drive. What is "other" and why would it be so big?

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About “Other”:
    http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
Try these steps.
1. Start up in Safe Mode
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
2. Empty Trash.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677
3. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
    Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
    Select "Library" from the dropdown.
    Library > Mail > V2 > Mailboxes
    Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
    Empty Trash. Restart.
4. Repair Disk
    Steps 1 through 7
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
5. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
   http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878
6. Re-index Macintosh HD
   System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
   http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409

What keyboard comes with a MacBook Air?

I am buying a MacBook Air (2012 version) of Amazon.co.uk and it does not state on it what keyboard it comes with, I realise since it is .co.UK it will probably come with a British keyboard however I have seen pictures on google images with a £ sign on the keyboard however on the apple store it is just a $, so I was wondering does it just come with a $ sign on the keyboard even if you buy it in the UK?

I'm going to ask the hosts to move this to the macbook forum since you're more likely to get answers there than in the iPad one.

What OS would a new Macbook Air come with if I buy one now?

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I am thinking of buying an MBA. Some preliminary research suggests negative reviews about the latest OS Yosemite. Regardless of whether such reviews are accurate or not, I wonder what OS will a new MBA come with, if I buy one now (or over the next few weeks)?
Thanks.

You can try, but probably not. Note that, since no new model of MacBook Air has come out since the release of Yosemite, even if it ships with Yosemite, it should be capable of running Mavericks. Mavericks is no longer available in the App Store, but you can contact the App Store support http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/contact/ and ask for a download code. If you've previously downloaded it on another Mac, it should be in the purchases section in the App Store.

What software is included on macbook air

Is there any word processing or spreadsheet software included with the MacBook Air?

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/built-in-apps.html
I don't see any word processing except for very basic text editing. In addition to all the commercial software out there you can find a number of free ones such as Open/Neo Office, and Bean.

Mid-2013 Macbook Air: question about the battery life

First of all, I'm sorry if these questions have been already asked, I've looked around and I've seen some answers, but none that fit my specific case.
I have had this computer since December (Macbook Air, 13'', Mid-2013), I've been using it for a month now. At the beginning, I used to use it until my battery was low (between 10 and 20%) and then charge it. Then I learnt that it's better to keep it plugged as much as possible (I have read this in other discussions and on the Apple page). The problem is that my battery is no longer a 100% of its capacity according to Cococnut Battery. It started with 99%, then back to 100%, then 98, 97... and now it varies from 97 to 98 (right now it says that my computer's current capacity is 6948 mAH). I don't know if this is normal, or if this is caused by the use I used to give to my macbook air at the beginning or by any other thing. I also have 19 loadcycles already. Besides, I have noticed that sometimes it jumps form 100% to 99% of battery pretty fast when I don't have it plugged, and I'm not sure if that happened before.
This is my first time dealing with a macbook and I don't know how these things are supposed to work, and I'm worried my battery might have any kind of problem and that's why itdoesn't have full capacity anymore, since I've been using it for only a month.
Also, sometimes it takes a little while to shut down. It usually takes 2 seconds, but sometimes it takes longer, maybe 20 seconds (first the screen turn white, then the loading icon appears and then it finally shuts down). Is this normal too for macbook airs?
Thanks for the help!

Those are only averages, for purposes of the battery 97 98 99 and 100 are the 'same thing'........theyre all estimates.
Normal on shut down, sometimes you can see a few seconds, sometimes 10, 15 seconds shut down.....depends on what and HOW much its shutting down before poweroff.   Normal.
ON BATTERY USE:
Keep it plugged in when near a socket so you keep the charging cycles down on your LiPo (lithium polymer) cells / battery, but not plugged in all the time. When not being used for several hours, turn it off.
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
"Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time."
General rule to remember of Lithium batteries is:
Never drain them LOW & dont always/often store them HIGH
While cycle count is commonly seen to be the “miles” on your Lithium Ion pack cell in your Macbook, which they are, this distinction is not a fine line at all, and it is a big misconception to “count charge cycles”
*A person who has, for example, 300 charge cycles on their battery and is recharging at say 50-60% remaining of a 100% charge has better battery usage and care than another person who has 300 charge cycles at say 15% remaining on a 100% charge.
DoD (depth of discharge) is far more important on the wear and tear on your Macbook battery than any mere charge cycle count. *There is no set “mile” or wear from a charge cycle in general OR in specific.    As such, contrary to popular conception, counting cycles is not conclusive whatsoever, rather the amount of deep DoD on an averaged scale of its use and charging conditions.
                          (as a very rough analogy would be 20,000 hard miles put on a car vs. 80,000 good miles being something similar)
*Contrary to some myths out there, there is protection circuitry in your Macbook and therefore you cannot overcharge it when plugged in and already fully charged
*However if you don’t plan on using it for a few hours, turn it OFF (plugged in or otherwise) ..*You don’t want your Macbook both always plugged in AND in sleep mode       (When portable devices are charging and in the on or sleep position, the current that is drawn through the device is called the parasitic load and will alter the dynamics of charge cycle. Battery manufacturers advise against parasitic loading because it induces mini-cycles.)
Keeping batteries connected to a charger ensures that periodic "top-ups" do very minor but continuous damage to individual cells, hence Apples recommendation above:   “Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time”, …this is because “Li-ion degrades fastest at high state-of-charge”.
                    This is also the same reason new Apple notebooks are packaged with 50% charges and not 100%.
LiPo (lithium polymer, same as in your Macbook) batteries do not need conditioning. However...
A lot of battery experts call the use of Lithium cells the "80% Rule" ...meaning use 80% of the charge or so, then recharge them for longer overall life.
Never let your Macbook go into shutdown and safe mode from loss of power, you can corrupt files that way, and the batteries do not like it.
The only quantified abuse seen to Lithium cells are instances when often the cells are repeatedly drained very low…. key word being "often"
Contrary to what some might say, Lithium batteries have an "ideal" break in period. First ten cycles or so, don't discharge down past 40% of the battery's capacity. Same way you don’t take a new car out and speed and rev the engine hard first 100 or so miles.
Proper treatment is still important. Just because LiPo batteries don’t need conditioning in general, does NOT mean they dont have an ideal use / recharge environment. Anything can be abused even if it doesn’t need conditioning.
From Apple on batteries:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446
http://www.apple.com/batteries/
Storing your MacBook
If you are going to store your MacBook away for an extended period of time, keep it in a cool location (room temperature roughly 22° C or about 72° F). Make certain you have at least a 50% charge on the internal battery of your Macbook if you plan on storing it away for a few months; recharge your battery to 50% or so every six months roughly if being stored away. If you live in a humid environment, keep your Macbook stored in its zippered case to prevent infiltration of humidity on the internals of your Macbook which could lead to corrosion.
Considerations:
Your battery is subject to chemical aging even if not in use. A Lithium battery is aging as soon as its made, regardless.
In a perfect (although impractical) situation, your lithium battery is best idealized swinging back and forth between 20 and 85% SOC (state of charge) roughly.
Further still how you discharge the battery is far more important than how it is either charged or stored short term, and more important long term that cycle counts.
Ultimately counting charge cycles is of little importance. Abuse in discharging (foremost), charging, and storing the battery and how it affects battery chemistry is important and not the ‘odometer’ reading, or cycle counts on the battery.
Everything boils down to battery chemistry long term, and not an arbitrary number, or cycle count.
Keep your macbook plugged in when near a socket since in the near end of long-term life, this is beneficial to the battery.
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New MacBook Air: questions about how to network (AirPlay, Time Capsule, Apple TV, etc)

Hi guys,
I am the new owner of a MacBook Air 13" and I've decided to upgrade my home network. Can one of you please help me identify the additional products I need to purchase in order to achieve my desired goals?
Here is what I want to do:
* I want to have a large, local, networked hard disk where I can store thousands of photos (iPhoto library) - looks like time capsule or possibly Airport Extreme would be good here
* I want to access this iPhoto library from my MBA, MBP, and iPad 2. The photos will not be stored locally on any of these devices. Is this possible, and would I experience significant slowness due to this setup? Basically i want a local cloud with massive storage.
* I could also be tempted to store my iPhoto library in Dropbox but I wonder if the laptops etc would support this? Also this much storage could get pricey.
* I would like to stream music from services like Pandora and Spotify to my home theater system, which has all kinds of optical / coponent connections (Denon receiver). Ideally I'd like to do this from any of my devices including iPad and even iPhone. I do not use iTunes.
* I would like to stream content from my devices to my TV including photos and videos, as well as basic mirroring functionality. Given I currently stream Netflix etc through Xbox this is the least important of all my desires. My tv has things like hdmi connections.
So guys do you think I can do this? Particularly the iPhoto part. Im really looking for a seamless experience in accessing my photos from any laptop.
Any tips on exactly what products I need to buy would be greatly appreciated.

Pappasbike, welcome to the discussions!
"Now my confusion comes from reading about setting the TC in bridge mode."
"The TC is only a foot or two way from the AEBS"
Last item first....if the TC is this close, it might make more sense to connect the two devices together with an ethernet cable. (Always use ethernet connections when possible for faster speeds and more reliable connections.) You would connect one end of the ethernet cable to one of the LAN ports on the Extreme and the other to the WAN port on the Time Capsule.
Bridge Mode....You only want one router doing DHCP and NAT and that is being done by the Extreme according to your post. Since the Time Capsule is also a router, you would want to configure it in Bridge Mode so that you will avoid IP conflicts and double NAT errors on your network. Do this as follows:
Open Airport Utility and click on Manual Setup for the Time Capsule.
Click on the Internet icon at the top of the pane.
Now look for the "Connection Sharing" setting near the bottom of the pane. Select "Off (Bridge Mode)
Click Update to save your new settings.

My MacBook Air is boiling within 3 minutes of run

Hi,
I bought my MacBook Air around end of 2010.
And recently I started experiencing overheating within 10 minutes of run by using common softwares and web browsing.
Actually sometimes I've Chrome or Firefox with over 200 tabs (with flash blocker) or compiling something in the meantime, but this is how I using a Mac in a standard way (I'm a software developer).
Now I've change my place from UK to the Switzerland, where is much hotter (30 degress), but I don't this is the case.
In following screenshot you can see the temperature from Temperature Monitor at 18.43.56 (I just turn it on and run ) and 3 minutes later at 18.46.31.
The only process was installing some software which includes some compiling, but even that it should be not so critical (90 degrees for CPU?).
P.S. I know how to use Activity Monitor and Terminal to kill the processes which I don't use, so I monitor it constantly.
I started to use ice bag (from the freezer), which helps until I'll decide to some cooling pad, but I never need that.
So my question is, what's wrong?
I was reading about SMC reset here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
but I don't believe it'll help.
I've experienced yesterday two OSX crashes, at least one per week is a standard, I think it's because of overheating.
Here is another stats from my previous session (it's normal?):
before desparately I decided to put my laptop to the fridge after the OSX crash, so I could work afterwards for the next half an hour (I know that's the bad approach, sorry).
I read already thousands of similar problem on the internet, so I assuming I'm not only the one.
Thanks for any advises.
Environment:
My kernel:
Darwin kenorbs-MacBook-Air.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
I've started using ceramic kitchen table for my table, it kind of works only when I don't do nothing on my laptop, so not really helps.
Summary:
Any ideas apart of reinstalling everything from scratch? It's time to buy a new MacBook?
Is there any advanced software or command that will give more information about the following problems?

Now it's not so extremely hot, but it's very slow, almost as Pentium 200. Even now I'm typing this post, sometimes I've to wait 0,5-1sec to see the letters appearing. When I was opening this page, I've seen some widgets were rendering. Some of the pages loading endless. When typing some commands, I've to wait few seconds until they'll terminate using Control-C. When I change the application using CMD-Tab, I've to wait 1-2 seconds untill I could use it, it appears, mouse moving, but I can't click anything (probably swap). When I'm scrolling, it's freezing every few seconds. My load average is around 2-3. Basically I can't work on my laptop anymore. I've it on cold flat surface with power supply connected. Every day or few days I'm sending to you crashes.
My system is up-to-date. I don't want Lion for now, until my laptop will work, I heard it's even slower and worse (as even the post above as example).
Here are some Terminal logs:
new-host-2:~ kenorb$ sudo dmesg | tailEIR is supported.SSP is supported.en0: 802.11d country code set to 'FR'.en0: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140Auth result for: c0:3f:0e:51:ef:c0 No AckAuth result for: c0:3f:0e:51:ef:c0 MAC AUTH succeededAirPort: Link Up on en0AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en0BetterTouchTool (map: 0x8805000) triggered DYLD shared region unnest for map: 0x8805000, region 0x7fff88000000->0x7fff88200000. While not abnormal for debuggers, this increases system memory footprint until the target exits.Warning: audit space low (< 5% free)on audit log file-systemnew-host-2:~ kenorb$ uname -aDarwin kenorbs-MacBook-Air.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 When running iotop, it's showing me lots of error:dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 5 (ID 19517: io:mach_kernel:buf_strategy:start): illegal operation in action #3 at DIF offset 0dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 5 (ID 19517: io:mach_kernel:buf_strategy:start): illegal operation in action #3 at DIF offset 0
Maybe because it's not optimized for Mac;p
new-host-2:~ kenorb$ sudo tail /var/log/secure.logAug 1 20:36:13 kenorbs-MacBook-Air nobody[5520]: audit warning: soft /var/auditAug 1 20:36:13 kenorbs-MacBook-Air nobody[5519]: audit warning: allsoftAug 1 20:36:13 kenorbs-MacBook-Air nobody[5522]: audit warning: closefile /var/audit/20120801000912.20120801183613Aug 1 21:40:00 kenorbs-MacBook-Air loginwindow[41]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Failed to determine Kerberos principal name.Aug 1 21:40:00 kenorbs-MacBook-Air nobody[5777]: audit warning: soft /var/auditAug 1 21:40:00 kenorbs-MacBook-Air nobody[5778]: audit warning: allsoftAug 1 21:40:00 kenorbs-MacBook-Air nobody[5779]: audit warning: closefile /var/audit/20120801183613.20120801194000Aug 1 23:45:07 kenorbs-MacBook-Air nobody[15967]: audit warning: soft /var/auditAug 1 23:45:07 kenorbs-MacBook-Air nobody[15969]: audit warning: allsoftAug 1 23:45:07 kenorbs-MacBook-Air nobody[15968]: audit warning: closefile /var/audit/20120801194000.20120801214507 new-host-2:~ kenorb$ sudo tail /var/log/system.logAug 1 23:53:35 kenorbs-MacBook-Air com.cleverfiles.cfbackd[16137]: partition offset c805000Aug 1 23:53:35 kenorbs-MacBook-Air com.apple.launchd[1] (com.cleverfiles.cfbackd[16137]): Job appears to have crashed: Floating point exceptionAug 1 23:53:35 kenorbs-MacBook-Air com.apple.launchd[1] (com.cleverfiles.cfbackd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 secondsAug 1 23:53:35 kenorbs-MacBook-Air com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[16122]: 2012-08-01 23:53:35.601 ReportCrash[16122:3d2f] Saved crash report for cfbackd[16137] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfbackd_2012-08-01-235335_localhost.crashAug 1 23:53:45 kenorbs-MacBook-Air com.cleverfiles.cfbackd[16138]: partition offset c805000Aug 1 23:53:45 kenorbs-MacBook-Air com.apple.launchd[1] (com.cleverfiles.cfbackd[16138]): Job appears to have crashed: Floating point exceptionAug 1 23:53:45 kenorbs-MacBook-Air com.apple.launchd[1] (com.cleverfiles.cfbackd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 secondsAug 1 23:53:45 kenorbs-MacBook-Air com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[16122]: 2012-08-01 23:53:45.751 ReportCrash[16122:402b] Saved crash report for cfbackd[16138] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfbackd_2012-08-01-235345_localhost.crashAug 1 23:53:46 kenorbs-MacBook-Air sudo[16139]: kenorb : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/kenorb ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/tail /var/log/system.logAug 1 23:53:50 kenorbs-MacBook-Air sudo[16140]: kenorb : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/kenorb ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/tail /var/log/system.log
I've more than 1000 files of different kind of local apps crashes and 73 OSX crashes:
new-host-2:Logs kenorb$ find . | lessnew-host-2:Logs kenorb$ pwd/Users/kenorb/Library/Logsnew-host-2:Logs kenorb$ find . -name \*crash\* | wc -l 1168new-host-2:CrashReporter kenorb$ pwd/Library/Logs/CrashReporternew-host-2:CrashReporter kenorb$ find . | wc -l 73new-host-2:CrashReporter kenorb$ find . | xargs. ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-233811_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-233821_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-233831_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-233841_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-233851_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-233901_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-233911_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-233922_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-233932_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-233942_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-233952_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-234002_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-234012_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-234022_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-234032_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-234042_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-234053_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-234103_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-234113_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-07-24-234123_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220455_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220505_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220515_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220525_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220536_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220546_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220556_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220606_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220616_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220627_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220637_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220647_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220657_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220708_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220718_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220728_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220738_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-01-220749_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000321_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000331_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000341_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000351_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000401_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000412_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000422_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000432_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000442_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000452_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000503_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000513_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000523_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000533_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000543_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000554_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000604_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000614_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000624_localhost.crash ./cfbackd_2012-08-02-000634_localhost.crash ./fc-cache_2012-07-28-130739-1_localhost.crash ./fc-cache_2012-07-28-130739_localhost.crash ./gconftool-2_2012-07-28-143228-1_localhost.crash ./gconftool-2_2012-07-28-143228_localhost.crash ./mdworker_2012-07-29-180410_localhost.crash ./mdworker_2012-07-29-180417_localhost.crash ./mdworker_2012-07-29-180512_localhost.crash ./mdworker_2012-07-29-180524_localhost.crash ./mdworker_2012-07-29-234257_localhost.crash ./mdworker_2012-07-29-234302_localhost.crash ./mdworker_2012-07-29-234309_localhost.crash ./mdworker_2012-07-29-234315_localhost.crash ./xprobe_3dnow_2012-07-29-032200_localhost.crash ./xprobe_gas_x8632_2012-07-29-032158_localhost.crash
I've 3 kernel panic crashes:
new-host-2:Logs kenorb$ find . -name \*panic\*./DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2012-07-28-002413_kenorbs-MacBook-Air.panic./DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2012-07-29-233515_kenorbs-MacBook-Air.panic./DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2012-07-31-225733_kenorbs-MacBook-Air.panic
Like I said, it crashes every day, I could have more, but probably are removed, I don't know why.
Here are some few screenshots:
Activity Monitor:
top:
iotop:

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