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freeze on ml

SlCKB0Y said:
I think it might be more than it seems as I've had at least three things cause it (with I believe the root cause being GFX drivers) ....
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The lockups only happen on my MBA's; my MacPro (also SSD, Trim Enabled) (Note: Not MBPro) running the exact same setup has been rock solid. MBA's freeze at least once a day and battery isn't great, YES, formatted installs without using Time Machine at all.

Back to Lion on the Airs until about 10.8.3 .....🙂
 
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TPadden said:
The lockups only happen on my MBA's; my MacPro (also SSD, Trim Enabled) running the exact same setup has been rock solid. MBA's freeze at least once a day and battery isn't great, YES, formatted installs without using Time Machine at all.

Back to Lion on the Airs until about 10.8.3 .....🙂
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If you check the on-going discussion, everyone in this thread with issues has a Mac with HDX000 GFX. For MBA this is mid-2011 onwards.
 
Indeed. I think I triggered it after launching iTunes and sweeping through the albums using the cover flow view last night. Could be a coincidence tho...
 
Also here MacBook Pro 2011 model with Intel 3000.

Google Chrome

My MBP freezed yesterday. I was still able to move the mouse cursor. Later i saw the beach ball.

Is there any solution yet?
 
iOrbit said:
my freezes are a little different,

i think both times it happened, i was interacting with the DOCK
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i clicked on the icon of Evernote. After that, the screen freezed.

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SlCKB0Y said:
I get this repeated in my logs at the time of the crash:
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I found the same into my system.log. Around this time my MBP freezed.


Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: **** Debug info for *possible* hang in MAIN graphics engine ****
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: ring head = 0x0c607ec4, wrap count = 99
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: ring tail = 0x00008d68
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: ring control = 0x0000f401 enabled, auto report disabled, not waiting, semaphore is waiting, length = 0x010 4KB pages
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: timestamps = 0x1a98d05
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: Semaphore register values:
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: VRSYNC: (0x12044) = 0x1a98d05
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: BRSYNC: (0x22040) = 0x1
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: RVSYNC: (0x 2040) = 0x0
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: BVSYNC: (0x22044) = 0x0
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: RBSYNC: (0x 2044) = 0x0
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: VBSYNC: (0x12040) = 0x0
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: trying to clear semaphore wait on MAIN ring
Aug 9 15:45:41 xxx kernel[0]: After attempt to clear semaphore wait = 0x0000f001 no longer waiting
Aug 9 15:45:46 xxx kernel[0]: stampWait: Overflowed checking for stamp 0x1a98d28 on MAIN ring: called from
Aug 9 15:45:46 xxx kernel[0]: timestamp = 0x1a98d07
 
well, it happened to me again yesterday,

i can't back the google chrome part as im not using chrome, don't have it installed.

i don't know about flash because alot of times these crashes have happened when im not even browsing the web, though safari might be open. which even if it is, im hardly on youtube.

most of my crashes have occurred while clicking an icon of a program already running on the dock.

then graphical glitches will occur on the dock.

i did a fresh install /formatted clean install of ML before so it cant be to do with upgrades.

or macbook airs specifically.. alot of 2011 macbook pro users here are describing it. we already know theres some issue with the gfx drivers because some users including my self are experiencing profile colour changes when the graphics switches to the other card. which happens sporadically not consistently.

i turned trim back on since i doubt its that.

i just hope apple fix this, i'd rather not go back to lion, i'm really at home with the new features and especially how memory is managed better here.
 
Today again 🙁 I will try to use for now only discrete graphic card.

It seems to freeze only with integrated graphic card?


Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: **** Debug info for *possible* hang in MAIN graphics engine ****
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: ring head = 0x4ae0f5d8, wrap count = 599
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: ring tail = 0x00001c38
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: ring control = 0x0000f401 enabled, auto report disabled, not waiting, semaphore is waiting, length = 0x010 4KB pages
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: timestamps = 0x669aa39
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: Semaphore register values:
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: VRSYNC: (0x12044) = 0x669aa39
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: BRSYNC: (0x22040) = 0x0
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: RVSYNC: (0x 2040) = 0x0
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: BVSYNC: (0x22044) = 0x0
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: RBSYNC: (0x 2044) = 0x0
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: VBSYNC: (0x12040) = 0x0
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: trying to clear semaphore wait on MAIN ring
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: stampWait: Overflowed checking for stamp 0x22c47a5 on BLT ring: called from wait for blt buffer (2D blt)
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: After attempt to clear semaphore wait = 0x0000f401 still waiting
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: timestamp = 0x22c47a4
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: **** Debug info for *possible* hang in BLT graphics engine ****
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: ring head = 0x6960e978, wrap count = 843
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: ring tail = 0x000024a8
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: ring control = 0x0000f001 enabled, auto report disabled, not waiting, semaphore not waiting, length = 0x010 4KB pages
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: timestamps = 0x22c47a4
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: Semaphore register values:
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: VRSYNC: (0x12044) = 0x669aa3a
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: BRSYNC: (0x22040) = 0x1
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: RVSYNC: (0x 2040) = 0x0
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: BVSYNC: (0x22044) = 0x0
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: RBSYNC: (0x 2044) = 0x0
Aug 10 21:30:11 xxx kernel[0]: VBSYNC: (0x12040) = 0x0
 
Yesterday i installed the latest stable update of Google Chrome.

Since this, the freeze happened for 2 times.

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I will do the following now:

- Restore to the previous version of Chrome

- Disable Chrome auto update (com.google.keystone.system.agent)

- I will use integrated graphic graphic
 
rodknocker said:
Yesterday i installed the latest stable update of Google Chrome.

Since this, the freeze happened for 2 times.
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Been running Chrome on my MacPro4,1 (Note: Not MBPro) w/ML since 25 Jul, not one freeze; daily freezes on 2012 MBA until I went back to Lion yesterday.

My bet is integrated graphics like everyone's been saying .....🙂
 
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TPadden said:
Been running Chrome on my MacPro4,1 w/ML since 25 Jul, not one freeze; daily freezes on 2012 MBA until I went back to Lion yesterday.

My bet is integrated graphics like everyone's been saying .....🙂
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I use ML since GM release. No freezes since yesterday. The only updated app yesterday was Google Chrome to Version 21.0.1180.75

Google Chrome Version 21.0.1180.57 was completly fine.

So i restored to this version, disabled the auto updater and i will use integrated graphic card now.
 
Today again.

I happened again as i moved the cursor over the Dock.

Therefore i can't be:

- latest version of Chrome
- discrete graphic card

I will use now discrete graphic card.


As TPadden said 😉 it seems to be the integrated graphic card 🙁

What i don't understand, the freezes began on 09. august.
 
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I have had the same thing happen since upgrading and I do not use Chrome. I was in Firefox and Safari when it happened. Once was when I went to change programs on the dock and another was when I went to right click on a link to open in a new tab. My cursor also still moves around but screen is completely unresponsive. I still need to go through the logs to see what I can find. I am on a 2008 MBP with NVIDIA 9400M.
 
There was no crash since my last post here, 11. august.

So the using of discrete graphic card seems to be a workaround.
 
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rodknocker said:
There was no crash since my last post here, 11. august.

So the using of discrete graphic card seems to be a workaround.
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Thanks for the further information. It just further reinforces the idea regarding the integrated intel gfx.

I haven't had a crash since i turned off the dock magnification about a week ago...but not sure if thats the reason...
 
It is definitely an issue with the integrated graphic card 🙂 and of course, i think something around the dock.
Every freeze was if i moved the cursor over the dock.

I never used the dock magnification.
 
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I'm also getting the freezes. They started yesterday, completely out of the blue, and I thought I had it zero'ed in on Chrome being the culprit, however I stopped using Chrome and still got the freezes even while trying to reinstall Mountain Lion, from the recovery partition (ie. almost no apps. running at all, no Dock, etc)

I noticed however that, like me, another user is using a Crucial M4 SSD, anyone else using this drive ?.

Thanks
 
2112 said:
I noticed however that, like me, another user is using a Crucial M4 SSD, anyone else using this drive ?.
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I am and I initially thought it might be the cause but there are too many people with stock machines also seeing this issue.
 
I have an MBA 2012 BTO with preinstalled ML. After approx. 14 days of trouble free use, mine froze yesterday for the first time shortly after I did a Safari reset.
 
I experienced a freeze today after 10.8.1, haven't experienced anything bad for a year as my MBP has been flawless. Today it froze though when I was on Safari, I could move the cursor around but I had a beachball and everything was unresponsive, there was also some graphical glitches in the safari window.

Had to do a hard reset and it's been fine since. Hopefully it was an isolated incident.
 
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