Diagnosing cause of kernel panic on a Mac Pro

It's definitely a weird bug. I myself have been using the latest versions of all the extensions, i.e. the ones included in 10.8.2 Supplemental, including IOGraphicsFamily.kext 2.3.5 and IOPCIFamily.kext 2.7.2, and there have been days when I have had two and even three KPs, but on the other hand I have now been using my Mac for 10 straight days without a single KP. This does not appear to be connected to anything in my use of the machine, since I have been doing the same kind of tasks all that time.

(10.8.2 should definitely have updated IOGraphicsFamily.kext to 2.3.5 on your machine. I find it strange that it has not, unless there is something different in your machine configuration that makes the updater refrain from updating it.)

I have another on-going issue (the Finder is quite sluggish, for no apparent reason), but I don't dare restart my computer, lest the KPs start occurring daily again!

There are tons of people with this sort of problems (me included).

I'm wondering if the common config of all of us is multi-monitor / multi graphics cards setup?

See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4196488?start=0&tstart=0

Any of you brave souls tried installing the new Nvidia drivers released on 10.1.12?

This post suggests that they may be experimental.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/257-nvidia-releases-mountain-lion-10-8-2-graphics-driv ers.html

But, they are certainly available on the Nvidia web site.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-304.00.05f02-driver.html

I have 3 GForce 120s which are supposed to be covered by this upgrade.

Note: There is a second install for CUDA

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda-mac-driver.html

I have no idea how to query what my current driver versions are so I'm a little nervous but I'm seriously tired of the panics.

What the heck. I went for it and did the the upgrades. We'll see how it goes.

3 days in. So far so good. I'm still on IOGraphicsFamily.kext 2.3.4. If things stay stable for a few more days, I will return to 2.3.5.

I have a Mac Pro 2008, from Snow Leopard I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I had this type of crashes almost daily. Then I did a clean install of ML, with very little applications. And still those **** crashes were driving me crazy.

I went back to a clean install of Snow Leopard and my computer is rock solid after two months not a single crash.

I think ML is optimized for newer computers. I miss iCloud support but I decided to use gmail anyway.

My two cents.

Seems 2008 is not just "some models" but every owner has similar story now about ML.

And of course dual boot for those times you do need ML around (keep it handy on a partition or somewhere).

Too bad ML can't be run in an SL VM instead of the other way around.

And this is the kind of thing, not whether there was a real 2012 6,1 model, but is there even real support for a 4 yr old model that was suppose to offer the first (tentative,, experimental?) 64-bit mode support.

5 more days without a Kernal Panic. This is the longest I've run since upgrading to ML. In my case (GForce 120 series cards), I'm ready to declare "upgrade your video drivers directly from nVidia" as the solution. I'm confident this will work for any of the CUDA cards.

I installed the drivers yesterday, and got a KP today. So I don't think that they are the solution. Your 5 days without a KP might just be a fluke. I've gone 10 days without a KP and then have had two or three in a single day. It's totally unpredictable. But I don't think the drivers from NVIDIA make any difference.

Bummer.

It really does seem to have worked for me. 5 more days. No reboots. No KPs. I'm a developer / designer and I stress the heck out of my machine. It's now 14 days without a KP. Here was my last KP to make sure we are getting the same alert.

Tue Nov 6 11:37:16 2012

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8010851c07): "IOGMD: not wired for the IODMACommand"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/iokit/Kernel/IOMemoryDescriptor.c pp:1424

I have 3 GeForce 120 cards on 3 LED Cinema Displays on an Early 2009 Mac Pro

Still going OK for you? I am going nuts here. After a 5 day reprieve (for whatever reason), I have had 2, 3 or 4 KPs per day for the past few days, not doing anything different. I've just tried to reinstall the NVIDIA driver (1.3.4.0 [304.00.05f02]) and have also installed the CUDA driver, but it has not helped.

I'm getting sick of this and have ordered a dual-link DVI to MiniDisplayPort adapter, so that I can connect both my 30" screens to the same GPU and remove the other one if necessary. It's expensive, but I can't go on with several KPs per day like this. I am really disappointed in Apple's treatment of this issue. I can't believe it's been several months now without any sign of a fix.

If things are OK for you, I'd really be curious to know what's different between your system and mine. Mine is an early 2009 Mac Pro with TWO GeForce 120 cards driving two 30" displays.

I have the following system extensions in System/Library/Extensions/:

CUDA.kext [no version info]

GeForce.kext 8.1.0

GeForceGA.plugin 8.1.0 (304.00.05f02)

GeForceGLDriver.bundle 8.1.0 (304.00.05f02)

GeForceVADriver.bundle 8.1.0 (304.00.05f02)

IOGraphicsFamily.kext 2.3.5

IONDRVSupport.kext 2.3.5

IOPCIFamily.kext 2.7.2

NVDAGF100Hal.kext 1.3.4.0 (304.00.05f02)

NVDAGK100Hal.kext 1.3.4.0 (304.00.05f02)

NVDANV50Hal.kext 1.3.4.0 (304.00.05f02)

NVDAResman.kext 1.3.4.0 (304.00.05f02)

System.kext 12.2.0

Anything different from what you have?

I get the exact same alert in each KP:

panic(cpu 8 caller 0xffffff8005a51c07): "IOGMD: not wired for the IODMACommand"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/iokit/Kernel/IOMemoryDescriptor.c pp:1424

and then:

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.NVDAResman(3.0.4)[BC567F28-823E-3FB4-A726-F13C4041C44D]@0xffffff7f85d 28000->0xffffff7f86036fff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f85c96000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f85d14000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f85cd1000

com.apple.GeForce(8.0.1)[90A7ED58-4F3E-38B4-8596-EB1D65EA1B85]@0xffffff7f871c30 00->0xffffff7f87286fff

dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.0.4)[BC567F28-823E-3FB4-A726-F13C4041C44D]@0xffffff7f85d 28000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f85d14000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f85c96000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f85cd1000

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface(86.0.3)[578CEAAD-1465-3B29-B34F-09586288ED88]@0xfffff f7f86dfc000->0xffffff7f86e0dfff

Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

Can anybody see what is cauing my IMAC to panic? I have upgrade the RAM to 4gb and now the technician does not know what the cause may be. I go through about 10 panics a day now

thanks so much

kind regards

m

Interval Since Last Panic Report: 17962 sec

Panics Since Last Report: 12

Anonymous UUID: FBC57662-031B-73E1-5672-5A85752DAADA

Fri Nov 30 18:14:02 2012

Machine-check capabilities 0x0000000000000806:

family: 6 model: 23 stepping: 6 microcode: 1548

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8135 @ 2.40GHz

6 error-reporting banks

threshold-based error status present

Processor 0: machine-check status 0x0000000000000004:

machine-check in progress

MCA error-reporting registers:

IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x1000000000000000 invalid

IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0000000000000000 invalid

IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid

IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0xb620004a0202010a valid

MCA error code: 0x010a

Model specific error code: 0x0202

Other information: 0x0000004a

Threshold-based status: Undefined

Status bits:

Processor context corrupt

ADDR register valid

Error enabled

Uncorrected error

IA32_MC3_ADDR(0x40e): 0x000000006c5f7900

IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000011 invalid

IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0xb20000300c000e0f valid

MCA error code: 0x0e0f

Model specific error code: 0x0c00

Other information: 0x00000030

Threshold-based status: Undefined

Status bits:

Processor context corrupt

Error enabled

Uncorrected error

Processor 1: machine-check status 0x0000000000000005:

restart IP valid

machine-check in progress

MCA error-reporting registers:

IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x1000000000000000 invalid

IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0000000000000000 invalid

IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid

IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0xb620004a0202010a valid

MCA error code: 0x010a

Model specific error code: 0x0202

Other information: 0x0000004a

Threshold-based status: Undefined

Status bits:

Processor context corrupt

ADDR register valid

Error enabled

Uncorrected error

IA32_MC3_ADDR(0x40e): 0x000000006c5f7900

IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000011 invalid

IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0xb200001802000e0f valid

MCA error code: 0x0e0f

Model specific error code: 0x0200

Other information: 0x00000018

Threshold-based status: Undefined

Status bits:

Processor context corrupt

Error enabled

Uncorrected error

panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff8001eb83c9): "Machine Check at 0xffffff7f83affc00, registers:\n" "CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x000000010c42a868, CR3: 0x0000000049497000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660\n" "RAX: 0xffffff7f83b0efc8, RBX: 0x7fffffffffffffff, RCX: 0xffffff800d85f600, RDX: 0xffffff800d85f600\n" "RSP: 0xffffff808144bcc0, RBP: 0xffffff808144bd70, RSI: 0x0000000000000002, RDI: 0xffffff807aefd148\n" "R8: 0x00000000e0000000, R9: 0x7ffffffffffffffe, R10: 0x0000000000000000, R11: 0xffffff800247de88\n" "R12: 0x0000000000000000, R13: 0xffffff807aefd148, R14: 0x0000000000016917, R15: 0xffffff800c97a400\n" "RFL: 0x0000000000000082, RIP: 0xffffff7f83affc00, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010\n" "Error code: 0x0000000000000000\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/osfmk/i386/trap_native.c: 280

Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff807ae8dec0 : 0xffffff8001e1d626

0xffffff807ae8df30 : 0xffffff8001eb83c9

0xffffff807ae8e0a0 : 0xffffff8001ecedbf

0xffffff808144bd70 : 0xffffff8001eb8c1b

0xffffff808144bd90 : 0xffffff8001e2f1c3

0xffffff808144bdd0 : 0xffffff8001e2dc81

0xffffff808144be30 : 0xffffff8001e2d9f3

0xffffff808144be70 : 0xffffff8001e1310b

0xffffff808144be90 : 0xffffff8001e1970b

0xffffff808144bf00 : 0xffffff8001ea59be

0xffffff808144bfb0 : 0xffffff8001eceafe

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Microsoft Word

Mac OS version:

12C60

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: 69A5853F-375A-3EF4-9247-478FD0247333

Kernel slide: 0x0000000001c00000

Kernel text base: 0xffffff8001e00000

System model name: iMac8,1 (Mac-F226BEC8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 901235973136

last loaded kext at 615928279620: com.apple.filesystems.smbfs 1.8 (addr 0xffffff7f83e0a000, size 229376)

last unloaded kext at 136230037150: com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 3.0.1 (addr 0xffffff7f83d23000, size 8192)

loaded kexts:

com.apple.filesystems.smbfs 1.8

com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch 75.15

com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60

com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0

com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.0.9f33

com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0

com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl 3.2.11

com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.3.1f2

com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC 1.0.0

com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0

com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.0.9f33

com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.6.0

com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.2.3

com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.10

com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.33

com.apple.kext.AMDFramebuffer 8.0.0

com.apple.ATIRadeonX2000 8.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 320.15

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1

com.apple.BootCache 34

com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.5.1

com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.2.2

com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2 3.2.3b1

com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224 600.36.17

com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.9.6

com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.4.1

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 5.2.5

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 5.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 5.2.5

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.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver 4.0.9f33

com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver 235.28

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.5

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 86.0.3

com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.6

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.0.9f33

com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.3.1f2

com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.9fc10

com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.6

com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0

com.apple.iokit.AppleBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.0.9f33

com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.3.1f2

com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.3.1f2

com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.4d2

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 5.2.0d16

com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.2.11

com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.0.4

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.10d0

com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.5

com.apple.kext.AMD2400Controller 8.0.0

com.apple.kext.AMDSupport 8.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.3.5

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDKeyboard 165.5

com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 165.5

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 5.2.5

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 5.2.5

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 5.2.5

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.IOATAPIProtocolTransport 3.5.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.5.1

com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 500.15

com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.0

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.5.5

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.2.1

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 5.2.5

com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.1

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 5.4.0

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 28.21

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.6

com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.7.2

com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4

com.apple.kec.corecrypto 1.0

Model: iMac8,1, BootROM IM81.00C1.B00, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.29f1

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT, ATI Radeon HD 2400, PCIe, 128 MB

Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 800 MHz, 0x7F7F7F0B00000000, 0x4E5432475436345538484430424E2D414420

Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 800 MHz, 0x7F7F7F0B00000000, 0x4E5432475436345538484430424E2D414420

AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8C), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.16)

Bluetooth: Version 4.0.9f33 10885, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports

Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1

Serial ATA Device: WDC WD2500AAJS-40VWA1, 250.06 GB

Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-875

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

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

USB Device: Built-in iSight, apple_vendor_id, 0x8502, 0xfd400000 / 2

USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x1a100000 / 2

USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x820f, 0x1a110000 / 3

USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0x5d100000 / 2

That panic is a machine-check. Those are Hardware Problems.

You have no non-Apple kernel extensions added, so this is an all-Apple problem.

It is conceivable that a memory problem caused this, but I think you may have a bad processor or bad cache.

Was that an Apple technician? Did your technician run diagnostics while he was there? If not, you should.

This could be a case for the basketball rule (it is the fault of the guy who touched it last). Check to be sure those new RAMs are correctly seated.

@Pierre, I thought I was out of the woods, but...

Interval Since Last Panic Report: 617514 sec

Panics Since Last Report: 1

Anonymous UUID: 4F6E1FDA-6881-7F1F-3157-7446C0A0F460

Mon Nov 26 09:42:30 2012

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff800a651c07): "IOGMD: not wired for the IODMACommand"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/iokit/Kernel/IOMemoryDescriptor.c pp:1424

There was another CUDA update from nVidia so I applied that and I've been OK for 5 days. I'm starting to wonder if that is actually fixing anything.

I'll try to check this thread more often. How do I generate that list of extensions you provided?

I'm a programmer and this is my primary machine so I'm motivated to get this fixed. Have you posted it on any nVidia forums?

Exact same type of thing here:

Sat Dec 1 09:46:25 2012

panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff800c851c07): "IOGMD: not wired for the IODMACommand"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/iokit/Kernel/IOMemoryDescriptor.c pp:1424

[...]

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f8cb68 000->0xffffff7f8ce6afff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f8cad6000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f8cb54000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f8cb11000

com.apple.GeForce(8.0)[2E56ED9A-D848-3795-9E52-56BABDC9000C]@0xffffff7f8da12000 ->0xffffff7f8dad4fff

dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f8cb 68000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f8cb54000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f8cad6000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f8cb11000

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface(86.0.3)[578CEAAD-1465-3B29-B34F-09586288ED88]@0xfffff f7f8d64b000->0xffffff7f8d65cfff

BSD process name corresponding to current thread:

Mac Pro, Earl 2009, 2x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB, OSX 10.8.2, three monitors.

However mine is only happening every few weeks, which makes it rather hard to track down. I'm suspecting it something to do with VRAM - some kind of video driver problem being revealed at random by particular usage patterns. I usually have lots of windows open, mostly Chrome.