In the 24 hours since I upgraded to 10.6.2 I have had #3 Kernel Panic reports asking me to shutdown and re-start the computer. I have verified the disk and permissions and it says it is O.K, but the problem persists. I have not installed anything else. the problem seems to occur when I put my computer to sleep and then try to use it again. Any ideas, help, guidance?
HI all I am using 17 inch Macbook pro 2.4 Ghz and it keeps crashing and kernel panics so frequently its almost unusable. This has only happened since the 10.6.2 upgrade which I applied through software update and then again manually after reading a post in this thread.
The hardware tests out fine using the hardware test utility on the original disks.
Disk utility repair permissions and disk tools pro both report no problems.
The only unusual thing is that since the update the fans seem to be working harder and are more noticeable.
When the panic occurs the screen flickers very fast and while the mouse pointer still moves the machine has locked up and the only way out is a forced restart.
I am not using the MS keyboard that some have mentioned. all I have running is a western digital external usb drive and a wireless mouse. the removal of either of these makes no difference.
I am trying to get my accounts done for the year end and the constant panics are driving me crazy.
If any one has any ideas I would be most grateful
crash dump report below:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 228164 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 7
Anonymous UUID: F0112D81-2406-431A-998D-91AE58A769C1
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
10C540
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov 3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F42388C8)
Azgar I had this exact panic this morning, dug in, tracked it down to the com.microsoft.driver.MicrosoftKeyboard 7.0.1 kext. I noticed you have the same above. I could actually recreate the panic by just holding down LEFT-SHFT + LEFT+CONTROL + LEFT Arrow key (which I use very often). This extension worked for 10.6.1 but no more after an upgrade to 10.6.2.
The fix was just uninstall (Utilities -> Microsoft Uninstaller). I'm running with the IntelliType 6.31 for now, it's missing a few things but at least it's functioning.
Although I have just removed it, I'm almost certain this is the cause. I upgraded to 7.0.1 when I was having the blue screen logout issues in 10.6.1. I use BBEdit to write code and make use of those key combinations excessively and several times a day was experiencing a kernel panic. I rely heavily on the special keys on the MS mouse but not the keyboard much, so I have just removed Intellitype altogether.
I'm having the same kernel panic. I won't bother posting the log right now since it's nearly identical to everyone else out there. Parallels, ciscoVPN, and Kaspersky (yeah I know somebody complained about AV software here but really in my field it's vital, and it does catch viruses residing on my mac and my clients macs and pcs, just not mac-specific viruses). One thing I did notice in this forum was I'm also having the problem while using rsync on an SMB share. The kernel panics only started happening when I took on this data migration project for a client of mine. My experience with these machines is quite extensive and I don't believe the problem lies in kexts as many KPs do. My suspicions are that either it's a bug in the filesystem/samba drivers or the kernel itself. If anyone's resolved this and it wasn't the MS-driver specific problem please update.
Another thing to note: ALL machines here with matching KP logs are MacBook Pros, it appears, just an observation.
After more kernel panics and watching this closely. I believe the problem is a bug in the Mac OS X 10.6.2 kernel. These kernel extensions are possibly triggering the bug and causing a KP. But even apple's own kernel extensions are triggering it also: com.apple.filesystems.smbfs com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver. I was looking up mutex's and spinlocks and both seem to be mainly kernel functions. I'm crossing my fingers that this is fixed in the next minor update 10.6.3, as it's causing me a major heading in my work.
It's possible that an actual locking bug exists inside the kernel.
But I'm curious as to why you feel that's a more likely scenario than a memory overlay from a kernel extension stomping one of the kernel's mutex/spinlock addresses. The kernel probably has a few orders of magnitude more QA time behind it than do the 3rd party kexts, and locking is a pretty foundational kernel facility.
I agree with you that the MacBook Pro representation (me too, btw) is odd/interesting, but I don't know enough about kext development to judge whether it's suspicious per se.
Hi:
I do want to join the discussion too, I am running a Mac Pro 1,1, 2.66 Dual-core Xeon intel mac for few years with my ATI x1900 Xt card without any problem until yesterday, I upgraded the OS X from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2.
Panic attack for more than 6 times, reports was sent to apple already.
I followed a suggestion while google the problem, I changed the display card slot from slot 1 to slot 2, all the panic attack was gone, I can sleep the machine in Os X and also the boot camp windows XP. However, it should not be a solution but only a workaround because the PCI configuration utility can not configure the PCIe slot 2 to 16x, therefore, the display card is only running at 8x speed. However, I can not observe any significant speed decrease. But this is definitely not a solution unless Apple release 10.6.3 to solve the problem.
However, I found that the ATI x1900 xt card is stop selling in the apple store, I am afraid that Apple will no longer consider any compatibility issue related to this display card at all.
Yesterday my macbook started kernel panics on sleep. 10.6.2 had been on for a while so I don't think that upgrade was the problem. I had just upgraded the latest safari patch but I suspect the real culprit was a very big Secure Empty Trash that I did.
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
10C540
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov 3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro5,5 (Mac-F2268AC8)
