Need help figuring out a Kernel error

[Tanay Shah]

Hi,

Let me begin by saying that I have a Mid 2009 MacBook Pro 15" running on the latest software.
I've been facing a lot of issues off late. My laptop is always plugged into my power cord and is barely ever shut down. Just the other day I started getting the spinning beach ball constantly in every application I'd run. It was continuous to a point that I had to force restart my laptop by pushing down the power button.

Every time I would restart and open any application, my laptop would freeze within the time span of about 5 minutes upon restart.

I've tried running it in safe mode, which it does go to and restarting it again from thereon.

Now about a an hour ago I got a kernel error. I must mention I've received these in the past a hella lot. This time I received it after months.

This is the error message I retrieved:

Interval Since Last Panic Report: 2259940 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: 9E26B4FB-B38B-0C8F-0DC0-75424B52A35C

Thu Aug 1 10:50:59 2013
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff8008eb8655): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80092131ab, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000028, CR3: 0x000000000b47f000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0xffffff801a512780, RCX: 0xffffff801a512780, RDX: 0xffffff801a1c5dc0
RSP: 0xffffff80f04a3c90, RBP: 0xffffff80f04a3cc0, RSI: 0xffffff80094e1b70, RDI: 0xffffff80f04a3cd8
R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x0000000000000010, R10: 0x0000000000000000, R11: 0x0000000000000000
R12: 0xffffff80094e1dc0, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0xffffff80f04a3cd8, R15: 0xffffff801a511c00
RFL: 0x0000000000010286, RIP: 0xffffff80092131ab, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000000
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000028, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x1

Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80f04a3930 : 0xffffff8008e1d626
0xffffff80f04a39a0 : 0xffffff8008eb8655
0xffffff80f04a3b70 : 0xffffff8008ece17d
0xffffff80f04a3b90 : 0xffffff80092131ab
0xffffff80f04a3cc0 : 0xffffff8009259959
0xffffff80f04a3dc0 : 0xffffff7f89366e4c
0xffffff80f04a3e20 : 0xffffff7f8995b6d8
0xffffff80f04a3e60 : 0xffffff800923194b
0xffffff80f04a3ea0 : 0xffffff800923146e
0xffffff80f04a3f30 : 0xffffff800922d400
0xffffff80f04a3f70 : 0xffffff8009231fc9
0xffffff80f04a3fb0 : 0xffffff8008eb3137
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform(1.7)[D49DC2E0-97DF-32E6-A8ED-7A12EF1AA51B]@0xffffff7f89362000->0xffffff7f893b9fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[A35915E8-C1B0-3C0F-81DF-5515BC9002FC]@0xffffff7f89337000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffffff7f8933e000
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM(1.7)[B998613C-E89D-31A9-9058-C9F525FE2A75]@0xffffff7f8995a000->0xffffff7f89962fff
dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime(1.7)[ED1270C8-4B0E-3686-A6E0-BCFCF8ABDA6B]@0xffffff7f89627000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
Not yet set

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May 1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 896CB1E3-AB79-3DF1-B595-549DFFDF3D36
Kernel slide: 0x0000000008c00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8008e00000
System model name: MacBookPro5,4 (Mac-F22587A1)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 3201623945
last loaded kext at 2620747051: com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.5.5 (addr 0xffffff7f89a20000, size 36864)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.5.5
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 5.5.5
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.7
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331 615.20.17
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 5.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBOHCI 5.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 161.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.5.2
com.apple.nvenet 2.0.19
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.9.6
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.9
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 196.0.0
com.apple.security.quarantine 2.1
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 4.0.39
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 196.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 5.5.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 5.2.5
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 5.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 530.4
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 5.6.0
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.3.1
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.0
com.apple.driver.NVSMU 2.2.9
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.5.5
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.8.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7
com.apple.security.sandbox 220.3
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 345
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 28.21
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.7.3
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4




Please help me out. I just don't seem to understand what the issue is. It's impossible using my laptop now.

 

[throAU]

Take note of multiple panics and compare them.

Panics are generally caused by (in order of likelyhood)

• hardware failure - typically dodgy RAM or overheating due to fan problems / dust, but could be a loose memory stick, CPU problem, system board problem, etc.
• a driver/firmware problem
• a problem in OS X (these are rare and generally only happen under unusual circumstances, otherwise everybody else would have the problem too)

If the panics always look like they're in the same program/process it is perhaps a problem with that process. If they are all different its likely a memory/cpu/board/heat problem.

 

[Tanay Shah]

Hi, thanks for the early reply. I'm not sure which process the kernel panic attack triggers. How can I find out whether any hardware is affected?

 

[Tanay Shah]

Bump!

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