DVD Player Panics 10.5.4?

[Mattww]

I have been running Leopard on my Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5GHz since release and it has been very stable in general. A few application crashes now and then but no kernel panics at all. I watch a lot of DVDs on my Mac and have used surround speakers connected to the optical out for several years.

In the last few days however I suddenly have experienced two kernel Panics whilst playing DVDs and browsing the web something I do regularly. the first time I was chatting in iChat, had Mail, Safari, iCal, Activity monitor and iTunes running in the background. After the first panic I successfully watched several discs problem free but then I got another panic today with just Safari running.

Rember says my RAM is OK and I am watching another DVD now - anyone else having issues similar to this?

Here are the Panic logs for reference. I'd be grateful if someone with a ADC account could submit a bug report. It looks like if it is a bug it is in the AppleDBDMAAudio driver:



Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x00000000495FF000 PC=0x0
0000000000B400C
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x4a9bf000)
PC=0x000B400C; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x495FF000; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x49E8
A3C4; R1=0x41027C10; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x0AC35248 0x49E8A234 0x4928C474 0x4928C27C 0x4928C038 0x49285528
0x492848B8 0x0037B974 0x000B2DCC 0xFFC1C1C3
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xF072CA70

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleDBDMAAudio(2.5.7f2)@0x49e87000->0x49eb4fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.4b7)@0x49275000
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.4b7)@0x49275000->0x49294fff
dependency: com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib(1.1)@0x49129000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x4a9bf000)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x4960d780)
PC=0x95FA7BD8; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x279FA000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x919F
6B7C; R1=0xF072CA70; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: DVD Player

Mac OS version:
9E17

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:36:17 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/
RELEASE_PPC
System model name: PowerMac7,3
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x0009B498 0x0009BE3C 0x00029DD8 0x000AF210 0x000B2A78
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x4a9bf000)
PC=0x000B400C; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x495FF000; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x49E8
A3C4; R1=0x41027C10; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x0AC35248 0x49E8A234 0x4928C474 0x4928C27C 0x4928C038 0x49285528
0x492848B8 0x0037B974 0x000B2DCC 0xFFC1C1C3
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xF072CA70

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleDBDMAAudio(2.5.7f2)@0x49e87000->0x49eb4fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.4b7)@0x49275000
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.4b7)@0x49275000->0x49294fff
dependency: com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib(1.1)@0x49129000





Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:36:17 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/
RELEASE_PPC
System model name: PowerMac7,3
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x0009B498 0x0009BE3C 0x00029DD8 0x000AF210 0x000B2A78
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x49fa8500)
PC=0x000B3FC0; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x496F0000; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0072
B3C4; R1=0x52D5BC10; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x049CC838 0x0072B234 0x004DD474 0x004DD27C 0x004DD038 0x004D6528
0x004D58B8 0x0037B974 0x000B2DCC 0x696E7465
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xF072CA70

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleDBDMAAudio(2.5.7f2)@0x728000->0x755fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.4b7)@0x4c6000
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.4b7)@0x4c6000->0x4e5fff
dependency: com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib(1.1)@0x4c2000
Exception state (sv=0x4a0

 

[hiddenpremise]

Try booting to your restore disk holding the D key. Loop the diagnostics and see if you can find a hardware problem.

 

[Mattww]

I finally managed to do the extended test with my AHT CD and it passed fine.

I do think it must be a software issue but it is difficult to see what has changed. I installed 10.5.4 on the 30th of June and I definitely watched several DVDs after that. I only normally do restarts for updates as I just put my machine to sleep at night. The only other updates I can see that have been installed are to do with the Mobile Me change over - iTunes 7.7, AOS 1.0 (I don't recognise this?), Mac OS X Update for Mobile Me 1.1, HP printer Drivers Update 1.1, iPhoto Update 7.1.4, iLife Support 8.3, iWeb update 2.0.4 and iMovie 7.1.4.

I can't see that this would have affect the DVD Player application or the Audio drivers?

My first Panic was on the 24th and the next on the 27th - I watched several DVDs between as well. It is very frustrating as I can't be 100% confident in running other applications with unsaved data just in case. I have trashed the DVD Player preferences just in case.

 

[hiddenpremise]

If AHT comes back fine then try running disk utilty from the install disk. Do the repair disk option, then do the repair permissions option. Then quit disk utility and open the password reset utility use the dump user ACL's option at the bottom. Also look at your hard drive's smart status in disk utility and make sure it still says "Verified." If you have adequate drive space, add another partition and try installing a clean copy of osx to the other partition. See if you have kernal panics on the new partition. I also have seen AHT and ASD not pick up on drive issues. If you have a copy of diskwarrior or techtool (standard version comes with applecare) then run that and do the most advanced scan you can for your hard drive (preferably with the surface scan enabled).

 

[erikistired]

i had a problem with the dvd player once after an update (10.4.9 maybe, somewhere around there) and after fixing permissions it worked again fine afterward.

 

[Mattww]

Well no problems with permissions or the disk directory according to Disk utility. It is not a free space issue as I still have 220GB left out of 698.

I guess barring a reinstall I can't get much further. I'm a little reluctant to do that if I can avoid it as everything else is working fine and even DVD player can work for days - it is shame it isn't just quitting once in a while - I really hate kernel panics - it is like having OS 9 again!

 

[Mattww]

So after deleting the DVD player preferences I have used my machine normally including watching many DVDs whilst browsing the web and everything was fine until today (17/08/08) when I got another kernel panic.

The log was exactly the same as before

So it seems I can use the computer for days, maybe even weeks but at some point when watching a DVD I'm going to get a panic.