OS X 10.8.2 freezes frequently

One possibility is a third party software conflict.

Does this happen for a different user, e.g., Guest?

Does this happen in Safe Mode ?

charlie

Well, it could be that some software you installed previously became broken with 10.8.2.

Do you use Parallels or VM Fusion?

Your issue sounds crazy! Exe files shouldn't mean anything to a OS X unless you use parallels or vm fusion but even then I am not sure whether you can launch a windows app by clicking on the exe in the finder. I have parallels but I always use it in separate window and I never launch apps from outside window. I will take a look tomorow.

Agreed. I was going to also suggest some software which is designed to interact with windows files, e.g, virtualization stuff.

I use PD 8.0 but unfortunatelly I can't help you because I haven't upgraded to 10.8.2. I learned my lesson after the upgrade to Mountain Lion (had bad issues with dual monitors). Since then I don't trust anymore the Apple upgrades and I decided to do the upgrades after a month or so.

I suggest that you try muCommander (free, http://www.mucommander.com/) and see if you have the same problem with it. I personally don't like the osx finder app, and I always use muCommander. On the Windows side I use Altap Salamander (commercial, http://www.altap.cz/) instead of windows explorer. I wish they had a mac version. I don't know what I would do without Altap Salamander, it is an awesome product. There is also a text based file manager available for linux and probably osx called Midnight Commander but I have never tried it under OSX. All these file managers originate from the old Norton Commander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander).

Other ideas would be: check the parallels forums and eventually contact their support. You could also uninstall PD 8.0 and see if the problem persists and then install it back. When you uninstall it should not delete your vms.

Let us know how it goes.

@Marc197102:

When you say the "finder detects an windows executable file" do you mean when the finder displays the executable file (i.e. you go to a folder and the folder contans exe files) or, do you mean that you click on an exe file then it crashes or it takes a long time until something happens and OSX freezes? Is your VM running when you do this?

Thanks

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.

Step 1

Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Post the messages from the time of the last crash, if any — the text, please, not a screenshot.

When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.

PLEASE DO NOT INDISCRIMINATELY DUMP THOUSANDS OF LINES FROM THE LOG INTO A MESSAGE. If you do that, I will not respond.

Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out by search-and-replace in a text editor before posting.

Step 2

Still in the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the process. The report name starts with the name of the crashed process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

I also have an issue with freezes since the upgrade to mountain lion. Can not really link this to .EXE files.

The latest log-file entrys after a freeze:

2012-09-24 06:06:13,000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(1073) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd

2012-09-24 06:06:15,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:06:19,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:06:23,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:06:31,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:06:35,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:06:39,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:06:43,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:06:47,918 WindowServer[85]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: no lock state data

2012-09-24 06:08:31,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:08:58,931 WindowServer[85]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Dock" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.

2012-09-24 06:08:58,932 WindowServer[85]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Dock" after 3.41 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 3.41 seconds)

2012-09-24 06:09:06,815 WindowServer[85]: CGXRegisterWindowWithSystemStatusBar: window b already registered

2012-09-24 06:09:14,348 CVMServer[101]: Check-in to the service com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64 failed. This is likely because you have either unloaded the job or the MachService has the ResetAtClose attribute specified in the launchd.plist. If present, this attribute should be removed.

2012-09-24 06:09:14,461 CVMServer[101]: Check-in to the service com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64 failed. This is likely because you have either unloaded the job or the MachService has the ResetAtClose attribute specified in the launchd.plist. If present, this attribute should be removed.

2012-09-24 06:09:32,000 kernel[0]: USBF: 5710.739 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff802771c000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfa, timing out! (Addr: 3, EP: 0)

2012-09-24 06:09:36,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:09:40,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:09:44,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:09:48,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:09:52,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:09:56,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:10:00,000 kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::_deviceGetReport - DeviceRequest for reportID 0x0 returned with result 0xe000404f - retrying

2012-09-24 06:10:18,300 mdworker[1099]: Unable to talk to lsboxd

2012-09-24 06:10:18,331 mdworker[1098]: Unable to talk to lsboxd

2012-09-24 06:10:18,000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(1100) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd

2012-09-24 06:10:19,172 sandboxd[1100]: ([1099]) mdworker(1099) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd

2012-09-24 06:10:19,234 sandboxd[1100]: ([1098]) mdworker(1098) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd

Do you use kaspersky anti-virus (kav)? There was another post reporting the same issue as yours and after uninstalling kav things got back to normal.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4321161?answerId=19700674022#19700674022