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Kernel panic from iPhone USB tethering

I had a kernel panic this morning. I'm not sure, but it reads as if it was something to do with my using my iPhone 3GS as an Internet Tether through USB [only, I turned off bluetooth]. It was the only different thing that I was doing at the time.

Anybody know if this is a known error?

The relevant detail of the panic is:

"
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
10F569

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 18:27:12 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.7.4~1/RELEASE X8664
System model name: MacBookPro5,3 (Mac-F22587C8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 103887833210842
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEthernetHost 2.0.1 (addr 0xffffff7f809d0000, size 0x20480) - last unloaded 78279855313412
loaded kexts:
at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch 2.2.05
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEthernetHost 2.0.1 - last loaded 102538295428296
"

iMac + 15" Macbook Pro + 13" Macbook + 32Gb iPhone 3GS + Space Capsule + Mac min, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 19, 2010 4:31 AM

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CLiDE

Level 1

79 points

Posted on Jul 19, 2010 4:14 PM

I've been getting KP's lately, too. Since I've updated to iOS4 on my iPhone 3G, when I tether data from my iPhone to my MBP 13" via USB, I randomly get panics.

I've isolated this down to USB tethering as well, because tethering via bluetooth doesn't cause this to happen.

I've done a restart to my iPhone (proper shut down AND force reboot) and still get random kernel panics by USB tethering.

Kinda annoying, especially since connecting to my iPhone to tether via Bluetooth is flaky at times in OS X.

I'll be sure to post what info it dumps out next time I get this error.

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Rubin126

Level 1

5 points

Sep 18, 2011 8:02 AM in response to Michael Paine

you cannot delete iTunes in Lion probably because apple has changd preinstalled softwares permissions so nobody except the super user would be able to do anything on the,any way...

to Trash Itunes in Lion

fire up Terminal (Go to Application/utilities->Terminal (you can press command+shift+u in finder and then-> Terminal)) type (it's better you copy paste so avoid mistype) exactly as below

sudo rm -r /Applications/iTunes.app/

and then when "Password:" appeared type your login passwrod, it takes several seconds and if nothing goes wrong (most likely it won't if you do exactly as it's written here) your itunes will be removed, reinstall iTunes again

Sep 19, 2011 2:25 AM in response to Rubin126

Might be best to check if Lion will let you reinstall iTunes after such drastic measures.

Kernel panic from iPhone USB tethering