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How can I find out what caused a "kernel panic" and/or How can I repair it?
The computer works fine once I start it up but everytime I go to shut it down the warning comes up and I have to hold the power button down to shut it down.
If I copy a backup hard drive from an emergency HD disk will that repair the issue?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), loaded print scanner driver
A kernel panic occurs when the Mac OS X Kernel gets into a fix from which it cannot proceed.
THOUSANDS of individual problems, both Hardware and Software can cause such issues to occur.
If you are experiencing a kernel panic, retrieve the log and post the text here for Readers to help.
What is a Kernel Panic?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3742
and http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1892?viewlocale=en_US
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2063.html
More details here:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html
Useful articles on how to avoid and eliminate kernel panics here:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10344626-263.html?tag=mfiredir
http://www.macworld.com/article/2027201/how-to-troubleshoot-a-kernel-panic.html# tk.nl_mwhelp
Most often its the graphics card or its drivers. Other times its the memory. Usually hardware driven.
you would of course want a known clean system or create one - on a new drive or newly erased, not from one you had.
trouble with these freezes is the compound and tend to cause more problems potentially to the disk directory.
a clean system, a stripped bare bones machine, and that way eliminate most of the software side, directory and such.
corrupt NVRAM can sneak in there during all this. USB devices are notorious.
RAM and graphic cards, heat also.
Rule everything out , then add them back one by one slowly, gradually.
What was the last thing before this happened to trigger it? how long has it been happening?
Do you have a bootable backup clone of your system - from before this began happening?
Thanks everybody for your help!! - I have a harddrive that I recently coppied before any of this started. I have disconnected all my peripherals and only have Mac keyboard and mouse. It still is happening every time I shut down. The last thing I remember doing is loading a print/scan driver from brother's site. After which I hah some problems because the printer/scanner still wouldn't work. I have now dumped the files for Printer & Scanner and the twain plugin.
If I switch the hard drive for my recently cloned hard drive and then erase the current drive abd re=clone that drive with the old drive will that work?
I am inserting the panic code from the crash report.
Wed Apr 9 18:02:48 2014
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x35f16d): "tcp_lock: so=0x14876860 NO PCB! lr=0x4ce4a1 lrh= 2:35bad1 4b7cb8:4b7d17 2:35bad1 4a17ba:4a1875 \n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.15.3/bsd/netinet/tcp_subr.c:2118
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x7eddbb98 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x7eddbbcc 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x7eddbbe8 : 0x35f16d (0x5b47a4 0x14876860 0x4ce4a1 0x8797c0)
0x7eddbc18 : 0x4b574b (0x14876860 0x0 0x4ce4a1 0x0)
0x7eddbc38 : 0x4ce4a1 (0x14876860 0x0 0x7eddbc88 0x47b0ad)
0x7eddbc68 : 0x4ce6fd (0xffe43f0 0x1082cf80 0x7eddbc98 0x11c90c00)
0x7eddbc88 : 0x861365f6 (0x3ed 0x1 0x47ae07 0x0)
0x7eddbca8 : 0x861369c2 (0x11c90c00 0x10 0x11c90c00 0x11f4e604)
0x7eddbcc8 : 0x47ae1e (0x11c84104 0x1 0x11071e50 0x0)
0x7eddbcf8 : 0x4b5b1a (0x10831854 0x1082cf80 0x0 0x0)
0x7eddbd18 : 0x4b7b2c (0x10831854 0x9 0x0 0x47af51)
0x7eddbd78 : 0x4b7cdb (0x10831854 0x1 0x7eddbe08 0x2345f4)
0x7eddbd98 : 0x473bb7 (0x10831854 0x7eddbde8 0x2 0x0)
0x7eddbe08 : 0x474fad (0x1085b2d0 0x118be998 0x11c2d540 0x4869e2)
0x7eddbe48 : 0x480fc3 (0x11c2d540 0x8 0x0 0x11c47b7c)
0x7eddbeb8 : 0x22ed26 (0x11c2d540 0x1 0x11c2d540 0xffe00000)
0x7eddbee8 : 0x22f152 (0x11c47e3c 0x2c977ae7 0x7eddbf68 0x11c2d540)
0x7eddbf28 : 0x22fb5d (0x11c47e5c 0x11c47b7c 0x7eddbfc8 0x2ab8c3)
0x7eddbf68 : 0x21943f (0x1 0x11c4be00 0x7eddbfc8 0x4f82fb)
0x7eddbfa8 : 0x2aacb4 (0xffffffff 0x1 0x7eddbfc8 0x11c03064)
0x7eddbfc8 : 0x2a1976 (0x0 0x1 0x10 0x11c03064)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
net.kromtech.kext.Firewall(2.3.6)@0x86135000->0x86138fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: MacKeeper Helper
Mac OS version:
10K549
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro1,1 (Mac-F4208DC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 3905428195236
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 2.0 (addr 0xe85000, size 0x12288) - last unloaded 127012930670
loaded kexts:
net.kromtech.kext.Firewall 2.3.6 - last loaded 87830595106
com.symantec.kext.fw 1.0.3f5
com.symantec.kext.SymAPComm 11.1.2f17
com.hzsystems.terminus.driver 4
com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower 1.6.6
com.symantec.kext.pf 4.1.1f13
com.symantec.kext.ips 3.2f8
com.symantec.kext.internetSecurity 1.3.2f5
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.3d0
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.7
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.20
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.0.5f14
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.57
com.apple.GeForce 6.3.6
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleMCEDriver 1.1.9
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMeromProfile 19
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 4.7.0a1
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.5.1
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 2.6.8
com.apple.BootCache 31.1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 1.6.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet 2.1.3b1
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.7.3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 4.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 142.6.0
com.apple.security.sandbox 1
com.apple.security.quarantine 0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 2.1.14
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 142.6.0
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction 17
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.0.5f14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction 14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction 20
com.apple.nvidia.nv40hal 6.3.6
com.apple.NVDAResman 6.3.6
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.2.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 4.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 74.2
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.3fc2
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.0.5f14
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.0.5f14
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily 41
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.0d5
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.7.0a1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDMouse 162
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 4.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse 162
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 3.9.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 2.6.8
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.6.1
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 402.1
com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 2.6.8
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 1.10
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.6
com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.2.6
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 4.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.4.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.6.6
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 6
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 289.1
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.6.3
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.3.6
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.3.0
t he whole idea of a clone backup is to USE the clone, you don't need to erase adn restore it. You may want to later.
You can't repair a drive w/o booting from another system drive, which is another reason to have multiple boot drives.
System boot drive / working clone backup / clone from last month / small emergency maintenance drive perhaps
OS X is small enough that all that is needed is generally a 40GB partition, or a 100GB SSD, a slice off any drive can serve as a place to have a bootable alternate sytem backup/clone
And you can use a sparse disk image
All of the data should not be on the boot drive. Free up space, improves performance to have it on a 'data drive" and keep the system as "system only" for OS and apps, and a small part of user account ( ~/ ) "/Library"
Takes minutes to update a clone, and always able to option boot to a working backup.
There is also no "master" or "have to boot from the drive bay #1 (or zero) so again, no need to switch. Only if using USB2 or FW400 due to slow boot and speed would you.
I put a small 120GB partition on my 2TB TimeMachine drive for convenience and for emergency and because it is handy to have, and that is more than enough space. Just shrink a partition.
In Lion and later there is a Recovery Partition but it is limited in what you can do and tools available. Also, Safe boot has improved and I would always after a failed shutdown, invoke either another boot drive or a Safe Boot.
Some of the very invasive so-called protection software has stopped your Mac dead in its tracks.
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
net.kromtech.kext.Firewall(2.3.6)@0x86135000->0x86138fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: MacKeeper Helper
net.kromtech.kext.Firewall 2.3.6 - last loaded 87830595106
com.symantec.kext.fw 1.0.3f5
com.symantec.kext.SymAPComm 11.1.2f17
com.hzsystems.terminus.driver 4
com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower 1.6.6
com.symantec.kext.pf 4.1.1f13
com.symantec.kext.ips 3.2f8
com.symantec.kext.internetSecurity 1.3.2f5
The software you have installed is far, far worse that anything it could possibly protect you from. You have also broken a very important rule: NEVER install Multiple different protection software -- each one thinks the other is an intruder.
If you want a trouble-free system, you will need to remove all this stuff and run plain Mac OS X, no invasive add-ons.
Thank you for your help!!
What causes a kernel panic?
