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cougar337 · Jul 3, 2003, 04:14 PM

It seems I have been having more and more OSX crashes lately. I have a Powerbook G4 667MHz running OS 10.2.6. It seems to crash or freeze every day now. It seems most of my problem started with the 10.2.6 update.

most of the time when I pull up Finder or anyother program for that matter it will freeze. It seems to work for a while but then it locks up. it doesnt seem to be program specific...iTunes, iMovie, Finder, iPhoto, Safari....etc.

I dont know what is causing it or how to correct it. reading through the forums some pople have suggested DiskWarrior, Repairing Permissions and reinstalling. Being a recient "Switcher" I really dont understand most of this and what it does. I do have my orginal OS 10.2.1 disk but I want to avoid reloading everything but I will if I must....Hey I've gotten used to reloading my Windows machine every 6 months anyway!!! I was just hoping that by having a Mac I wouldnt have to do this!

Can someone explain to me how I can correct this?

cougar337 · Jul 3, 2003, 06:08 PM

Update: I wanted to include the log file. The last entry was when the computer unexpectedly just truned off!!!!

Thu Jul 3 10:36:44 2003

panic(cpu 0): lockmgr: pid 460, thread 0x 2e2b7e4, not exclusive lock holder pid 465 thread 0x 2e2e650 unlocking, exclusive count 1
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x0008581C 0x00085C4C 0x000287B4 0x001DF058 0x1D40EEE8 0x1D40ECC0 0x1D40EF14 0x1D40F704
0x1D40EAAC 0x1D4195BC 0x1D410FB4 0x000BEBB8 0x001ED81C 0x0020F3CC 0x00092970 0x6C652043
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs(1.1.2)@0x1d400000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x14F86780)
PC=0x900044CC; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x024E7005; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00005D70; R1=0xBFFFEBC0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 6.6:
Thu May 1 21:48:54 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.34.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC

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Thu Jul 3 15:47:44 2003

panic(cpu 0): lockmgr: pid 460, thread 0x 2e2b7e4, not exclusive lock holder pid 465 thread 0x 2e2e650 unlocking, exclusive count 1
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x0008581C 0x00085C4C 0x000287B4 0x001DF058 0x1D40EEE8 0x1D40ECC0 0x1D40EF14 0x1D40F704
0x1D40EAAC 0x1D4195BC 0x1D410FB4 0x000BEBB8 0x001ED81C 0x0020F3CC 0x00092970 0x6C652043
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs(1.1.2)@0x1d400000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x14F86780)
PC=0x900044CC; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x024E7005; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00005D70; R1=0xBFFFEBC0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 6.6:
Thu May 1 21:48:54 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.34.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC

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Thu Jul 3 16:01:07 2003

panic(cpu 0): lockmgr: pid 460, thread 0x 2e2b7e4, not exclusive lock holder pid 465 thread 0x 2e2e650 unlocking, exclusive count 1
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x0008581C 0x00085C4C 0x000287B4 0x001DF058 0x1D40EEE8 0x1D40ECC0 0x1D40EF14 0x1D40F704
0x1D40EAAC 0x1D4195BC 0x1D410FB4 0x000BEBB8 0x001ED81C 0x0020F3CC 0x00092970 0x6C652043
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs(1.1.2)@0x1d400000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x14F86780)
PC=0x900044CC; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x024E7005; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00005D70; R1=0xBFFFEBC0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 6.6:
Thu May 1 21:48:54 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.34.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC

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booboo · Jul 3, 2003, 06:52 PM

Originally posted by cougar337:
...
Can someone explain to me how I can correct this?

Can you create a new user and see if the problems persist with this account...

suthercd · Jul 3, 2003, 07:13 PM

booboo's suggestion is the best way to go. It looks like there may be an issue with some Window shares. Have you been mounting Window shares... forlders on a Win machine?

Craig

cougar337 · Jul 3, 2003, 08:36 PM

Yes, I have some Windows drive I have been mounting to do some file sharing.....what do you think about this would be causing the lock-ups?

This doesnt explain the last log entry involving the laptop just turning itself off. once this happens I can just boot it back up and it's fine. When this happened I was at work and I was not doing any file sharing our drive mounts. I did have the ethernet cable connected so I could have internet access through the proxy servers but that was is

Kissargi · Jul 3, 2003, 08:44 PM

10.2.6 crashes on me too, ive tried zeroing my hdd, removing ram, everything. I just went back to 10.2.3, that works great for me.

cougar337 · Jul 3, 2003, 08:55 PM

Kissargi> I was thinking about going back to 10.2.3 myself but how do you do this???? can you take me step-by-step, my feeble Windows mind doesnt know how to do this

himself · Jul 4, 2003, 01:28 AM

Originally posted by cougar337:
Kissargi> I was thinking about going back to 10.2.3 myself but how do you do this???? can you take me step-by-step, my feeble Windows mind doesnt know how to do this

The simplest way of doing this is:

a)Starting up from your Jaguar Install Disc
b)Reinstalling Jaguar using the "Archive and Install" method (saves all of your current preferences and other installations)
c) applying the OS X updates one-by-one until you get to the one you want.

If you download the updates to your HD first, you'll have them ready if you ever need to go through this process again.

SKP07 · Jul 4, 2003, 01:35 AM

weird... Is it fixed now?

I have had nearly no probs or spinning beachball with 10.2.6..

Sorted it out or what?

Kissargi · Jul 4, 2003, 05:43 PM

strange how some macs just dont seem to like 10.2.6, hopefully panther will run properly (and not be too expensive with a student discount)

willab · Jul 4, 2003, 11:49 PM

Being a recent "switcher" from Windows my universal solution is to format and reinstall. (I've done so twice in 6 months.

Chips G · Jul 5, 2003, 12:29 AM

OS X (All versions up to 10.2) have VERY poor samaba sharing.. (dont know about others such as AFP)

You will run into many problems if you try to connect to a SMB server but the ip does not exists. Eventually you will probably end up with a kernel panic. Also, if you have the drive mounted, but turn off the computer that you are connected to, you will also run into major problems (this sounds like your problem)

cougar337 · Jul 7, 2003, 01:18 PM

Update: Well I decided to reload 10.2.3....I tried to fix the permissions, that didn't work and finally I decided to go ahead and reload 10.2.3. It seems to be running alot better, I had to move some of the files from when it did a back up but that was no big deal.

I really gave SMB a work out, transfered about 13GB of data over 3 different shared drives and no crashes....seems to be much more stable than 10.2.6

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!!!