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Sudden Log-out in Snow Leopard (+ Blue Screen)

Re: Sudden Log-out in Snow Leopard (+ Blue Screen)

Does anyone have any feel for whether or not Apple has a clue about this crash. It's happened to me numerous times. I'm never actually doing anything other than sliding my pointer across the screen. The couple of dump files that I looked at seemed to imply that it's a display issue. There are so many cases where this crash happens that I doubt the solution is going to be as simple as 'I was running X" I am seriously wishing I hadn't made this update.

I've been running Mac Oses for YEARS and have never had this kind of a problem. I think it's more frustrating because I no longer feel like there's an easy channel to communicate the problem with customer support.
 
And of course two minutes after I post about the issue Software Updater finishes runnign and there's an OS update. Sorry for wasting your time.
 
10.6.2 fix it?

So, we all joyously saw that 10.6.2 fixes some sudden logout issues, but does it fix ours with Rosetta/Carbon apps? I hope so!
I've been Excelling a bit, with no issue yet.

But, I've done updates that "fix certain Bluetooth issues", and yet still my mighty mouse still drops the macbookpro at times.

So, if anyone updates to 10.6.2 and still has the problem, please post, so we know to still be wary.

I'm hoping that got it this time. :D
 
right after the upgrade...

i got logged out while watching youtube vids on safari, and this was after the upgrade to 10.6.2.
 
Log out suddenly

Hello there,

I am like a lot of people facing this issue too.

I had it 5 times today, and it is very anoying.

Personally, I never had the problem when working, only when I listening music on itunes, or when the computer is idle.:confused:

I don't have special peripheral connected to my computer, except one external harddrive used for Time Machine, and sometimes an other external harddisk.


If anybody have any other clues or need help to troubleshoot with me, I will be very happy ! :)

Thank you,

Cosmik

imac 24" Core2Duo with snow leopard 10.6.2
 
I Get Opposite Problem

Im running the 8 core with the 64bit activated - and i tend to find that I cnt even logout - im stuck at the blue screen with the grey spinning loader, and I have to force shutdown, but I am too using all bluetooth tech!
 
Augh! Happening to me but w/o the blue screen. Just straight to power off, black

Folks, I don't know what the heck is happening. My 3yr-old MacBook Pro is crashing a lot since "upgrading" to SL (from Tiger). Doesn't really matter what I'm doing. It could crash right now while I'm typing this.

So. Three hours ago I did a clean install. Erased the HD, the works. After the re-install, I installed the software updates suggested by Software Updater (natch). Beyond what the updater suggested, I've installed MS Silverlight 3.0 and iStat 2.0. During the time since, I've run only iStat, Safari and Mail with a couple of visits to some System Preferences panes.

Three times since this re-install my laptop has suddenly, utterly crashed. No warning. No blue screen. No kernel panic window. Just power off. Black screen. Hard reboot required. ... And no crash log upon return!

Any and all advice would be most appreciated. I am really at a loss here.

Thanks.

Z.
 
Hey, MacRumors community.
I just encountered the first (non-kernal-panic) bluescreen-like failure of my favorite OS.
The chain of events leading to this:

I accidentally pressed the "call" button on my connected Motorola "ROKR" S305 bluetooth headset. This button has no feature in OSX, but causes audio to cut off.
I hit the volume hotkeys a few times, waiting to see when it works again.
Finally, I hear an error "ping" noise from the internal speakers, and then the screen goes blue.
It sits there, blue with a spinning "thinking" indicator, long enough for me to get scared.
Then suddenly, the login screen pops up, and I login as normal.


The console tells me that first:

1/22/10 1:11:40 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[196] ([0x0-0x2bd2bd].com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent[21581]) The following job tried to hijack the service "com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgentDOServer" from this job: [0x0-0x31a31a].com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent
1/22/10 1:13:01 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[196] Background: Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:2463 (23932):0
1/22/10 1:13:01 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[196] Background: job_mig_intran() was confused by PID 0 UID 0 EUID 0 Mach Port 0x7203: kernel_task
1/22/10 1:13:01 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[196] Bug: launchd_runtime.c:936 (23929):0: j != NULL
1/22/10 1:13:01 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.loginwindow[29]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault
1/22/10 1:13:01 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[196] (com.apple.Dock.agent[274]) Exited with exit code: 1
1/22/10 1:13:01 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[196] (com.wacom.wacomtablet[297]) Exited with exit code: 255

(...)followed by a series of errors from my various programs crashing.


I have just lost hours of work, because Pages '08 has no autosave.

I'm not really looking for a solution so much as wanting to get this on the internet for others to see, and maybe find a solution that is not "go buy new headphones."
 
Zastrozzi said:
Folks, I don't know what the heck is happening. My 3yr-old MacBook Pro is crashing a lot since "upgrading" to SL (from Tiger). Doesn't really matter what I'm doing. It could crash right now while I'm typing this.

So. Three hours ago I did a clean install. Erased the HD, the works. After the re-install, I installed the software updates suggested by Software Updater (natch). Beyond what the updater suggested, I've installed MS Silverlight 3.0 and iStat 2.0. During the time since, I've run only iStat, Safari and Mail with a couple of visits to some System Preferences panes.

Three times since this re-install my laptop has suddenly, utterly crashed. No warning. No blue screen. No kernel panic window. Just power off. Black screen. Hard reboot required. ... And no crash log upon return!

Any and all advice would be most appreciated. I am really at a loss here.

Thanks.

Z.
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Is this happening when running connected to the mains, or on battery? I had that happen with my old Powerbook G4 when the battery was dying. It wouldn't even go to sleep, it would just die. Sounds like you might need a new battery.
 
Not just a 10.6 issue

Just to add some fuel to this fire, but I don't think it's isolated to 10.6.
I'm running 10.5.8 on a 3 year old MBP and I just experienced this for the first time. I was running a PPC app but not interacting with a BT device, so it might well be a Rosetta bug. I'm on this machine over 10 hours a day and never had it happen until today. Gonna hunt around and see what the crash report might tell me.
 
blue screen issues...

I've been having the same issues with the blue screen flash (using OSX 10.6.6 on a 6-month old mac, mid-2010). I've gotten console errors showing a "windowserver event death." I took my macbook to the Apple store today and spoke with a Mac Genius. I showed him the console from when my screen went blue this morning, and he suspected the blue screen flash was a problem with permissions, and that maybe a permissions error was causing the system to crash and reboot, looking like it was logging out and back in quickly. I guess permissions can be corrupted pretty easily.

Anyways, he repaired permissions and hopefully that will work. Here's the blog post I put up with more details on how to repair permissions:

http://firelitdesign.blogspot.com/20...sh-during.html

So far so good, hasn't happened again, so hopefully it is a good fix. I'll have to wait and see if I get that annoying blue screen again and loose all of my work.
 
for the moment, fixed

Hello everyone,

I have been having this same problem with my Macbook Pro. I called Apple Care. The technician asked me to reboot my computer in safe mode (turn off computer, and then turn on while pressing shift. Once the grey screen with the apple appears, release shift.)

It took a while to reboot in safe mode, because apparently, the computer automatically fixes a few things. Then I restarted my computer, and violá. I haven't had the blue screen log out problem anymore.

I hope this worksfor at least some of you! Good luck.
 
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