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kevloucat Author

Level 1

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Diagnosing cause of kernel panic on a Mac Pro

I've got an early 2009 Mac Pro with the following specs:

2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

16 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB

OS X 10.8.1

Problem is, at random times, my Mac would just shut down and then restart after I clicked through the "gray your Mac shut down without telling you because it's selfish" warning screen.

I took it to a local computer shop and they couldn't really tell, and suggested I do a clean install of Mountain Lion. I did that, got everything back on from Time Machine (just Documents and Music, no Libraries per the technician's instructions), and then last night it did it again. Restarted while I was working on a web site. No notice.

I wondered if someone could help me diagnose the problem or problems(s), since I can't make ANY sense of the sytem report.

Here is the complete system report when the panic occurred. Thanks for ANY help at all you can provide.

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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 228862 sec

Panics Since Last Report: 1

Anonymous UUID: 300EE43F-9F5E-478A-A738-158466678DEC

Fri Sep 7 22:25:11 2012

panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff800f2b7b95): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f90a27975, type 13=general protection, registers:

CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0xffffff81fe852000, CR3: 0x0000000011b01000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660

RAX: 0xffffff804da3e400, RBX: 0xffffff804e2ea800, RCX: 0xffffff803113c2c1, RDX: 0x0000000000000000

RSP: 0xffffff81e0f3bd90, RBP: 0xffffff81e0f3bdb0, RSI: 0xffffff8033581b00, RDI: 0xffffff8033581b00

R8: 0x00000000000007bf, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x000000000000f784, R11: 0x0000000000000000

R12: 0x0000000000000001, R13: 0xffffff81af85b0b4, R14: 0xffffff81af85b000, R15: 0xffffff804df41800

RFL: 0x0000000000010286, RIP: 0xffffff7f90a27975, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010

Fault CR2: 0xffffff81fe852000, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x2

Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff81e0f3ba30 : 0xffffff800f21d5f6

0xffffff81e0f3baa0 : 0xffffff800f2b7b95

0xffffff81e0f3bc70 : 0xffffff800f2ce4ad

0xffffff81e0f3bc90 : 0xffffff7f90a27975

0xffffff81e0f3bdb0 : 0xffffff7f90a276f3

0xffffff81e0f3be00 : 0xffffff7f90a276ab

0xffffff81e0f3be50 : 0xffffff7f90a27936

0xffffff81e0f3be80 : 0xffffff7f90a0c5d2

0xffffff81e0f3bed0 : 0xffffff7f90a0a59f

0xffffff81e0f3bef0 : 0xffffff800f647078

0xffffff81e0f3bf30 : 0xffffff800f645b8a

0xffffff81e0f3bf80 : 0xffffff800f645cb9

0xffffff81e0f3bfb0 : 0xffffff800f2b2677

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.GeForce(8.0)[4B9BE287-5251-398E-96B0-BB16C9BFB2D9]@0xffffff7f90a06000 ->0xffffff7f90ac8fff

dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0.0)[6A699209-FB98-316B-A3C0-DCA82AA8C86B]@0xffffff7f8f8 d8000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.4)[99CA4184-8D92-31B2-8726-46139E8E3DFF]@0xff ffff7f8f8c4000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7)[8C9E06A4-13D0-33F5-A377-9E36F0ECC229]@0xffffff 7f8f84d000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.4)[2600903C-EEDE-321B-A023-169DC9B26EA6]@0 xffffff7f8f881000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:

12B19

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 12.1.0: Tue Aug 14 13:29:55 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.9.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: 3005059E-270B-3B9F-940D-7A66C05DDC9D

Kernel slide: 0x000000000f000000

Kernel text base: 0xffffff800f200000

System model name: MacPro4,1 (Mac-F221BEC8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 200816362998684

last loaded kext at 46599045324: com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0 (addr 0xffffff7f91145000, size 36864)

last unloaded kext at 120527452575: com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet 3.1.1b1 (addr 0xffffff7f90492000, size 69632)

loaded kexts:

com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.0.9f8

com.apple.filesystems.ntfs 3.10

com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0

com.apple.driver.AppleTyMCEDriver 1.0.2d2

com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.12.69

com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 122

com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.3.0f2

com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 2.3.0f2

com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60

com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.10

com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.33

com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.0.9f8

com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1

com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.6.0

com.apple.GeForce 8.0.0

com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0

com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0

com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl 3.2.6

com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.2.1

com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.5.1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1

com.apple.BootCache 34

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 5.1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.9.5

com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331 601.15.21

com.apple.driver.Intel82574L 2.3.0b4

com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 5.1.5

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 5.1.5

com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.6.1

com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.5

com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.7

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.9

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 196.0.0

com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 4.0.39

com.apple.security.quarantine 2

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 196.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.6

com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0

com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.3.0f2

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.10d0

com.apple.iokit.AppleBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.0.9f8

com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.9fc9

com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.6

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 86.0.2

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.10d0

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.0.9f8

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.5

com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.3.0f2

com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.3.0f2

com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 8.0.0

com.apple.NVDAResman 8.0.0

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 5.2.0d16

com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.3d11

com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.2.6

com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.4

com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.3.4

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDKeyboard 165.5

com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 165.5

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 5.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 5.1.5

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 3.5.1

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass 3.5.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 5.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.5.1

com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.7

com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.7.1

com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7.1

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI 2.5.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.5.1

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.5.5

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 5.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 500.15

com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.0

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.2.0

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 5.1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.6.1

com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.8.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1

com.apple.security.sandbox 220

com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1

com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7

com.apple.driver.DiskImages 344

com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.8

com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 28.18

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.6

com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.7

com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4

com.apple.kec.corecrypto 1.0

Model: MacPro4,1, BootROM MP41.0081.B07, 4 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.66 GHz, 16 GB, SMC 1.39f5

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, PCIe, 512 MB

Memory Module: DIMM 1, 4 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1066 MHz, 0x857F, 0x463732353155363446393333334700000000

Memory Module: DIMM 2, 4 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1066 MHz, 0x857F, 0x463732353155363446393333334700000000

Memory Module: DIMM 3, 4 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1066 MHz, 0x857F, 0x463732353155363446393333334700000000

Memory Module: DIMM 4, 4 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1066 MHz, 0x857F, 0x463732353155363446393333334700000000

AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.81.21)

Bluetooth: Version 4.0.9f8 10405, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports

Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en2

PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-1

PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-2

Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH41N

Serial ATA Device: WDC WD6400AAKS-41H2B0, 640.14 GB

Serial ATA Device: ST31000333AS, 1 TB

USB Device: Keyboard Hub, apple_vendor_id, 0x1006, 0xfa200000 / 2

USB Device: USB Receiver, 0x046d (Logitech Inc.), 0xc526, 0xfa230000 / 4

USB Device: Apple Keyboard, apple_vendor_id, 0x0220, 0xfa220000 / 3

USB Device: LaCie Hard Drive USB, 0x059f (LaCie), 0x1018, 0xfd100000 / 2

USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x5a100000 / 2

USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8215, 0x5a110000 / 3

FireWire Device: built-in_hub, 800mbit_speed

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Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Sep 8, 2012 2:00 PM

228 replies

The hatter

Level 9

61,011 points

Apr 19, 2013 3:59 AM in response to Tay2001

There was a 4870 and 285 and yes people used both of those.

If you had any other model/number they were PC cards, such as GTX 260. (never heard of 265).

It is possible but up until this last year or so there never were reports of issues with multiple Nvidia cards until someone put two together as the cause just by trying by removing one.

I'd love to hear if MacVidCards can shed some more light what happens.

I would love if there were 3 x 6-pin aux cables or something more than just the two, to allow 5770 + GTX 570.

TWO QUADRO 4000 has / and has not / always worked - but that is rare and someone here and a couple people with that configuration over on Nvidia forum.

Apr 19, 2013 6:25 AM in response to cryptomagic

cryptomagic & techmag, what's the status? Things working? I'm about ready to order my card.

techmag

Level 1

4 points

Apr 19, 2013 8:22 AM in response to timurray2000

Hey Tim - rock solid - ZERO crashes since the hardware upgrade.

I do have a memory issue with the kernel eating up 11GB of RAM and yes I've read all about how it's *supposed* to do that but when it literally takes minutes to open a web page (or change tabs, or flip between already running apps) I'm pretty sure something is actually worng 🙂

The ONLY reason I mention that is that was the trigger for me to do the Mountain Lion upgrades in the first place. (Frypan => Fire...)

For a balanced account however Moutain Lion is way better than Snow Leaopard on the memory issue - at least in my experieince now that I've actualy seen what a running machine is like beyond a single day.

I've dicovered the wonders of 'purge' and that helps - thanks to purge and restarting Safari dialy I can now go about 3 (almost 4) days between boots and still have a reasonably functional machine. I have JUnit test suites that take days to run so yes not rebooting daily IS important to ME.

Back to the matter and question at hand:

I have tortured this machine specifcially to see if I could get it to crash and nothing (yet). My theory on testing is "you don't test for thin ice with a feather duster - you test for thin ice with hobnail boots!")

So 50+ social media windows (heavy flash, ajax, video, html5(ish) stuff going on for DAYS) and no crashes.

So far so good.

And yes I know this doesn't "prove" anything but it is goes bang like a smoking gun and it smells like a smoking gun...

Apr 19, 2013 9:17 AM in response to techmag

What are you talking about 'purge'?

I agree with your testing strategy.

Guess I'll order my video card. I hate to spend $250 to fix this but I've had enuf of it and it's a whole lot cheaper than a new computer.

Tay2001

Level 1

4 points

Apr 19, 2013 12:59 PM in response to The hatter

Apologies, I have a GTX275, its been in a while, it was "tweaked" some time ago, but then again it didnt cost an awful lot either.

That with my GT120 results in maybe 1-2 crashes a week, dependant on what I do and when. so I am not seeing daily crashes.

I'm going to tough mine out for a bit as I'm happy to reboot if needs be to give me a little longer till a crash. Its annoying but I can live with it for a bit.

I'd just go out and get a replacement card but I'm an old stroppy git and dont feel that I should be looking for work arounds for this. I, like many others made a significant investment in this machine and was looking to get a bit more than 4 years out of it, maybe thats just me being old and opionionated. I dont work it hard, in fact I suspect its underworked.

For those that say just protect your investment and just get the card its cheap, yeah, in guess in the grand scheme of things it is but for me its the principle.

I'll keep following this to see if Apple fix it.

Tay2001

Level 1

4 points

Apr 19, 2013 1:03 PM in response to timurray2000

Open up a terminal session and type purge, this frees up disk and memory caches.

Load up activity monitor and look at the system memory before you do it, its effectivly returns the cache to a state similar to the state after a reboot.

Apr 20, 2013 9:48 AM in response to Jsh111

Jsh111 wrote:

Please keep us in the loop on this - I'm especially excited if the ATI and the GeForce play OK together.

How does performance seem to hold up? Any noticeable difference?

Performance has been great. But I'm a developer not a gamer or graphic designer. However, I run lots of Windows VMs (for testing) and I frequently switch between Unity and Single Window modes. On the ATI, it is smooth and instantaneous. On the GT 120 it staggers to do it, taking several seconds.

The ATI 5770 (for 2 displays) and GT 120 (for 3rd display) play together for the most part. It's been 4 days and no KPs. Once in a while the monitor on the GT 120 will forget it's Background or Arrangement position so I'm going to order a MiniDV (female) to DVI (male) adaptor and try running my 3rd monitor on the 5770's DVI port. I think Hatter said that would work.

One other thing improved. I like to have "Wake up on LAN" in my Network Preferences so I can SSH to my MacPro after it falls asleep. When I went to Lion, the GT 120s went haywire and my monitors would flash on and off all night so I turned that off. With the 5770 and one GT 120, it works great again.

Apr 20, 2013 12:21 PM in response to cryptomagic

I'm going to order a MiniDV (female) to DVI (male) adaptor and try running my 3rd monitor on the 5770's DVI port.

If using more than ONE such adapter, all adapters must be ACTIVE (contain signal re-drivers) or the third display will not light up with the second in place (each will light up by itself).

Booker22

Level 1

0 points

Apr 21, 2013 3:38 AM in response to kevloucat

If you are getting Kernel Panics when booting up...try doing a Safe Boot by holding down the Shift key until you see a status bar on the bottom of your screen. If it gets past the Kernel Panic then you know it is an issue with a Driver you have installed for something you have running on your tower.

I just updated to 10.8.2 from 10.6.8 and I started getting kernel panics...I thought it might have been a driver for my GT120 card I had installed. So I did a Safe Boot and installed the latest drivers for my card, and it kept giving me kernel panics.

After doing a little research I found out it was a driver for my Sonnet E3 SxS card reader. If any of you use the Sonnet QIO card readers, you will have the same problem.

Follow this link and it will walk you through the steps to do a Recovery Boot to remove the driver.

It took me a minute to figure out how to correctly type out the sequence in Terminal, but it worked for me and I no longer have Kernel Panics!

http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb?cat=402&expand=_a2&action=b693#b693

Apr 22, 2013 12:50 PM in response to kevloucat

5770 installed...here we go...

macbitz

Level 1

14 points

Apr 26, 2013 9:08 AM in response to kevloucat

Early 2008 Mac Pro (MacPro3,1) OS X 10.8.3 (12D78), NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT driving 2 x BenQ 1920x1080 monitors, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 driving a Samsung 1680x1050 monitor, 12Gb RAM, and so on...

Machine was rock solid for years, not a single crash and now this - after upgrading to 10.8.2 started getting multiple KPs a day but the 10.8.2 supplemental update seemed to fix it. Then on to 10.8.3 and the KPs are back (sometimes as many as 3 a day) and no sign of a fix.

Need to run 3 monitors as I do customer support and need 2 monitors dedicated to that while I use the 3rd for my OS X desktop. Really don't want to splash out on 5770 cards in the hope that it'll stop the KPs, would sooner invest the money in something new. Such a shame though because I was patting myself on the back over how Apple were still supporting a 2008 vintage Mac in Mountain Lion whereas the reality seems to be that they've got more important things to do now, and what is a perfectly serviceable machine gets relegated for want of what is probably a simple software fix.

Apr 26, 2013 10:16 AM in response to macbitz

Two NVIDIA graphics cards have been a problem in 10.8 when both were GT120s. Perhpas you are stepping on the same land mine.

I think the Apple-firmware 5770 for about US$250 may be inevitable.

r winn

Level 1

4 points

Apr 26, 2013 1:49 PM in response to kevloucat

May have found a solution to dual GeForce 120 cards causing ML kenel panics in early 2009 pros. Nvidia has new driver bundle for mac 120s on their site. Just installed and fewer beachballs. Fingers crossed! New drivers dated 3/15/13

Apr 26, 2013 2:58 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

I have not been able to find such an adaptor. Maybe they don't exist. To be crystal clear, I'm hoping to connect my 3rd 24" LED to the DVI port on the 5770 so I can remove the remaining GeForce 120.

Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:

I'm going to order a MiniDV (female) to DVI (male) adaptor and try running my 3rd monitor on the 5770's DVI port.

If using more than ONE such adapter, all adapters must be ACTIVE (contain signal re-drivers) or the third display will not light up with the second in place (each will light up by itself).

Apr 26, 2013 3:23 PM in response to cryptomagic

cryptomagic-

Does that display have Mini DisplayPort input?

If so, these are solutions:

http://www.amazon.com/Atlona-Technologies-AT-DP200-Signal-Converter/dp/B002JQPRP G

http://store.apple.com/us/product/H5236ZM/A/kanex-c247d-single-link-dvi-to-mini- displayport-converter?fnode=53&fs=m.productKind%3Ddisplay_adapters

Diagnosing cause of kernel panic on a Mac Pro