OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Intermittent Crashes No Clues In Console
Mar 27, 2012
Or at least I can't find any clues other than repeated attempts to sign-in to a discontinued MobilMe account.The list of actions taken so far:Â Clean install and migrated user files from Time Machine back up.Installed OS10.6.8 over current OSRepair permissions from disk, zapped pram and reset smc.Ran Extended Apple Hardware Test, Drive Genius Scan Test, 6 loops of Rember (Memtest) - all passedRan Onyx Maintanance and Clean.Searched and deleted old PPC and unused Intel applications and driversUpdated current apps and drivers.Removing all connected hardware except power and ethernet cable did not stop crash.One mistake was to delete Bonjour in Safari but I'm not sure what effect that may have had. [code]
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MacBook Pro 2.53Ghz, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 8 GB Ram
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Mar 10, 2012
I have recently installed new RAM and an SSD in my late 2009 MacBook Pro, running OS X 10.6.8, and it now frequently hangs when I try to start it up. Here are details:Â
In recent weeks I noticed signs that seemed to point to a failing hard drive. I took the machine to a Genius Bar. The genius tried Disk Utility and a quick diagnostic and could not reproduce an error, but he noted many, many I/O errors recorded in a log file. Â
He said I probably had a failing disk, but it might be a cable issue. He gave me two options: leave the machine with Apple overnight to run diagnostics and perhaps repair if the problem was confirmed, or just take a chance and replace the drive myself, for less money and less downtime. Â
I went to a local computer store, and the salesman there noted that I was using relatively little disk space. He suggested that I swap my failing 160 G disk for a smaller, 120G solid-state drive, which happened to be on sale. I agreed and also bought some new RAM. Â
I installed the drive and RAM, partitioned the disk (with HFS journaling), and restored my files with Time Machine. For that day and the next, everything worked perfectly. Â
The second day after the installation, the system hung while starting up. The Apple logo appeared, the gray spinner appeared, and it just spun. I tried resetting PRAM. I tried safe restart. I started up from the install disk and ran Disk Utility: no problems found. I repaired permissions. I took out the new RAM and put back the old. In some cases after trying these steps, the system booted fine — once. In others, it would not boot the first time, but would boot on the second or third attempt. I reinstalled OS X and updated software. The problem persisted. I installed some freeware to enable trimming the new disk. No better. Â
I have booted many times in verbose mode. During the unsuccessful boots, there is usually a message "Bug: launchctl.c: 3557 (23930):6 ioctl(S6, SIO CAIFADOR_IN6, &ifra6) ! = -1". The next line is the command "fsck_hfs", and the machine hangs. Eventually it sometimes spits out "launchctl: please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisory.plist". If I let it go for a long time, I sometimes come back to find a long string of I/O error messages, to the effect that media was expect to be there but wasn’t. I think every time I have gotten the launchctl message, it has booted successfully on the next try. Â
During the successful boots in verbose mode, everything happens so quickly that it is hard to say what is going on, but I don’t think it is running fsck_hfs. If it boots successfully and I give it a heavy I/O task, like doing a virus scan, everything works fine. If I run Disk Utility off the installation disk, it says the disk appears to be OK. Â
I started the machine in single user mode and ran fsck manually. It gave me reports similar to running Disk Utility, and told me the disk appeared to be OK. It then gave me the prompt for a new command. I typed "exit". It responded "logout". And hung.Â
One last thing: I just tried a couple of times to restart with the Apple Hardware test. Despite holding down the D key, the test failed to load, and after a long pause, the machine attempted a normal start-up. Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Aug 29 09:49:07 MacPro Firewall[77]: Stealth Mode connection attempt to UDP 192.168.2.6:57065 from 68.87.73.242:53
That 68.87.73.242 address is my Comcast DNS server.
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Interval Since Last Panic Report:Â 4612905 sec
Panics Since Last Report:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1
Anonymous UUID:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â DF5DB39A-EF77-401C-9FF8-D08176D66693Â Â
Thu Mar 15 22:58:32 2012
panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff80002d1208): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f80d83827, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000000, CR3: 0x00000000360a1000, CR4: 0x0000000000040660
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2011 w/ new hard drive installed
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START:Sat Mar 31 08:40:24 2012panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff80002a7c2e): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0x80, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1699.24.23/osfmk/x86_64/pmap.c:2225Backtrace (CPU 3), Frame : Return Address0xffffff812a92b880 : 0xffffff8000220702 0xffffff812a92b900 :
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Process:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â smbd [2452]
Path:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â /usr/sbin/smbd
Identifier:Â Â Â Â Â smbd
Version:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ??? (???)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Will not power up with AC Power Sup
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Process: Disk Utility [52987]
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk
UtilityIdentifier: com.apple.
DiskUtilityVersion: 11.5.2 (298.4)
Build Info: DiskUtility-2980400~60
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
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MacBook Pro Core Duo 2 2.16 Mhz
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AdapterDeviceID: 0x2a02
AdapterVendorID: 0x8086
Add-ons: {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:7.0.1
BuildID: 20120420145725
CrashTime: 1338784690
EMCheckCompatibility: true .....
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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