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Adam Wright2 Author

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Problems with kernel panics when sleeping since 10.6.8

Hi folks,

I installed 10.6.8 the day it was issued, and since then have had some very odd problems with sleeping my Mac Pro. Intermittently, it goes into a half-sleep state when I request sleep mode; the fans still spin, but the sleep light pulses. It refuses to wake up, requiring a hard reset. The console logs show:

Sleep: Drivers Failure Panic

The specific panic is:

panic(cpu X caller 0xffffff80002251fb): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0x101, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.15.3/osfmk/x86_64/pmap.c:2741

where cpu X varies between any one of the 6 cores.

So far, I've tried

Resetting the PRAM and SMC
Disabling a raft of sleep related options (Wake on Bluetooth, etc)
Reinstalling the 10.6.8 update via the Combo updater
Repairing disk permissions
Reinstalling from the factory DVD and re-running the combo updater

And no doubt other things I've forgotten. The only thing that seems to fix it is to not install 10.6.8; when I reinstalled 10.6.4 (the factory OS), it slept and woke fine 10 times. As soon as the combo update was installed, it started sleep crashing again after 4-5 attempts.

I'm assuming this is some rogue driver bug introduced in the .8 release, but I've not seen anyone else suffering the problem. I would roll back onto .7, but will obviously need .8 to install Lion when it arrives.

Does anyone have any suggestions that I've missed, or has anyone else seen this problem?

Thanks,

adamw

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 2010 6-Core Westmere; 5970 Radeon

Posted on Jun 26, 2011 6:46 AM

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The hatter

Level 9

61,001 points

Posted on Jun 26, 2011 6:54 AM

you should as you are finding always keep a bootable backup before updating.

there are 3rd party driver issues (there have always been such issues with every update btw)

5970? maybe there is a suspect.

Two sites that I follow that tend to get a lot of reader feedback and reports on OS issues:

MacFixit

MacInTouch

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janalex

Level 1

9 points

Aug 4, 2011 9:26 AM in response to jennifer77

Anybody tried to update to Lion yet? Did it fix the sleep issue?

Thanks,

--Jan

Aug 4, 2011 9:33 AM in response to janalex

Upgrading to Lion hosed the system that was having problems (it slowed to a crawl with random programs hanging), I didn't even get to try if the sleep problem went away. I decided to do a clean install with Lion and everything has been working fine ever since, no more sleep issues or kernel panics.

Aug 4, 2011 9:14 PM in response to janalex

I downloaded Lion, did the install onto a blank drive, ran the Migration Assistant.

Uninstalled VMware Fusion

Re-Installed VMware Fusion.

Uptime - 10Days.

This was for:

panic(cpu 2 caller 0x28fc2e): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0xc0, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.15.3/osfmk/i386/pmap.c:3572

boo joo

Level 1

19 points

Aug 9, 2011 5:59 PM in response to Adam Wright2

I have the same problems

Running 10.6.8

I have parallels installed also.

ATI HD 5770

Dual Monitor/

1 using ADC adapter

I'm scared to update to Lion now, Yikes!

I don't want to do a clean install, that would be a pain.

apple help us all....

why did I update my system..........

boo joo

Level 1

19 points

Aug 9, 2011 6:01 PM in response to boo joo

I guess I can just turn off going to sleep on my mac.... I'm not sure if that would help or not?

I have not experienced any kernal panic errors *yet* !

urandom

Level 1

0 points

Aug 19, 2011 1:40 AM in response to Adam Wright2

Guys, did anyone resolve this issue by installing the revised 10.6.8 update?

Aug 24, 2011 11:33 AM in response to Adam Wright2

I installed the revised 10.6.8 update and the problem persists.

urandom

Level 1

0 points

Aug 25, 2011 1:54 AM in response to barneyruble

thanks for the info. So I'll stick to 10.6.7 😟

boo joo

Level 1

19 points

Aug 29, 2011 9:23 PM in response to Adam Wright2

Someone help!

Should I upgrade to Lion to solve the problem?

Running 10.6.8

dual monitors and

Parallels

....

this is nuts!!!!!! help someone! apple where are you? what are you doing ?

I just disabled my computer from going to sleep to solve the problem, if i don't then it goes to sleep mode and my fans get really loud and I have to do a force restart with the power button to get it to come back.

this is insane!

AnaMusic

Level 9

57,562 points

Aug 29, 2011 9:29 PM in response to boo joo

boo joo wrote:

Someone help!

Should I upgrade to Lion to solve the problem?

Running 10.6.8

dual monitors and

Parallels

....

.

this is nuts!!!!!! help someone! apple where are you? what are you doing ?

I just disabled my computer from going to sleep to solve the problem, if i don't then it goes to sleep mode and my fans get really loud and I have to do a force restart with the power button to get it to come back.

this is insane!

If your System is having Issues... Upgrading to Lion will not necessarily Resolve the Issues

Apparently there was a Problem with Parallels and the 10 6 8 Update...

Have you Updated to the Latest Version of Parallels...

See Here

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3156926?answerId=15545563022#15545563022

Aug 29, 2011 11:17 PM in response to Adam Wright2

I don't run Parallels but do have dual monitors on an ATI 5870 and I've had this problem since upgrading to 10.6.8. I have not seen anything that tells me that upgrading to Lion will fix this. I get around this problem (sort of) by setting my System Preferences>Energy Saver>Computer Sleep to not go to sleep. The display is still allowed to sleep and I'm able to 'wake up' the display without a problem. Removing one of the monitors did not help either.

urandom

Level 1

0 points

Aug 30, 2011 2:35 AM in response to Adam Wright2

I just upgraded to Lion and now suspend works fine again...

Aug 30, 2011 2:39 AM in response to urandom

Same here: problems went away after doing a Lion clean install (the upgrade caused all sorts of problems, but I'm not sure that has anything to so with this particular problem)