MBP Crash when installing Xcode

[jthompson7804]

New Mac user here (longtime PC user), just purchased a refurb. classic MBP/2.4/2GB a few days ago. I tried to install Xcode from the 2nd enclosed MBP DVD yesterday and during the process there was a hard crash (ie. the mouse stopped moving and I had to shut the machine off). At the time I was multitasking (ie. browsing, viewing files) while Xcode was being installed. Is it preferable to not do anything while the MBP is installing a package from the DVD drive?

Now my Core2Quad PC (purchased in Jan., running XP) hasn't had a hard crash yet and here I have one on the first full day I experiment with the MBP. Should this be concerning (re:hardware quality)? Here's the error msg I received (upon the folowing bootup) - does it give any clues as to what the cause was?


Mon Oct 27 05:42:12 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001DAFEE): "insmntque: vp on the free list\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.7.58/bsd/vfs/vfs_subr.c:1199
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2ea5b978 : 0x12b0fa (0x459234 0x2ea5b9ac 0x133243 0x0)
0x2ea5b9c8 : 0x1dafee (0x467010 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x2ea5b9f8 : 0x1dd9b5 (0x5d4bb40 0x4f63c0 0x2ea5bb58 0x1cf875)
0x2ea5ba68 : 0x2087b0 (0x0 0x34 0x2ea5baa8 0x652babc)
0x2ea5baf8 : 0x208b72 (0x652ba84 0x2ea5bd3c 0x4ba2940 0x435d804)
0x2ea5bb58 : 0x1f2c9c (0x2ea5bb78 0x2 0x2ea5bba8 0x44fe1e)
0x2ea5bba8 : 0x1d47aa (0x442f0a0 0x2ea5bd3c 0x2ea5be50 0xa6ebfe4)
0x2ea5bc38 : 0x1d552f (0x2ea5bd24 0x100 0x2ea5bd44 0x0)
0x2ea5bcf8 : 0x1e5380 (0x2ea5bd24 0x5 0x2ea5bd68 0x4)
0x2ea5bf78 : 0x3ddd6e (0x1 0xa6ebee0 0xa6ebf24 0xbca94e4)
0x2ea5bfc8 : 0x19f3b3 (0x5c08200 0x0 0x1a20b5 0x5c0a960)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffffb78

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: login

Mac OS version:
9F33

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep 3 11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386

 

[magallanes]

is it a clean install?.

 

[jthompson7804]

Yes it was a clean install (MBP shipped with OS X 10.5.2, started to use on Friday and I upgraded to 10.5.5 on Saturday and also installed Bootcamp/XPfterwards). I was able to install Xtools this morning from the CD fine and I believe it's working (am able to code with FreePascal now).

I hope it doesn't crash again...keeping my fingers crossed. Are there any Burnin-type tests I should do to test the system's stability (prior to the 14day return period?)?

 

[TDM21]

You may want to try an updated version of Xcode. Apple regularly releases updates for it that can be downloaded at the Apple Developer Connection (http://developer.apple.com/mac/). You will need to register a free account there, but once you do that you will be able to download the latest version of Xcode.