disnoted causing iMac to restart daily! HELP!!

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Hi there, Every day when I sitdown to my iMac, it has restarted I get the message "Your computer has been restarted because of a problem". So I check the error and the process that is causing the issue is a process called "disnoted". Checking up on the process, it looks like it is the process that handles the notifications. I have turned off all notifications that I can from the notification centre.  But it is still happening. I have been reporting this error to Apple Daily. Is there a quick way to get to the root of the issue? Any and all help really appreciated. System InfoiMac 27-inch, Mid 2011Processor: 3.4GHz Intel Core 7Memory 16GB 1333Mhz DDR3Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MBSoftware  OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)

Klaus1 · Answer

You are having kernel panics, generally hardware related, often due to faulty RAM.What is a Kernel Panic?http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3742and  http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1892?viewlocale&#x3D;en_UShttp://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2063.htmlMore details here:http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.htmlUseful article on how to avoid and eliminate kernel panics here:http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10344626-263.html?tag&#x3D;mfiredir

Linc Davis · Answer

If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out these instructions.   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 icon grid.Select the most recent panic log under System Diagnostic Reports. Post the entire 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&#x27;t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang reports.

adanmh · Answer

Panic Report as followsInterval Since Last Panic Report:  1428614 secÿPanics Since Last Report:          4ÿAnonymous UUID:     ÿSat Dec 29 03:23:10 2012ÿpanic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff800f6b7bd5): Kernel trap at 0xffffff800f619233, type 13&#x3D;general protection, registers:ÿCR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000100483000, CR3: 0x000000002537700c, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0ÿRAX: 0x0000f44000001100, RBX: 0xffffff8030757c80, RCX: 0x0000000003000106, RDX: 0x0000000000000003ÿRSP: 0xffffff81e1823ea0, RBP: 0xffffff81e1823f00, RSI: 0xffffff8030757c84, RDI: 0x0000000000000004ÿR8:  0x0000000000000002, R9:  0xffffff804ab7b550, R10: 0x000000000000f474, R11: 0x0000000000000206ÿR12: 0xffffff81af535000, R13: 0xffffff804ab7b550, R14: 0x00007fe6b9816000, R15: 0x0000000000000000ÿRFL: 0x0000000000010246, RIP: 0xffffff800f619233, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000010ÿFault CR2: 0x0000000100483000, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x0ÿÿBacktrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Addressÿ0xffffff81e1823b40 : 0xffffff800f61d626 ÿ0xffffff81e1823bb0 : 0xffffff800f6b7bd5 ÿ0xffffff81e1823d80 : 0xffffff800f6ce4ed ÿ0xffffff81e1823da0 : 0xffffff800f619233 ÿ0xffffff81e1823f00 : 0xffffff800f619724 ÿ0xffffff81e1823f70 : 0xffffff800f6a5b16 ÿ0xffffff81e1823fb0 : 0xffffff800f6ced53 ÿÿBSD process name corresponding to current thread: distnotedÿÿMac OS version:ÿ12C60ÿÿKernel version:ÿDarwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64ÿKernel UUID: 69A5853F-375A-3EF4-9247-478FD0247333ÿKernel slide:     0x000000000f400000ÿKernel text base: 0xffffff800f600000ÿSystem model name: iMac12,2 (Mac-942B59F58194171B)ÿÿSystem uptime in nanoseconds: 31337172517698ÿlast loaded kext at 27634649535495: com.apple.driver.DiskImages.SparseDiskImage     344 (addr 0xffffff7f91809000, size 16384)ÿlast unloaded kext at 27712928733457: com.apple.driver.DiskImages.KernelBacked     344 (addr 0xffffff7f917dd000, size 73728)ÿloaded 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Linc Davis · Answer

Any or all of the following third-party system modifications may be contributing to your problem:VirusBarrierOpenVPN client (?)SX-Virtual LinkLogMeInIf the panic is recurrent, I suggest you uninstall them, one at a time, according to the developers&#x27; instructions, to see whether you can identify which one is at fault. A conflict between modifications may be involved. Reboot and test after each uninstallation. Start with "VirusBarrier," which is the only one of the modifications that&#x27;s completely useless.Back up all data before making any changes.