ITunes :: It Crashes System After Launch?
Feb 10, 2012
For the last several days my iMac will freeze a few minutes after launching, then proceed to freeze my entire iMac, forcing a hard reboot. I ran Activity Monitor when launching iTunes and noticed that before the trouble started simply mousing around or scrolling could take up 25% of my processor. Then it would jump up to 80-105% then it would fall to 0% and the system would freeze. If I then immediately used 'Force Quit Applications' I could force-quit iTunes... but only after the system itself had frozen for 10-30 seconds before finally giving me the pop-up asking to make sure I wanted to force-quit. (iTunes Helper never seemed to take any processor power.) iTunes 10 is definitely the culprit.Â
My setup: 2007 Core2Duo iMac 4Gb RAM, iTunes with 29,000 songs running 10.6.8 with latest updates. I have 185Gb left on my 750Gb drive. I've run Onyx to clear out all caches, and I've even trashed iTunes and downloaded a fresh copy from Apple and reinstalled.Â
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iMac 24", Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jul 16, 2010
Before anyone says anything: Yes, I did do my research with MRGoogle before creating this thread. Most of the questions people had ever never answered (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=791337) or the posts where from 2+ years ago and not that relevant to the newer releases of iTunes.
Anyway, I decided to do a bit of song searching on iTunes today. I have a bunch of songs from the DDR series that I wanted to find the original, full versions of. So I opened up iTunes (which took about 30 seconds to load, mouse cursor pinwheeling the entire time) and opened up a playlist of said songs in a separate window. In the main window I opened up the iTunes store and started my search. To pass the time, I played the playlist in the background while switch between the two windows to check song tiles, artist names, and the like. While searching for songs, iTunes would randomly start pinwheeling for ~5 seconds, music still playing in the background. The same thing happened when I tired to change to a different song in the playlist. I tried to open TextEdit so I could copy down the songs I couldn't find in the iTunes store and the system pinwheeled yet again. It 5+ seconds to open TextEdit. Even when I'm running Firefox with multiple tabs and windows open, it opens instantly.
I know my machine is a bit old (Early 2008 MBP 2.4 C2D) but its not ancient. I'm running 4GB for crying out loud. I've had similar issues in the past that got so bad I stopped using iTunes all together for awhile. I've tried installing iTunes, uninstalling iTunes, even going so far as to remove most of the iTunes-related fumes from my Library. Nothing seems to help.
I'm at a loss to why this is happening. Originally I thought it was a corrupt library or something, but I've rebuilt my library and it was a temporary fix. Anyone here have ideas about what I can do?
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well my computer has been crashing a lot recently (i noticed it seems to be mostly while safari and itunes are running at the same time but i have no idea if this is the cause of the problem or just a coincidence). I read one thing that told me to check my system logs, so i did and the only thing that i found weird that was around the time i crashed was this, but i have no idea what it means.
May 25 20:18:39 (my-name's)-computer [0x0-0xa00a0].com.apple.Safari[2456]: Number of lights added exceeds maximum! May 25 20:20:29: --- last message repeated 28 times ---
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Here's the crash data: Â Process:Â Â Â Â Safari [31040]Path:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â /Applications/Internet/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/SafariIdentifier:Â com.apple.SafariVersion:Â Â Â Â 5.1.2 (6534.52.7)Build Info:Â WebBrowser-75345207~2Code Type:Â Â X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:Â launchd [164]Â Date/Time:Â Â 2012-03-13 09:02:45.727 -0400OS Version:Â Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50)
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Process:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Safari [2662]
Path:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier:Â Â Â Â Â com.apple.Safari
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Process:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â WebProcess [1238]
Path:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/WebKit2.framework/WebProcess.app/Contents/Mac OS/WebProcess
Identifier:Â Â Â Â Â com.apple.WebProcess
Version:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 7534.56 (7534.56.5)
Build Info:Â Â Â Â Â WebKit2-7534056005000000~1
Code Type:Â Â Â Â Â Â X86-64 (Native)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Anonymous UUID: 01A96B0F-D497-443A-8E19-9111DF3604EE
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Quad 2.66 12GB Ram 4T blah blah
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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