My MacBook Pro will not stop Kernel Panicking

[magiic]

I posted awhile back about my late 2008 MBP kernel panicking during install of Lion and then my battles to reinstall Lion. After a fresh install it continued kernel panicking and Apple told me to bring it to a store for servicing (somehow I still have Apple Care). On the day I was going to bring it in the 10.7.2 update came out and I installed that but it kept kernel panicking during install and eventually did it at such a time that the system once again would no longer boot. So I took it into the authorized service place in paperweight form and left them to fix it.

They got Snow Leopard on it and said it passed a bunch of tests and seemed fine (they also tried to charge me for it despite me having AppleCare and Apple telling me to bring it in). I took it home and installed Lion and it kernel panicked almost immediately upon getting to the registration screen and rebooted. I rebooted and then checked for updates and it kernel panicked again while trying to install an update for iTunes. It seems to run the apple hardware test fine. I ran the comprehensive one over night on loop mode and it was still chugging away in the morning.

Does anyone have any experience with a problem like this? Should I just call Apple again and see what they can do? I use the computer for school and it's aggravating having to reboot every 15-20 minutes.

Cheers!

 

[Detrius]

Post panic logs, or we can't do much to help you besides spewing out generic BS.

 

[magiic]

Interval Since Last Panic Report: 21 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: DFF331A8-B4E2-494D-8525-54261364DC97

Mon Oct 31 11:26:30 2011
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff80002c266d): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80002e8451, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x000000065c2de5be, CR3: 0x000000001bd8e000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
RAX: 0x000000065c2de5a6, RBX: 0xffffff801641c420, RCX: 0xffffff800b3c04a8, RDX: 0x0000000000000000
RSP: 0xffffff807e96b760, RBP: 0xffffff807e96b770, RSI: 0x0000000000000001, RDI: 0xffffff801641c420
R8: 0x0000000000000073, R9: 0xffffff807e96b858, R10: 0x0000000000000063, R11: 0x000000000000000b
R12: 0xffffff801674b170, R13: 0xffffff8018fc3360, R14: 0x0000000000000000, R15: 0xffffff807e96bdb8
RFL: 0x0000000000010206, RIP: 0xffffff80002e8451, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
CR2: 0x000000065c2de5be, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Faulting CPU: 0x1

Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff807e96b420 : 0xffffff8000220702
0xffffff807e96b4a0 : 0xffffff80002c266d
0xffffff807e96b640 : 0xffffff80002d7a1d
0xffffff807e96b660 : 0xffffff80002e8451
0xffffff807e96b770 : 0xffffff80002e8f69
0xffffff807e96b7b0 : 0xffffff80002e9089
0xffffff807e96b7e0 : 0xffffff80004e3d6b
0xffffff807e96b990 : 0xffffff80003169a4
0xffffff807e96b9d0 : 0xffffff80002f494a
0xffffff807e96ba50 : 0xffffff80002f37bc
0xffffff807e96baf0 : 0xffffff8000311208
0xffffff807e96bb90 : 0xffffff800030a290
0xffffff807e96bc50 : 0xffffff800030a80e
0xffffff807e96bf50 : 0xffffff80005caa9b
0xffffff807e96bfb0 : 0xffffff80002d8363

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mdworker

Mac OS version:
11C74

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug 9 20:54:00 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 59275DFA-10C0-30B3-9E26-F7B5DFB1A432
System model name: MacBookPro4,1 (Mac-F42C89C8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 534002949609
last loaded kext at 49697673422: com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.4d0 (addr 0xffffff7f81f43000, size 28672)
last unloaded kext at 127481653735: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver 225.2 (addr 0xffffff7f8108f000, size 8192)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.4d0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.59
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.9
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.26
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.1.3f7
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.2.1
com.apple.GeForce 7.1.2
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.1d2
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224 500.36.11
com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2 3.2.2b1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU 2.0.1d2
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 4.7.5d4
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.5.3
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.1.9
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons 225.2
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.BootCache 33
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 225.2
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 312
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.0.1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.0.1
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.8.9
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 4.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 4.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 4.4.5
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 161.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 167.0.0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 3.2.30
com.apple.security.quarantine 1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 167.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleAVBAudio 1.0.0d11
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 80.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.0.1f4
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.5
com.apple.iokit.IOAVBFamily 1.0.0d22
com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController 1.0.0d5
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.1.3f7
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.3fc11
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 411.1
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.1.3f7
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.1.3f7
com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl 3.0.16
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.0.16
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.1d8
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.7.5d4
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.0.3
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 7.1.2
com.apple.NVDAResman 7.1.2
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.2
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.3.2
com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0
com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController 4.0.1f4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 4.0.1f4
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.0.1f4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch 227.1
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 4.4.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 4.5.3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 3.9.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.0.1
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 403
com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport 3.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.0.1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.7
com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.4.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 4.5.3
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 4.5.3
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.security.sandbox 165.3
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 331
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 28.18
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.4
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6.7
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4
Model: MacBookPro4,1, BootROM MBP41.00C1.B03, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.27f3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz, 0x7F7F9E0000000000, 0x565341324753445336363743342020202020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz, 0x7F7F9E0000000000, 0x565341324753445336363743342020202020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8C), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.11)
Bluetooth: Version 4.0.1f4, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HTS542520K9SA00, 200.05 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-867
USB Device: Built-in iSight, apple_vendor_id, 0x8502, 0xfd400000 / 2
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x1a100000 / 2
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x820f, 0x1a110000 / 5
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x0230, 0x5d200000 / 3
USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0x5d100000 / 2

 

[yawns]

This probably won't be very helpful, but what happens if you disable Spotlight indexing? You can do it in a terminal with

sudo mdutil -ai off

In the unlikely event that this actually works, you could try deleting spotlight's index/es (all of the .Spotlight-V100 directories in the root of each volume), then force a re-index with

sudo mdutil -ai on && sudo mdutil -aE

Bear in mind that, while testing with Spotlight off, if you reboot or plug any type of storage device in, you'll need to quickly tell Spotlight not to index again.

 

[Detrius]

How different are the other panic logs? Do they have the same "last loaded kext"?

With that short a time between panics, it's either going to be software that fires off on boot, or it's going to be really bad, easily detectable hardware (e.g. RAM).