Carl Sieber

Q: Kernel panics on Mountain Lion are normal?

I made the mistake of upgrading my Mac Pro to Mountain Lion. Since then, I've been plagued by several nasty issues. They are:

 

 

  • 4 to 5 kernel panics per day now on average. In the previous 4 years of owning this machine, I'd only seen one total before Mountain Lion.
  • Preferences are not being retained when saved. This is especially maddening in Mail where I have to correct a mail setting every single time it launches (or restarts from a hard freeze/kernel panic)
  • Whenever a kernel panic happens, the contents of my two monitors are swapped. What is supposed to display on the left display jumps to the right display and the contents of the right display move to the left display. This includes menubar, desktop images and my geektool scripts.
  • While not technically a bug, I feel completely mislead by Apple regarding Airplay capabilities. I upgraded solely for this one feature only to learn that my 8-core, 12Gb of RAM, Dual Video Cards and SSD Raid is not sufficient to utilize this feature. This is incredibly dishonest marketing on Apple's part.

 

Any suggestions on how to proceed? I'm leaning towards reverting back to Lion and askin

Posted on Aug 10, 2012 1:05 PM

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  • by blueruck,

    blueruck blueruck Sep 13, 2012 12:32 PM in response to blueruck
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    Sep 13, 2012 12:32 PM in response to blueruck

    It has been roughly 36 hrs since I uninstalled HMA and zero kernal panics.

  • by Carl Sieber,

    Carl Sieber Carl Sieber Sep 19, 2012 9:33 PM in response to Carl Sieber
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    Sep 19, 2012 9:33 PM in response to Carl Sieber

    So I updated to 10.8.2 and encountered my first kernel panic after updating just a few minutes ago. The log showed the exact same issue as before... Aparently the NVidia driver has not been updated yet. I'm still waiting for a solution.

  • by Urbansledger,

    Urbansledger Urbansledger Sep 20, 2012 12:49 PM in response to Carl Sieber
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    Sep 20, 2012 12:49 PM in response to Carl Sieber

    I have been having the same problem. I have a MBP 13' mid 2009, I upgraded to 8GB of RAM (which has passed all tests and works fine with my HDD), I installed an OCZ Agility 3 SSD (which worked fine with Lion), I installed Mountain Lion on it about two weeks ago and have been getting increasing kernel panics ever since.

     

    This is almost certainly graphics related - as mentioned previously by other posters. I discussed at length the SSD with OCZ to see if they have any problems with compatibility but they said they have tested it extensively with ML and have never had a problem.

     

    To test the graphics theory I uninstalled Flash and Silverlight (as all kernels happen whilst watching video) and since I did that, about 48 hours ago I have not had any panics. Obviously not ideal but as the previous guy mentioned I might wait until the new driver is released before reinstalling Flash and Silverlight.

     

    Any other advice is welcome - I have been trying everything!

  • by William Kucharski,

    William Kucharski William Kucharski Sep 20, 2012 4:15 PM in response to Urbansledger
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    Sep 20, 2012 4:15 PM in response to Urbansledger

    For those experiencing this issue, I can't overstate the importance of making sure you have a case logged with AppleCare about it, as squeaky wheels do determine Engineering effort directed at an issue.

  • by blueruck,

    blueruck blueruck Sep 20, 2012 6:54 PM in response to blueruck
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    Sep 20, 2012 6:54 PM in response to blueruck

    My issue turned out to be HMA had linked to a down level version of tun tap - make sure you use the 2011 verson and not the 2009 version

  • by the-real-dionysus,

    the-real-dionysus the-real-dionysus Sep 22, 2012 9:27 AM in response to Carl Sieber
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    Sep 22, 2012 9:27 AM in response to Carl Sieber

    @Carl Take a look at this, This driver was updated by on the 10th of september and that was after you recieved notice from Nvidia. Let me knowm what transpires http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-304.00.00f20-driver.html

     

    It it dosen/t show up go to Nvidia's website and go to drivers, 100 series and GT 120 and you will see a updated driver there. Let me know if it fixes your problem.

  • by Carl Sieber,

    Carl Sieber Carl Sieber Sep 22, 2012 10:25 AM in response to the-real-dionysus
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    Sep 22, 2012 10:25 AM in response to the-real-dionysus

    Great catch but unfortunately that driver is for retail cards only. The installer wouldn't let the installation proceed when I tried on my machine. I think I'm still stuck waiting for Apple to update their OEM drivers.

     

    Thank you though. 

  • by the-real-dionysus,

    the-real-dionysus the-real-dionysus Sep 22, 2012 11:21 AM in response to Carl Sieber
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    Sep 22, 2012 11:21 AM in response to Carl Sieber

    **** It, I'm suffering the same issue as you! Thought maybe we got lucky! Sorry Carl

  • by Urbansledger,

    Urbansledger Urbansledger Sep 22, 2012 11:52 AM in response to the-real-dionysus
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    Sep 22, 2012 11:52 AM in response to the-real-dionysus

    I uninstalled Flash and Silverlight, clean reinstall of Mountain Lion, reset PRAM. I now just use chrome (with built in flash and silverlight), I did a few scans with Onyx which showed 3 syntax errors with blank scripts - I deleted these and so far no kernel pancis.

     

    There is a still a problem with graphics though - Tried playing a bit of GTA (which would normally produce a kernel panic) and it said there was a fault and I needed to debug - but it did not kernel panic, GTA just force quit.

     

    So it appears Ive prevented the kernel attacks but not quite solved the graphics problem - looks like I'll join the back of the queue and wait for that update.

  • by Urbansledger,

    Urbansledger Urbansledger Sep 22, 2012 11:54 AM in response to Urbansledger
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    Sep 22, 2012 11:54 AM in response to Urbansledger

    Forgot to mention all video now plays fine with no screen tearing.

     

    Not sure if anyone had this problem in the first place? but all of the above seemed to sort it out for me.

  • by atomic!,

    atomic! atomic! Sep 23, 2012 9:44 AM in response to Carl Sieber
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    Sep 23, 2012 9:44 AM in response to Carl Sieber

    New kind of Nvidia Driver related crash today (updated to 10.8.2 on my MacPro 4,1 today):

     

    Sun Sep 23 15:14:46 2012

    panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8018651c07): "IOGMD: not wired for the IODMACommand"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/iokit/Kernel/IOMemoryDescriptor.c pp:1424"

    Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address

    0xffffff81ebb1b500 : 0xffffff801821d626

    0xffffff81ebb1b570 : 0xffffff8018651c07

    0xffffff81ebb1b600 : 0xffffff801864c9de

    0xffffff81ebb1b6b0 : 0xffffff801864d60a

    0xffffff81ebb1b6d0 : 0xffffff7f98925a44

    0xffffff81ebb1b740 : 0xffffff7f9898fd85

    0xffffff81ebb1b790 : 0xffffff7f9898feaf

    0xffffff81ebb1b7e0 : 0xffffff7f98975515

    0xffffff81ebb1b860 : 0xffffff7f98973815

    0xffffff81ebb1b8a0 : 0xffffff7f98962083

    0xffffff81ebb1b950 : 0xffffff7f9898c177

    0xffffff81ebb1bb40 : 0xffffff7f9898d1d8

    0xffffff81ebb1bc10 : 0xffffff7f99b8d419

    0xffffff81ebb1bd50 : 0xffffff7f99b8cefe

    0xffffff81ebb1bd60 : 0xffffff7f99b64cfb

    0xffffff81ebb1bd70 : 0xffffff7f99b3b580

    0xffffff81ebb1bdb0 : 0xffffff7f99b39dc2

    0xffffff81ebb1bde0 : 0xffffff7f99b3deef

    0xffffff81ebb1be00 : 0xffffff7f997712a4

    0xffffff81ebb1be20 : 0xffffff7f99771237

    0xffffff81ebb1be50 : 0xffffff7f99b558ac

    0xffffff81ebb1be80 : 0xffffff7f99b3a506

    0xffffff81ebb1bed0 : 0xffffff7f99b384c7

    0xffffff81ebb1bef0 : 0xffffff80186472a8

    0xffffff81ebb1bf30 : 0xffffff8018645daa

    0xffffff81ebb1bf80 : 0xffffff8018645ed9

    0xffffff81ebb1bfb0 : 0xffffff80182b26b7

          Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

             com.apple.iokit.IOSurface(86.0.3)[578CEAAD-1465-3B29-B34F-09586288ED88]@0xffffff7f9976d000->0xffffff7f997 7efff

            com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f9891f000->0xffffff7f98c21f ff

                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.1)[9901C237-547C-3B52-99DE-C4870A19E2B5]@0xffff ff7f9888d000

                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f9890b000

                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f988c8000

             com.apple.GeForce(8.0)[2E56ED9A-D848-3795-9E52-56BABDC9000C]@0xffffff7f99b34000->0xffffff7f99bf6f ff

                dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f9891f000

                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f9890b000

                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.1)[9901C237-547C-3B52-99DE-C4870A19E2B5]@0xffff ff7f9888d000

                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f988c8000

  • by JinxBlinxTix,

    JinxBlinxTix JinxBlinxTix Sep 24, 2012 5:57 AM in response to blueruck
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    Sep 24, 2012 5:57 AM in response to blueruck

    @ blueruck  Could You please explain what you mean by Nam. I am not a core programmer but I do need to fix this problem so I can actually work again. My problem happens with video editing is beyond annoying and my job is in complete state of jeapordy because of this. Help??!!

  • by JinxBlinxTix,

    JinxBlinxTix JinxBlinxTix Sep 24, 2012 5:43 AM in response to JinxBlinxTix
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    Sep 24, 2012 5:43 AM in response to JinxBlinxTix

    It is definitely a problem with people who have got a mid-2009 13 inch MacBook Pro

  • by JinxBlinxTix,

    JinxBlinxTix JinxBlinxTix Sep 24, 2012 5:55 AM in response to atomic!
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    Sep 24, 2012 5:55 AM in response to atomic!

    This is most excellent news and I am downloading the driver now. This will really save my business.

        

     

     

    No such luck! I downloaded from the link above, tried to install it, and It refused giving me the lame message pasted below...

     

         No driver update is needed for this system. This system already has drivers which support NVIDIA GeForce and Quadro Mac OS X edition cards.

  • by JinxBlinxTix,

    JinxBlinxTix JinxBlinxTix Sep 24, 2012 6:01 AM in response to Carl Sieber
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    Sep 24, 2012 6:01 AM in response to Carl Sieber

     

    @ blueruck  Could You please explain what you mean by "HMA had linked to a down level version of tun tap"?? How do I fix this? I am not a programmer but I do need to fix this problem so I can actually work again. My problem happens with video editing and it's beyond annoying. My job is in complete state of jeapordy because of this. Help??!!

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