Lion 10.7.2 Constantly Freezing Crashing on MacBook Pro

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Lion 10.7.2 Constantly Freezing Crashing on MacBook Pro

I am at my wits end! My MacBook Pro (MacBookPro2,2 2006) is constantly crashing and/or freezing. Everything was perfectly fine until I installed the 10.7.2 update. Then things started to get progressively worse. Now I can't go 15 minutes without the system freezing up or crashing. It crashes 20 times a day or more and is completely unusable at this point. I really need to get work done and don't know what else to do.

It doesn't seem to matter what applications are open. I thought at first maybe it was Safari or Mail but I've had it hang or crash with just the Finder open. Sometimes it just freezes up yet, if iTunes is playing music, the music will continue to play in the background but you can't interact with anything. Sometimes the mouse pointer will still move and sometimes it won't. Sometimes I'll get the spinning beachball of death. Other times it will just instantly restart on its own. A couple times the screen just rolled to grey then died. I never get a crash report that I can post or send to Apple.

I am very technically proficient and have done absolutely everything I can think of at this point including:

* Resetting PRAM.
* Repairing disk permissions and running a disk check
* Ran TechToolPro and everything came back OK.
* Updated all software and removed any weird kernal extensions.
* Unhooked any attached peripherals.
* Tried different networks or switching to wired ethernet.
* Logged in with Shift key down so no extra software loaded.

The ONLY thing that seems to work is starting up in Safe Mode by holding down the Shift key at boot. Which is what led me to think that maybe some rogue kernal extensions were to blame but I removed all but the blessed Apple extensions. Safe Mode loads only the most basic system software so is not very usable. The fact that it runs OK here makes me believe it must be a bug in Apples 10.7.2 update but who knoes what part since so much of the OS is not loaded in Safe Mode.

I've also tried running Apple Hardware Tests (AHT) but can't get it to run for the life of me. I followed another postwhere we copy the .diagnostics folder into /System/Library/CoreServices from the original software discs that came with the computer but holding down the "D" key on startup still doesn't invoke the tests. Won't run off the CD either. I get some weird circle with a slash through it. Going to take it in to the Genius Bar tomorrow and have them run the hardware tests. I'll report back after but I don't feel too sure they're going to have a good answer.

A side issue now is that, after all this, my MacBook Pro takes over half an hour to boot each time. It appears to be doing a Safe Boot no matter what even though I don't hold down the Shift key at startup. I always get the progress bar under the Apple logo and I think it is doing a fschk each time. But when it finally comes up it's not actually in Safe Boot mode. It never used to do this and I can't get it to stop. With all the crashes and now this incredibly long startup each time I'm about to throw this thing out the window.

I've read hundreds of other posts across the Internet with like experiences but no good answers. A lot of people seem to think it is an Nvidia graphics card related issue or a discrete graphics issue but my older machine doesn't have swithable graphics and it's card is ATI. But I do sometimes get strange graphic artifacts on the screen before it crashes and some Apps have lines through their interfaces so I'm wondering if the latest system update screwed up graphics drivers?

I'm posting here in the hopes that someone, anyone, can help me!!! I think Lion 10.7.2 has serious bugs and is one of the worst updates Apple has ever released.

Is anyone else having similar problems and does anyone out there have a solution?!!

MacBook Pro (15-inch Core 2 Duo), Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 13, 2012 3:27 PM

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scrantch Author

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Jan 20, 2012 10:46 AM in response to scrantch

More info...

Don't know why the diagnostics don't kick in when the "D" key is held down but I imagine it's related to the portion of my post where the progress bar comes up every time on boot for half an hour. It is doing a fschk because there probably is directory or partition damage and it probably ignores the "D" key.

I'm sure this is a side effect of all the crashes I've had lately as it didn't originally do an fschk each time when all the problems started. But to make sure directory damage wasn't the cause of the problem I went ahead and wiped the entire drive, reinstalled the whole OS, apps, and... same !@#$% problem this morning! Goes to all black screen and then hangs. I have to force restart again.

I did manage to find and download the Apple Service Diagnostic disc and ran that. Performed 10 loops of tests overnight and everything came back perfect so I really don't think hardware or memory is to blame. I have the latest firmware installed for my machine. Again, my machine is about 6 years old at this point. Lion isn't the snappiest but still ran perfectly fine under 10.7.1. I am more and more convinced that 10.7.2 is the problem. Everything started going south after this update.

At this point I am at a complete loss. I'm just praying that the imminent release of 10.7.3 will fix these problems. UGH!

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Answer 2

scrantch Author

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Jan 21, 2012 12:01 PM in response to scrantch

FINALLY got Lion to produce a crash report during one of these disasters. Like my gut was telling me this seems graphics driver related. Here it is:

Interval Since Last Panic Report: -3210485 sec

Panics Since Last Report: 1

Anonymous UUID: A83A615F-B88F-4999-9770-1B8A3CCCF56A

Sat Jan 21 02:46:16 2012

panic(cpu 1 caller 0x2cdabf): Kernel trap at 0x0183a649, type 0=divide error, registers:

CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x43463000, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660

EAX: 0x00000002, EBX: 0x07120000, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x00000000

CR2: 0x43463000, EBP: 0x4939bd78, ESI: 0x0712f800, EDI: 0x00000002

EFL: 0x00010246, EIP: 0x0183a649, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010

Error code: 0x00000000

Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

0x4939bba8 : 0x22032e (0x6ad86c 0x4939bbc8 0x229f00 0x0)

0x4939bbd8 : 0x2cdabf (0x6b9c3c 0x183a649 0x0 0x6b9b29)

0x4939bc88 : 0x2e3e34 (0x4939bcb0 0x4939bc98 0x4939bca8 0x0)

0x4939bca8 : 0x183a649 (0xe 0x7110048 0x49390010 0x630010)

0x4939bd78 : 0x183b660 (0x712f800 0xafc8 0xa53c 0x4939bdb0)

0x4939bd98 : 0x1847dc0 (0x712f800 0x4939bdb0 0x4939bdb8 0x607df2)

0x4939bdf8 : 0x1847e6c (0x7118800 0x4939be08 0x1a7 0x1c2)

0x4939be38 : 0x181ba99 (0x7118800 0x0 0x0 0x710e000)

0x4939be58 : 0x181dd7e (0x710e000 0x0 0x4939be88 0x23f675)

0x4939be88 : 0xfa51d4 (0x710e000 0x20646773 0x0 0xfaedec)

0x4939beb8 : 0xfa5228 (0x710e000 0x45 0x4939bee8 0xfaee61)

0x4939bee8 : 0xfaaa08 (0x7fb1200 0x45 0x6607d8 0x867840)

0x4939bf28 : 0x661b7a (0x7207580 0x70b8e00 0x1 0x2c457d)

0x4939bf68 : 0x6609c8 (0x70b8e00 0x73743f8 0x0 0x66dfac0)

0x4939bfa8 : 0x660844 (0x7207580 0x66dfac0 0x720759c 0x72493f8)

0x4939bfc8 : 0x2c6d0c (0x7207580 0x0 0x10 0x7aa71d0)

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.2)[26D3FB6E-BBEB-45EE-9088-3099D2D09F78]@0 xf97000->0xfc8fff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.7)[82A51E17-453D-40F5-BF0E-DD89598C76DB]@0xaed0 00

com.apple.kext.ATI1600Controller(7.1.2)[2DF2D325-D669-444E-97FA-5166E109C518]@0 x182e000->0x185cfff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[78EFF11D-3C74-40FD-9948-191DDC4E44C0]@0xabc00 0

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.7)[82A51E17-453D-40F5-BF0E-DD89598C76DB]@0xaed0 00

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.2)[26D3FB6E-BBEB-45EE-9088-3099D2D09F78]@0 xf97000

dependency: com.apple.kext.ATISupport(7.1.2)[AA9B5C8F-D250-4112-B1E5-9D4F63935B92]@0x162900 0

com.apple.kext.ATIFramebuffer(7.1.2)[3176A7CF-8C84-4300-BD27-46796A47987D]@0x18 17000->0x182dfff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[78EFF11D-3C74-40FD-9948-191DDC4E44C0]@0xabc00 0

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.7)[82A51E17-453D-40F5-BF0E-DD89598C76DB]@0xaed0 00

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.2)[26D3FB6E-BBEB-45EE-9088-3099D2D09F78]@0 xf97000

dependency: com.apple.kext.ATISupport(7.1.2)[AA9B5C8F-D250-4112-B1E5-9D4F63935B92]@0x162900 0

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:

11C74

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug 9 20:56:15 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_I386

Kernel UUID: C2810CF8-D672-3301-8D3F-ED56974A80E1

System model name: MacBookPro2,2 (Mac-F42187C8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 106928438687

last loaded kext at 72538426224: com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch 66.3 (addr 0x1c42000, size 49152)

loaded kexts:

com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower 1.5.2

com.iospirit.driver.rbiokithelper 1.19.2

com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport 3

com.Logitech.Control Center.HID Driver 3.5.1

com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch 66.3

com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC 4.1.15

com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.4d0

com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.59

com.apple.driver.AppleTyMCEDriver 1.0.2d2

com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.9

com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.26

com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.1.3f7

com.apple.kext.ATIFramebuffer 7.1.2

com.apple.ATIRadeonX1000 7.0.0

com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.1d2

com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU 2.0.1d2

com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1

com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0

com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.2.1

com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros21 430.14.9

com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl 3.0.16

com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.5.3

com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.1.9

com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 4.7.5d4

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1

com.apple.BootCache 33

com.apple.driver.CSRHIDTransitionDriver 4.0.1f4

com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 312

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTrackpad 225.2

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver 225.2

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 225.2

com.apple.driver.USBCameraFirmwareLoader 1.1.0

com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.0.1

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.0.1

com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.5.0

com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.2.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 4.5.0

com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2 3.2.2b1

com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.4

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 4.5.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 4.4.5

com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.8.9

com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 161.0.0

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 167.0.0

com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 3.2.30

com.apple.security.quarantine 1

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 167.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver 220.62.1

com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver 4.0.1f4

com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0

com.apple.driver.AppleAVBAudio 1.0.0d11

com.apple.driver.AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver 2.1.3f7

com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.1.3f7

com.apple.kext.ATI1600Controller 7.1.2

com.apple.kext.ATISupport 7.1.2

com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.1.3f7

com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.1.3f7

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.4

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 80.0

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.0.1f4

com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.5

com.apple.iokit.IOAVBFamily 1.0.0d22

com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController 1.0.0d5

com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.3fc11

com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3

com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl 3.0.16

com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 411.1

com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.0.16

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.10d0

com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.0.3

com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.2

com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.3.2

com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.1d8

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.7.5d4

com.apple.driver.CSRUSBBluetoothHCIController 4.0.1f4

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 4.0.1f4

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.0.1f4

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 4.5.3

com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 13

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 4.4.5

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 3.9.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.0.1

com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6

com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.7

com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7

com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 403

com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport 3.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.0.1

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.7

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 4.5.3

com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 2.0

com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.5.0

com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.1

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 4.5.3

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.4.5

com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.7.1

com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1

com.apple.security.sandbox 165.3

com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1

com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7

com.apple.driver.DiskImages 331

com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.7

com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 28.18

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.4

com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6.7

com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4

Model: MacBookPro2,2, BootROM MBP22.00A5.B07, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.33 GHz, 3 GB, SMC 1.12f5

Graphics: ATI Radeon X1600, ATY,RadeonX1600, PCIe, 256 MB

Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz, 0x2C00000000000000, 0x3136485453323536363448592D3636374531

Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz, 0xCE00000000000000, 0x4D342037305432393533435A332D43453620

AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme, Atheros 5416: 2.1.14.9

Bluetooth: Version 4.0.1f4, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports

Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0

Serial ATA Device: WDC WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0, 500.11 GB

Parallel ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA

USB Device: Built-in iSight, apple_vendor_id, 0x8501, 0xfd400000 / 2

USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8205, 0x7d100000 / 2

USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8240, 0x5d200000 / 2

USB Device: hub_device, 0x0451 (Texas Instruments), 0x2046, 0x3d100000 / 2

USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x021a, 0x1d200000 / 2

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Answer 3

Jan 22, 2012 12:37 PM in response to scrantch

I'm having almost precisely the same symptoms on my unibody MacBook pro since the last system update. Also ran techtool pro, repaired permissions, diagnostics, etc, but to no avail. It's really quite frustrating! Any new updates as to possible fixes? I'm actively searching for a solution, and will post here if one is found.

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scrantch Author

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Jan 22, 2012 12:45 PM in response to JosiahDean

Nothing yet on my end. I did reinstall the 10.7.2 Combo update and have been running the last couple days without a crash (dare I say it!). You might try the same. But I'm still getting weird streaks of pixels in the interfaces of apps randomly. I still believe something happened with graphics in the 10.7.2 update. Waiting and waiting and waiting for 10.7.3. Hope it will fix these issues!

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scrantch Author

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Jan 26, 2012 5:05 PM in response to scrantch

OK. The 10.7.2 Combo update seemed to make things better at first but now I'm back to constant crashes. All kinds of weird artifacts and mis-draws happening on screen in windows before it crashes. I am convinced something happened to the graphics drivers in 10.7.2. Nothing more I can do. 10.7.3 better come soon and it better fix things.

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Answer 6

Mar 20, 2012 11:01 AM in response to scrantch

I have been having what you call "miss-draws" also at least since 7.2 and now on 7.3. I thought maybe I had a bad memory or something, but now I see I am not alone...

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scrantch Author

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Mar 20, 2012 3:59 PM in response to Doug Huebner

Yep. 10.7.3 didn't help things either. I don't think the new versions of the OS were fully qualified on older machines like my '06 MacBook Pro. I had to borrow a friend's extra newer MacBook Pro until the new MacBook Airs come out. My old one is completely useless now. *****. Thanks Apple. 😟

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KasaVubu

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May 20, 2012 11:31 PM in response to scrantch

Hi

I m having the same problem on my MBP 15" mid 2009 running lion 10.7.4.

Since upgraded to lion from snow leo. That problem of crashing, slow and freesing has started.

I have several times reintall, restore from back up,

NOTHING HAPPENING.

Should i go back and stay with snow leopard?

Please HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP

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scrantch Author

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May 21, 2012 3:23 PM in response to KasaVubu

Yeah, I got a loaner (newer MacBook Pro) and transfered my backup over to it. No problems at all. Then I just had to give it back last week so I transfered everything back to my old machine and now I'm back to freezing/crashing every few minutes. I just don't think the older machines have been fully qualified to run Lion. Apple has abandoned us. I'm going to by a new machine but waiting (and waiting... and...) for the new MBPs to come out. Any day now. If you want to keep your old machine I would suggest going back to Snow Leopard. I had no problems with it. In my opinion, Lion has been the worst OS release in recent memory from Apple!

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