Hi, I was wondering if anyone has encountered this?

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone has encountered this?

I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro. Since I've installed Mountain Lion, the following has happened twice. I shut off the computer, sometime later turned it on and during startup (right after desktop appeared) it shut off. No reboot loop, nothing like that, it simply shut off. Both times I entered into safe mode by holding Shift key. In safe mode I basically did nothing, just rebooted the computer, and voile, it is working like charm now.

What do you think this is? In disk utility I checked all my partitions - no error was found on any.... What my concern is if it happened twice, it'll happen more (since I don't know what the cause was, nor what fixed it). Any ideas?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 25, 2013 12:50 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 25, 2013 1:04 PM in response to gyongyosim

Couple things you could try

Reset the SMC and PRAM

Have you run a Apple Hadware Test?

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Answer 2

sanjampet

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Jan 25, 2013 1:04 PM in response to gyongyosim

If it runs fine in safe mode, it is a 3rd party application causing it. You don't have MacKeeper do you?

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Answer 3

Jan 25, 2013 1:05 PM in response to sanjampet

Very good point, overlooked that !

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gyongyosim Author

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Jan 25, 2013 1:25 PM in response to sanjampet

Yes, it is running superfine in safe mode. And no, I don't have mackeeper. But during my browsing the internet sometimes it does open a "popunder" browser window advertising MacKeeper but never downloaded that.

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sanjampet

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Jan 25, 2013 2:07 PM in response to gyongyosim

spotlight search your MBP for anything MacKeeper, or Zeobot, it sure seems as though it got there somehow? (It is insidious) Maybe the installer is "lurking" Also run normal and when it crashes, reboot in safe and check your console and see if it shows anything.

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gyongyosim Author

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Feb 3, 2013 10:38 AM in response to sanjampet

It crashes every 2-3 days now. I then reboot in safe mode, then reboot normal, and it is working fine.

How can I find out which 3rd party program is causing this?

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sanjampet

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Feb 3, 2013 11:35 AM in response to gyongyosim

Try a smc and a pram,to clear it out then go to the console and see if it tells you the offending application.

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gyongyosim Author

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Feb 3, 2013 11:48 AM in response to gyongyosim

I'll try that but to tell you the truth I am not really familiar with Console. What it is displaying is mostly a bunch of gibberish to me, what exactly should I be looking for?

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gyongyosim Author

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Feb 3, 2013 12:11 PM in response to gyongyosim

CrashReports is empty. Where in Console should I be looking?

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sanjampet

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Feb 3, 2013 12:26 PM in response to gyongyosim

Usually the aplication name is included.

It could also be in the right column as well, After clearing the cache will make it easier, things like MacKeeper, and Cleam my Mac...etc should be easy to find, then disable.

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gyongyosim Author

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Feb 3, 2013 12:39 PM in response to sanjampet

Thank you, I'll try that, and see what happens. If any update, I'll come back to you! thank you very much!

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gyongyosim Author

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Feb 3, 2013 1:16 PM in response to gyongyosim

Could you please look into this log? I believe the crash must be in it somewhere...

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: PMAP: PCID enabled

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 546317 free pages and 1550835 wired pages

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: kext submap [0xffffff7f80741000 - 0xffffff8000000000], kernel text [0xffffff8000200000 - 0xffffff8000741000]

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: zone leak detection enabled

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: standard background quantum is 2500 us

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 74

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: TSC Deadline Timer supported and enabled

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: SAFE BOOT DETECTED - only valid OSBundleRequired kexts will be loaded.

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto kext started!

2/3/13 7:10:38.659 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Running kernel space in FIPS MODE

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Plist hmac value is 735d392b68241ef173d81097b1c8ce9ba283521626d1c973ac376838c466757d

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Computed hmac value is 735d392b68241ef173d81097b1c8ce9ba283521626d1c973ac376838c466757d

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS integrity POST test passed!

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES CBC POST test passed!

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS TDES CBC POST test passed!

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES ECB AESNI POST test passed!

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES XTS AESNI POST test passed!

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS SHA POST test passed!

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS HMAC POST test passed!

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS ECDSA POST test passed!

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS DRBG POST test passed!

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS POST passed!

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=0 Enabled

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=2 Enabled

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=1 Enabled

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=4 LocalApicId=3 Enabled

2/3/13 7:10:38.659 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: *** Shutdown logging is enabled. ***

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=5 LocalApicId=255 Disabled

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=6 LocalApicId=255 Disabled

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=7 LocalApicId=255 Disabled

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=8 LocalApicId=255 Disabled

2/3/13 7:11:11.521 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.automountd) Unknown key for boolean: NSSupportsSuddenTermination

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: using 16384 buffer headers and 10240 cluster IO buffer headers

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5]

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: PFM64 (36 cpu) 0xf80000000, 0x80000000

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration begin ]

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: console relocated to 0xf80000000

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: PCI configuration changed (bridge=16 device=4 cardbus=0)

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration end, bridges 12 devices 16 ]

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Turbo Ratios 0046

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 00:59:42 Aug 25 2012) initialization complete

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: mbinit: done [96 MB total pool size, (64/32) split]

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Pthread support ABORTS when sync kernel primitives misused

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 8A5CA940-AD40-39A1-BE24-E5C40C7CBB4E

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: BTCOEXIST off

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: BRCM tunables:

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: pullmode[1] txringsize[ 256] reapmin[ 32] reapcount[ 128]

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: highWaterMark: VO[ 192] VI[ 192] BE[ 192] BK[ 192]

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID 70cd60fffeb91238; max speed s800.

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleIntelPchS eriesAHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOB lockStorageDriver/Hitachi HTS545032B9A302 Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Untitled 1@2

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 3

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: CoreStorageGlobals() boot args = 0x1

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: CoreStorage: fsck_cs has finished for group "47DEFF48-9AC8-4DE6-B3A5-93DD864184B9" with status 0x04

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: thr 0xffffff8007e3caa0 LVG MLV is readonly because metadata is not writable

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: CoreStorageFamily::unlockVEKs() failed to unwrap the vek, status = e00002bc

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Kernel is LP64

2/3/13 7:11:13.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::checkStatus - received Status Packet, Payload 2: device was reinitialized

2/3/13 7:11:13.623 PM com.apple.kextd[11]: Safe boot mode detected; invalidating system extensions caches.

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RJTUK

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Feb 3, 2013 1:20 PM in response to gyongyosim

Hi gyongyosim,

How many charges has your batter had since you got it? to see this open the Apple Menu > About This Mac then click on More Info followed by System Report and select Power from the left hand side.

Apple released a firmware update for MacBook Pro's to fix a problem where some machines would randomly shut-down without warning where the battery has had more than 1,000 charge cycles.

See http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1626 for details and the download.

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gyongyosim Author

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Feb 3, 2013 1:46 PM in response to RJTUK

Hi,

it is only 110, so I don't think it's a battery problem... 😕

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RJTUK

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Feb 3, 2013 1:50 PM in response to gyongyosim

Hi gyongyosim,

No worries, have you installed the firmware update?

I noticed you're not having the problem in Safe Mode, could be an extension issue, if reseting SMC and PRAM has failed along with the firmware update above all I can recommend is backing up and re-installing OS X. Hopefully that will clear the issue.

Since the problem only appears to have happened since upgrading to Mountain Lion something may not have gone through correctly in the update.

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