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MacPro freezes. Cursor moves but all is locked. Need to do a hard reboot

Hello Everyone,

I need your help in trying to figure out why my MacPro in the last 3 days has locked up twice. I just happend this morning again. What I get is a frozen screen. I can move the cursor, but clicking, or using the keyboard has not effect. I also noticed that the time on the screen is not updating as well. I need to press and hold the power button to reboot.

When I check the console log I see the following info... Note that the screen froze at 6:18 if that is of any help

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 2008 Mac Pro 2.8Ghz, 8 Cores. 16GB

Posted on Oct 4, 2013 8:43 AM

19 replies

Linc Davis

Level 10

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Oct 10, 2013 8:24 PM in response to Tony Spina

The FIPS messages are normal. Ignore them.

Oct 10, 2013 8:29 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks, Linc. I don't run 10.8, and I did not realize that was normal. My mistake.

The hatter

Level 9

60,990 points

Oct 11, 2013 9:41 AM in response to Tony Spina

if you do need NTFS, they by all means ditch MacFuse and others in favor of Paragon which is supported and well maintained and always being updated. If, of course you need to mount and read externals for one, or of course to write to NTFS. They also have their universal driver, and one for HFS+ in Windows.

Mar 1, 2015 9:06 PM in response to Linc Davis

Hi Linc,

I know this is an old thread. But I have been having similar problems involving my macbook pro.

I ran your terminal test using:

And I got text that appeared in TextEdit.

I would appreciate if you could let me know what this means:

Tue Feb 24 02:32:23 Nicks-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification timeout (pid 493, iTunes)

Tue Feb 24 22:02:07 Nicks-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Max reconnect time: 30 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Volumes/Sonos HD Library

Tue Feb 24 23:03:07 Nicks-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Max reconnect time: 30 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Volumes/Sonos HD Library

Wed Feb 25 23:55:31 Nicks-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: disk1: I/O error.

Wed Feb 25 23:55:33 Nicks-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: disk1: I/O error.

Fri Feb 27 18:04:44 Nicks-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Previous Shutdown Cause: -60

MacPro freezes. Cursor moves but all is locked. Need to do a hard reboot