Mac Freezing with New Hard Drive, New Install

[Satcomer]

I think the clue is this: "Jun 14 08:18:24 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s10, major 14, minor 9".

[DeltaMac]

Originally Posted by Satcomer

I think the clue is this: "Jun 14 08:18:24 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s10, major 14, minor 9".

Satcomer - can you 'splain what you mean? My Mac (a completely different Mac, with no similar problems) has exactly the same line at exactly the same point in booting.

[shanis42]

I have that line on the working mac as well. It froze this morning right on schedule. Tonight I am going to try and pull all of the cables on external devices before startup in the morning. I dont really have much connected to it outside of monitor and KB/mouse: network cable, speakers, and one Lacie Drive.

Well let me know if you have any other suggestions.

Thanks.

[ex2bot]

It looks to me that there is a time gap between

Jun 14 08:01:55 Susan-Lacey diskarbitrationd[40]: disk2s6 hfs 341E09ED-2B6A-3BD5-8676-3C42EFB9DFF1 LaCie External /Volumes/LaCie External

and

Jun 14 08:10:36 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us


I guess that is your first crash. It looks like the system is crashing at disk arbitration, attempting to mount the external disk.

There's another time gap later on, and the last thing in the log is disk arbitration (08:10:56). Another line indicates that the external drive has not mounted, possibly indicating a mounting error. It looks like DeltaMac is right, bad disk.

You could try one of the commercial products DiskWarrior or TechTool Pro. These two will attempt to repair the hard drive data structures. Another utility, Data Rescue (by ProSoft, I think), will attempt to get as much data off the drive as possible.

Good luck.

t

[shanis42]

This morning I disconnected the external drive, speakers, and Ethernet cable.

The computer stayed on longer than usual. I started up around 7:45 and at 8:10 everything was running ok. I then hooked the Ethernet cable back up to check my mail. Maybe 5 minutes or so later it froze. I will be testing the Ethernet again tomorrow. Because the problem only happens in the morning it will be hard to test now.

It still froze with the external disconnected, so it is plugged in now.

How would I look for Ethernet/network problems? Is it possible for a faulty internet connection to freeze a computer? When the cable is plugged in I do have internet access, so I am not exactly sure how to diagnose whether an onboard network is functioning properly.

[shanis42]

Two things have been eliminated:
Yesterday I disconnected everything except the external drive. It froze.
This morning I disconnected the external and reconnected the network cable and speakers. It froze. Both times around 7:47am.

I think for monday I will disconnect the wireless Logitech KB/Mouse combo, and reconnect all others.

Here are the details of last evening (shutdown) and the morning (startup to freeze, maybe a little beyond) from my console log:

Jun 21 16:30:54 Susan-Lacey shutdown: halt by susanlacey:
Jun 21 16:30:55 Susan-Lacey SystemStarter[322]: authentication service (330) did not complete successfully
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost mDNSResponder-108.5 (May 9 2007 15: 08:01)[34]: starting
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 254372 free pages
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost lookupd[45]: lookupd (version 369.5) starting - Fri Jun 22 07:41:04 2007
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 70
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost memberd[41]: memberd starting up
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: 84 prelinked modules
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost DirectoryService[46]: Launched version 2.1 (v353.6)
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: using 2621 buffer headers and 2621 cluster IO buffer headers
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 31 built-in now active, GUID 000a95ff fecf6132; max speed s400.
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Security auditing service present
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: BSM auditing present
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: disabled
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 7D9E1B84-2384-3D55-98A8-6A0C542636DE
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/MacRISC2PE/pci@f4000000/AppleMacRiscPCI/ata-6@D/AppleKauaiATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/ST3320620A Media/IOApplePartitionScheme/Apple_HFS_Untitled_1@10
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s10, major 14, minor 10
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kernel linker.
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Resetting IOCatalogue.
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 0
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 2
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: rtclock timebase_callback: late old 1000000000 / 41656700 new 1000000000 / 41656700
Jun 22 07:41:04 localhost kernel[0]: IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
Jun 22 07:41:06 localhost kernel[0]: UniNEnet: Ethernet address 00:0a:95:cf:61:32
Jun 22 07:41:06 localhost lookupd[57]: lookupd (version 369.5) starting - Fri Jun 22 07:41:06 2007
Jun 22 07:41:07 localhost diskarbitrationd[40]: disk0s10 hfs 7D9E1B84-2384-3D55-98A8-6A0C542636DE Rocky /
Jun 22 07:41:07 localhost diskarbitrationd[40]: disk2s6 hfs 341E09ED-2B6A-3BD5-8676-3C42EFB9DFF1 LaCie External [not mounted]
Jun 22 07:41:07 localhost diskarbitrationd[40]: disk1s10 hfs 1D768BE2-C869-3895-B792-D9462318BC81 Adrian /Volumes/Adrian
Jun 22 07:41:09 localhost mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local.
Jun 22 07:41:12 localhost kernel[0]: ATY,Pheonix_A: vram [9c000000:04000000]
Jun 22 07:41:12 localhost kernel[0]: ATY,Pheonix_B: vram [98000000:04000000]
Jun 22 07:41:12 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow: Login Window Application Started
Jun 22 07:41:13 localhost loginwindow[73]: Login Window Started Security Agent
Jun 22 07:41:14 localhost configd[38]: AppleTalk startup
Jun 22 07:41:14 Susan-Lacey configd[38]: setting hostname to "Susan-Lacey.local"
Jun 22 07:41:20 Susan-Lacey configd[38]: AppleTalk startup complete
Jun 22 07:41:20 Susan-Lacey configd[38]: AppleTalk shutdown
Jun 22 07:41:20 Susan-Lacey diskarbitrationd[40]: disk2s6 hfs 341E09ED-2B6A-3BD5-8676-3C42EFB9DFF1 LaCie External /Volumes/LaCie External
Jun 22 07:41:20 Susan-Lacey configd[38]: AppleTalk shutdown complete
Jun 22 07:51:51 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us

The first line is the shutdown last night (leaving work) and last line is the first of the restart after the crash. It looks like appletalk shutdown right before the crash, could appletalk freeze a system?