Repeatedly kernel panic - whose fault is it?

[annamac]

Hi everyone,
starting today, i have repeatedly kernel panics on my new macbook pro 2.53 Ghz. I have some suspects, and hopefully hopefully somebody has a clue... I am desperate.

1_Fonts: I have had several warnings that some fonts in suitcase are in a conflict with system fonts. i tried to change that, but i don't really know which fonts need to be where?

2_Firefox add-ons: i downloaded several firefox add-ons a few days ago (themes), could they have caused the problem?

3_Bluetooth Mouse: wireless mighty mouse... since I have it, I have had more problems than before

4_Airport: I am in my schools library, and tried to manage my emails (LOTS of them) on my imap account via mail, while the airport connection was not very good... (oh, by the way, now all my mails have disappeared as well ... how can that happen? during synchroniziation and then having a kernel panic? i have now in total 42MB emails - used to be 412MB....)

what can I do myself? and what will the apple people do?


anna-maria

(and yes, of course I have 2 deadlines on monday and am crying out of frustration....)

 

[annamac]

That was the log...

Thu Dec 11 15:56:29 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A9C5C): Kernel trap at 0x008d4953, type 0=divide error, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x4cba7554, CR3: 0x01916000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x000000df, EBX: 0x00000010, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x00000000
CR2: 0x4cba7554, EBP: 0x6995f998, ESI: 0x00000202, EDI: 0x000000e0
EFL: 0x00010246, EIP: 0x008d4953, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x0b090010
Error code: 0x00000000

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x6995f7a8 : 0x12b4c9 (0x45aaac 0x6995f7dc 0x1335ba 0x0)
0x6995f7f8 : 0x1a9c5c (0x464070 0x8d4953 0x0 0x463750)
0x6995f8d8 : 0x1a026d (0x6995f8f0 0x216 0x6995f998 0x8d4953)
0x6995f8e8 : 0x8d4953 (0xe 0xb090048 0x110010 0x10)
0x6995f998 : 0x8db71a (0x42aef000 0x0 0x2 0xe)
0x6995f9d8 : 0x8dd3d9 (0x0 0x52a9a858 0x6 0x6995faf4)
0x6995fb28 : 0x8de640 (0x0 0x0 0x1 0x1)
0x6995fba8 : 0x8dff73 (0x1 0x0 0x6f2fec0 0x42aefc5c)
0x6995fc88 : 0x8e014c (0x42aef000 0x6995fcc4 0x6995fd08 0x6995fd04)
0x6995fd28 : 0x8e0549 (0x42aef000 0x42aefdf8 0x52a46900 0x4)
0x6995fd68 : 0x895cd4 (0x42aef000 0x52a46900 0x0 0x8d644b)
0x6995fdb8 : 0x8d20ab (0x6f2ec00 0x0 0xffffffff 0x42aef000)
0x6995fde8 : 0x8e59d3 (0x6f360c0 0xbdb1900 0x13 0x0)
0x6995fea8 : 0x8f6b19 (0x42aef000 0x6f3eb20 0xbdb1900 0x1369d7)
0x6995ff08 : 0x917577 (0x42aef000 0x78023e4 0x6995ff58 0x136da9)
0x6995ff28 : 0x424624 (0x6f360c0 0x6f36080 0x53e0c0 0x1)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx(361.9.5)@0x88d000->0x9ccfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(214.1)@0x86e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.5)@0x5f4000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.6.1)@0x7a0000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
9F2114

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.1: Fri Sep 19 16:19:24 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.8.30~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro5,1 (Mac-F42D86C8)

 

[Catfish_Man]

com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx(361.9.5)@0x88d000->0x9ccfff

Perhaps your airport card needs reseating? Mine came a bit loose once and caused kernel panics until I pushed it back in.

 

[Grimace]

Bad RAM (or non-Apple RAM) is the #1 cause of kernel panics.

Other than that, it's a hardware/software conflict that AppleCare should be able to take care of - either in a store or on the phone.

 

[SFStateStudent]

That's interesting, since I've been having kernel panics this past week. Took my MBA to the Apple Store after it froze up abut (6)X in a row, while running PowerPoint on an overhead projector, youtube videos, and Safari. The Apple Tech said it wasn't a hardware issue, but the terminals definitely showed the kernel panics. I ended up doing a clean reinstall on my own at my house and the situation has not repeated. But this happens to be my two weeks of finals, and 80 percent of my finals are PowerPoint presentations, so I'm always on the edge of my seat, worrying about the next kernel panic...

 

[Catfish_Man]

Bad RAM (or non-Apple RAM) is the #1 cause of kernel panics.

Other than that, it's a hardware/software conflict that AppleCare should be able to take care of - either in a store or on the phone.

Um, no. This one was definitely airport related.

 

[SFStateStudent]

Um, no. This one was definitely airport related.

+1 That's what the Apple Store Tech had mentioned as well...

 

[annamac]

airport - need to check it in the store?

hi guys,
do you think it could have been caused by the following situation:

some problems with the servers at my school, while me sitting in the library trying to connect to the internet again and again - sometimes successful - and then moving large amounts of emails from my imap server to my local harddrive...?

and do you think i need to check it in the store?