Kernel Panic in Lion

I have been having rare (about once a month) kernel panics due to my Bluetooth magic mouse since upgrading to Lion and could not figure out what was going on...until yesterday. The Bluetooth mouse operates on 2.4 GHz frequency, alnd from what I understand, this frequency is open to a lot of interference...from wireless phones and all sorts of devices...my computer is set up less than 3 feet from an AT&T 3G Microcell tower and this seems to cause Bluetooth issues...here is a link to a AT&T forum which talks about this matter: http://forums.att.com/t5/3G-MicroCell/Wireless-Mouse-Interference/td-p/2010217

In Lion, WiFi and other security as been tightened, and I've decided to move my 3G minicell to reduce the possibility of interference. Computers don't operate in a vacuum, and sometimes we just have to look around to see what could be causing a problem...BTW, 2.4 GHz wireless phones also do a number on Bluetooth peripherals. Hope this info helps someone.

dradam wrote:

Okay, I tried Kyahx's suggestion but just got another Kernel Panic. I've noticed my bluetooth keyboard, although it has 75% battery life has been having trouble staying connected to the iMac lately....

Here is some more information about Bluetooth interference...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1365

Thanks for the suggestion Tess888. I reinstalled Lion by the way, no luck, still got a Kernel panic. The report looks almost identical to the last one - bluetooth related? I'm wondering - I use a bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth mouse, and bluetooth trackpad - can they be interfering with each other and this result in a Kernel Panic? I'm going to try to go without my trackpad for a while and see what happens.

What happened to "Macs never crash"? Ho Hum....

You're welcome dradam...it's no secret that the way Lion interacts with WiFi is a lot different than Snow Leopard...remote backups to a wireless Time Machine are very ify now...increased security, I believe, and some new 2.2 protocol...think it's net to talk, but I'm not sure. In any case, are all of your Bluetooth devices of Apple origin, or are they third party? As for causing a Kernel Panic, yes, I think it's possible, from what I've seen of Lion so far...it's a great operating system, but when something disagrees with the Big Cat ...it's a hairball (crash). Found some other info, which may be helpful to you as well... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3250763?start=0&tstart=0 After I move my mini 3G tower, I'll post a progress report if the kernal panics have finally stopped for good.

FYI, I just received an email from an Apple engineer about my kernel panic reports. I passed along this thread and the Snow Leopard-kext-replacement hack, so... hopefully we'll see a real fix soon.

Update...It's been 8 days now, and no more BlueTooth kernal panics...so far. I moved the AT&T Mini-cell 3G tower to the other end of the house and the Internet as well as Blue Tooth is working much better now. I was also having have problems with a second Magic Mouse on another MBP, and I thougt it was a defective mouse...it's working normally now as well.

dradam wrote:

Okay, I tried Kyahx's suggestion but just got another Kernel Panic. I've noticed my bluetooth keyboard, although it has 75% battery life has been having trouble staying connected to the iMac lately.

Here's the info the Kernel Panic window gave me:

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily(2.5f17)[59BAAC04-1157-3050-A24A-B651B53A865E] @0xffffff7f812de000->0xffffff7f81350fff

com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController(2.5f17)[7B8A2C74-6E7B-34E8-9 CF8-681164818181]@0xffffff7f81386000->0xffffff7f8138efff

dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController(2.5f17)[675ECD81-4309-3606-BF57 -C5CDFCC8C6FD]@0xffffff7f81370000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily(2.5f17)[59BAAC04-1157-3050-A24A-B651B53A865E] @0xffffff7f812de000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(4.4.0)[B3A43E5E-4603-30E5-BEB2-B3388781AD21]@0xffff ff7f80f92000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:

11B26

Is it possible there is an issue with the bluetooth software on my machine that, since upgrading to Lion, is causing the Kernel Panics?

Any help greatly appreciated!

😟

also, no more problems here, with Kyahx's suggestion

Hi everyone, I have an iMac 21,5" (late 2009) and a month ago i installed Lion. Yesterday when I tried to turn off my Mac I had a Kernel Panic. Now my Mac is working without problems. Here's the report, can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance.

Sat Oct 8 21:29:51 2011 panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002c268d): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80002e9f50, type 13=general protection, registers: CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x00007fff75a36ee0, CR3: 0x0000000001b0d000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660 RAX: 0x8080808080808080, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0x0000000025000000, RDX: 0x0000000000000000 RSP: 0xffffff807f983ca0, RBP: 0xffffff807f983ce0, RSI: 0x0000000000000000, RDI: 0xffffff800c053ea0 R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x000000000000000b, R10: 0x0000000000000020, R11: 0x0000000000000000 R12: 0x0000000000000000, R13: 0xffffff800fbd02e8, R14: 0x000000000000000b, R15: 0x0000000000000000 RFL: 0x0000000000010282, RIP: 0xffffff80002e9f50, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010 CR2: 0x00007fff75a36ee0, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Faulting CPU: 0x0 Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address 0xffffff807f983960 : 0xffffff8000220702 0xffffff807f9839e0 : 0xffffff80002c268d 0xffffff807f983b80 : 0xffffff80002d7a3d 0xffffff807f983ba0 : 0xffffff80002e9f50 0xffffff807f983ce0 : 0xffffff80002fd346 0xffffff807f983d30 : 0xffffff80002fce9e 0xffffff807f983d70 : 0xffffff80002fe80e 0xffffff807f983de0 : 0xffffff800030bdfa 0xffffff807f983e30 : 0xffffff80002fc2c6 0xffffff807f983e50 : 0xffffff800054d944 0xffffff807f983ed0 : 0xffffff80005599b7 0xffffff807f983f50 : 0xffffff80005ca88b 0xffffff807f983fb0 : 0xffffff80002d8383 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: launchd Mac OS version: 11B26 Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 11.1.0: Tue Jul 26 16:07:11 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.22.81~1/RELEASE_X86_64 Kernel UUID: D52AAB80-B2BC-3C6E-BBEA-78BD28064998 System model name: iMac10,1 (Mac-F2268CC8) System uptime in nanoseconds: 9037088464127 last loaded kext at 22773974448: com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.4d0 (addr 0xffffff7f81ced000, size 28672) last unloaded kext at 236305249720: com.apple.driver.PioneerSuperDrive 3.0.0 (addr 0xffffff7f81bb1000, size 12288) loaded kexts: com.vmware.kext.vmnet 3.1.3 com.vmware.kext.vmioplug 3.1.3 com.vmware.kext.vmci 3.1.3 com.vmware.kext.vmx86 3.1.3 com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.4d0 com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch 66.3 com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0 com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 122 com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.9 com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.24 com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.1.1f12 com.apple.kext.ATIFramebuffer 7.0.4 com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.12.40 com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 2.1.1f12 com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros40 500.55.5 com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.1.9 com.apple.ATIRadeonX2000 7.0.4 com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.59 com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1 com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0 com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.2.0 com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 4.7.0b2 com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.5.1 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1 com.apple.BootCache 32 com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 309 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader 3.0.0 com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.0.0 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.0.0 com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.8.6 com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.1.8 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 4.4.0 com.apple.nvenet 2.0.17 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 4.4.0 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBOHCI 4.4.0 com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.5.0 com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.4 com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.6 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.4 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.7 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.4 com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.5 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 166.0.0 com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 3.0.30 com.apple.security.quarantine 1 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 166.0.0 com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver 220.62 com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver 2.5f17 com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0 com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.1.1f12 com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 400.40 com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.0.3 com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3 com.apple.kext.ATI4600Controller 7.0.4 com.apple.kext.ATISupport 7.0.4 com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 80.0 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 2.5f17 com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.5 com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.3fc11 com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3 com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.1.1f12 com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.3 com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.1.1f12 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.10d0 com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.1d2 com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.7.0b2 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.10d0 com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.3 com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.5f17 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.5f17 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 2.5f17 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDKeyboard 152.3 com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 152.3 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 4.4.0 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 3.0.0 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass 3.0.0 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 4.4.0 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 3.9.0 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.0.0 com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6 com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.6 com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7 com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 403 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI 2.0.0 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.0.0 com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.4.3 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.6 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 4.4.0 com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 2.0 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 4.4.0 com.apple.driver.NVSMU 2.2.9 com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.5.0 com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.7.0 com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1 com.apple.security.sandbox 165 com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1 com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7 com.apple.driver.DiskImages 330.1 com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.7 com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 28.18 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.4 com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6.5 com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4

I noticed that you have VMware in your logs...you should update to the latest version of VMware (4) or try the new Parallels 7, which is an easy install, goof proof, and great in Lion. I had graphics issues in VMware 3.1.3, but they're gone now. Also, you should update Flash...I was experiencing kernel panics and freezes and lots of errors in the console app...and terrible Safari memory leaks...a Flash upgrade seemed to fix these issues as well...hope this helps.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Thank you very much for your help!

Kyahx' suggestion worked for me as well.

Thank you.

Same problem here. Have both Apple bluetooth keyboard and magic trackpad connected. Getting kernel panics on startup only. Once the system starts, it's very stable. Fairly certain that the problem is related to the trackpad which - even on good days - connects and disconnects upon system start.

Started the MB Pro with battery pulled from trackpad and all is well. Once system started up, popped battery back in and trackpad connected and have been running a few hours w/o problem.

Hopefully Apple has an update for the bluetooth driver soon.

so it's been 6 months now since this issue has surfaced, and two lion updates later, apple has yet to address this issue. kernel panics, every day even after deleting window server files, and switching to full time high performance graphics.

Immediatelly after the upgrade to 10.7.2 the first restart resulted in a kernel panic.

Had to swap kexts again as per Kyahx' hint and everything works fine since then.

Installed Lion a few months back - have had no problems. Now I needed to use wireless network because I couldn't use the wire anymore (the computer moved). I began getting these BSOD aka kernal panics. Usually when network load was high (heavy load on internal network to NAS).

Used Kyahx' hint and everything works fine since then.