Kernel panics on Mountain Lion are normal?

I have been having the same problem. I have a MBP 13' mid 2009, I upgraded to 8GB of RAM (which has passed all tests and works fine with my HDD), I installed an OCZ Agility 3 SSD (which worked fine with Lion), I installed Mountain Lion on it about two weeks ago and have been getting increasing kernel panics ever since.

This is almost certainly graphics related - as mentioned previously by other posters. I discussed at length the SSD with OCZ to see if they have any problems with compatibility but they said they have tested it extensively with ML and have never had a problem.

To test the graphics theory I uninstalled Flash and Silverlight (as all kernels happen whilst watching video) and since I did that, about 48 hours ago I have not had any panics. Obviously not ideal but as the previous guy mentioned I might wait until the new driver is released before reinstalling Flash and Silverlight.

Any other advice is welcome - I have been trying everything!

For those experiencing this issue, I can't overstate the importance of making sure you have a case logged with AppleCare about it, as squeaky wheels do determine Engineering effort directed at an issue.

My issue turned out to be HMA had linked to a down level version of tun tap - make sure you use the 2011 verson and not the 2009 version

@Carl Take a look at this, This driver was updated by on the 10th of september and that was after you recieved notice from Nvidia. Let me knowm what transpires http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-304.00.00f20-driver.html

It it dosen/t show up go to Nvidia's website and go to drivers, 100 series and GT 120 and you will see a updated driver there. Let me know if it fixes your problem.

**** It, I'm suffering the same issue as you! Thought maybe we got lucky! 😟 Sorry Carl 😟

I uninstalled Flash and Silverlight, clean reinstall of Mountain Lion, reset PRAM. I now just use chrome (with built in flash and silverlight), I did a few scans with Onyx which showed 3 syntax errors with blank scripts - I deleted these and so far no kernel pancis.

There is a still a problem with graphics though - Tried playing a bit of GTA (which would normally produce a kernel panic) and it said there was a fault and I needed to debug - but it did not kernel panic, GTA just force quit.

So it appears Ive prevented the kernel attacks but not quite solved the graphics problem - looks like I'll join the back of the queue and wait for that update.

Forgot to mention all video now plays fine with no screen tearing.

Not sure if anyone had this problem in the first place? but all of the above seemed to sort it out for me.

New kind of Nvidia Driver related crash today (updated to 10.8.2 on my MacPro 4,1 today):

Sun Sep 23 15:14:46 2012

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8018651c07): "IOGMD: not wired for the IODMACommand"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/iokit/Kernel/IOMemoryDescriptor.c pp:1424"

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff81ebb1b500 : 0xffffff801821d626

0xffffff81ebb1b570 : 0xffffff8018651c07

0xffffff81ebb1b600 : 0xffffff801864c9de

0xffffff81ebb1b6b0 : 0xffffff801864d60a

0xffffff81ebb1b6d0 : 0xffffff7f98925a44

0xffffff81ebb1b740 : 0xffffff7f9898fd85

0xffffff81ebb1b790 : 0xffffff7f9898feaf

0xffffff81ebb1b7e0 : 0xffffff7f98975515

0xffffff81ebb1b860 : 0xffffff7f98973815

0xffffff81ebb1b8a0 : 0xffffff7f98962083

0xffffff81ebb1b950 : 0xffffff7f9898c177

0xffffff81ebb1bb40 : 0xffffff7f9898d1d8

0xffffff81ebb1bc10 : 0xffffff7f99b8d419

0xffffff81ebb1bd50 : 0xffffff7f99b8cefe

0xffffff81ebb1bd60 : 0xffffff7f99b64cfb

0xffffff81ebb1bd70 : 0xffffff7f99b3b580

0xffffff81ebb1bdb0 : 0xffffff7f99b39dc2

0xffffff81ebb1bde0 : 0xffffff7f99b3deef

0xffffff81ebb1be00 : 0xffffff7f997712a4

0xffffff81ebb1be20 : 0xffffff7f99771237

0xffffff81ebb1be50 : 0xffffff7f99b558ac

0xffffff81ebb1be80 : 0xffffff7f99b3a506

0xffffff81ebb1bed0 : 0xffffff7f99b384c7

0xffffff81ebb1bef0 : 0xffffff80186472a8

0xffffff81ebb1bf30 : 0xffffff8018645daa

0xffffff81ebb1bf80 : 0xffffff8018645ed9

0xffffff81ebb1bfb0 : 0xffffff80182b26b7

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface(86.0.3)[578CEAAD-1465-3B29-B34F-09586288ED88]@0xffffff7f9976d000->0xffffff7f997 7efff

com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f9891f000->0xffffff7f98c21f ff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.1)[9901C237-547C-3B52-99DE-C4870A19E2B5]@0xffff ff7f9888d000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f9890b000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f988c8000

com.apple.GeForce(8.0)[2E56ED9A-D848-3795-9E52-56BABDC9000C]@0xffffff7f99b34000->0xffffff7f99bf6f ff

dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f9891f000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f9890b000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.1)[9901C237-547C-3B52-99DE-C4870A19E2B5]@0xffff ff7f9888d000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f988c8000

@ blueruck Could You please explain what you mean by Nam. I am not a core programmer but I do need to fix this problem so I can actually work again. My problem happens with video editing is beyond annoying and my job is in complete state of jeapordy because of this. Help??!!

It is definitely a problem with people who have got a mid-2009 13 inch MacBook Pro

This is most excellent news and I am downloading the driver now. This will really save my business.

No such luck! I downloaded from the link above, tried to install it, and It refused giving me the lame message pasted below...

No driver update is needed for this system. This system already has drivers which support NVIDIA GeForce and Quadro Mac OS X edition cards.

@ blueruck Could You please explain what you mean by "HMA had linked to a down level version of tun tap"?? How do I fix this? I am not a programmer but I do need to fix this problem so I can actually work again. My problem happens with video editing and it's beyond annoying. My job is in complete state of jeapordy because of this. Help??!!

Ok here is the something interesting that may be of assistance with installing a graphics card, but I am not saavy enough to alter this to specifically what I need, to upgrade a graphics driver from a third party source. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1325709