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Troubleshoting help needed: My iMac keeps crashing and restarting with a report detail: "spinlock application timed out" What can I do to fix this?timed out"

Troubleshooting help needed: My iMac keeps crashing and restarting with a notice: "Spinlock application timed out" What can I do?

iMac intel-based, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Sep 23, 2012 12:39 PM

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Sep 23, 2012 2:25 PM in response to rahneo

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.


Select the most recent panic log under System Diagnostic Reports. Post the contents — the text, please, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header and body of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don't post shutdownStall, spin, or hang reports.

Troubleshoting help needed: My iMac keeps crashing and restarting with a report detail: "spinlock application timed out" What can I do to fix this?timed out"

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