Hard freeze on awakening from sleep

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shuwarger

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When my eMac w/ MacOS 10.4.8, 1GB RAM awakens from sleeping, I get the spinning pizza of death (SPOD) and the computer does not respond to the keyboard at all! The only thing I can do is to hold in the power button until the computer shuts off, then power up again. I am up-to-date on all software updates. Have repaired permissions, checked internal hard drive (via external drive startup), all with normal results.

It operates normally at all other times.

Any ideas?

Don
 
Shuwarger...

I experience the same problem...

My system freezes with my personal screen saver. I've had a host of ideas and tried many to fix this but nothing seems to resolve.

Moreover, I run the newest version of skype for Mac and coincidently this hard freeze happened after i installed it??? Plus Skype on occasion freezes my sys. when i terminate a call. I await answers from skype...

Sorry no answers... just thoughts.

Just be happy it's not MS Windows. (oh can i say that here...?)

CaribbeanOS-X
 
I've actually be experiencing similar issues. However, mine has now gotten to the point that I can even start it up on restart. freezes halfway through the restart.
 
My best suggestion is not to put it to sleep :p

What if you were to restart the computer through mac OS X while it wasn't frozen. Would it do a warm start up?

Also, for halfgreek, computers (including pc's and macs) freeze for entirely different issues. Try running diagnostics on the hard drive for dead sectors and then try reinstalling mac os x.
 
HalfGreek...


halfgreek said:
I've actually be experiencing similar issues. However, mine has now gotten to the point that I can even start it up on restart. freezes halfway through the restart.
Click to expand...

I am running clean and smooth now. That post was some time ago but here are my additional thoughts:

I put the energy settings and sleep to NEVER, as i just turn it off of close it when i am done.

The screen saver is a Mac OS-X option not mine... otherwise it goes and opens up your photos albums and i wonder if it quietly runs iPhoto... like QUICKTIME is running full time in the background (from what i've read, part of it is built-in to run with the OS)

I am now running SKYPE version BETA 2.6.0.72

shuwarger this could be for you.... One thing i've NOT done is upgrade to the 10.4.9... i would recommend leaving it... i've read other peoples problems with this. SPINNING FANS etc...

Supanatral has a good point with the Dead Sectors and ReInstall
Always nice to have a clean ride!

Good luck... drop a line if there are other issues.

CaribbeanOS-X
 
I shut off sleep and it seemed to do the job. My Mac was recently returned from my departments computer shop with a fresh install and still froze. Probably not the best answer to a pretty common problem but it works.
 
Here's my tale for this resurrected thread. I have my iMac 24" (10.6.3) set to never put the computer to sleep and put the display to sleep after one hour. The screen saver (Flurry) starts after 5 minutes.

Four times since moving to Snow Leopard, when I arrive in the morning, the system is frozen - won't respond to mouse movement or keyboard activity. The first 3 times, the screensaver appeared for a second before freezing. This morning that did not happen - just cold and dark.

So I hold the power button for 20 seconds or so, then click it and the systems starts up. Console shows a kernel panic at the moment I moved the mouse:

Code: 
0x8286bfc8 : 0x29e8a6 (0x0 0x0 0x4577654e 0x99604c4) 
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.apple.GeForce(6.1.0)@0xc45000->0xcedfff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.1.0)@0x96c000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.1)@0x95f000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x92d000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.1)@0x93e000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Finder

The general console log doesn't show anything too weird except the entry from Mail shown below. Any ideas?

-------------------
5/31/10 11:31:37 PM Mail[382] *** Assertion failure in -[IMAPToDoStoreReconciliationAgent prepareToReconcileForMailboxID:], /SourceCache/Message/Message-1078/MessageStores.subproj/IMAP.subproj/IMAPToDoStoreReconciliationAgent.m:56
Cannot reconcile with nil store
(
0 Message 0x00007fff83c2a941 -[MFAssertionHandler _handleFailureWithPreamble:description:arguments:] + 137
1 Message 0x00007fff83c2a8a6 -[MFAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:eek:bject:file:lineNumber:description:] + 220
2 Message 0x00007fff83aed857 -[IMAPToDoStoreReconciliationAgent prepareToReconcileForMailboxID:] + 138
3 Message 0x00007fff83aed272 -[ToDoReconciler(Internal) _triggerAgentsForPhase] + 631
4 Message 0x00007fff83aec85d -[ToDoReconciler requestReconciliation:] + 911
5 Message 0x00007fff83aec4b3 -[IMAPToDoStoreReconciliationAgent requestReconciliation] + 102
6 Message 0x00007fff83acf4b3 -[IMAPMailboxSyncEngine _goWithMessages:] + 1278
7 Message 0x00007fff83aa2756 -[LibraryIMAPStore openSynchronouslyUpdatingMetadata:withOptions:] + 343
8 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff813ccd8c __invoking___ + 140
9 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff813ccc5d -[NSInvocation invoke] + 141
10 Message 0x00007fff83a85a69 -[MonitoredInvocation invoke] + 214
11 Message 0x00007fff83a6cad4 -[ThrowingInvocationOperation main] + 31
12 Message 0x00007fff83a6c414 -[_MFInvocationOperation main] + 275
13 Foundation 0x00007fff837f6081 -[__NSOperationInternal start] + 681
14 Foundation 0x00007fff837f5d37 ____startOperations_block_invoke_2 + 99
15 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8258d610 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 15
16 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8256bbb1 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 239
17 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8256b4e8 _pthread_wqthread + 353
18 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8256b385 start_wqthread + 13
)
 
Whitehill, the kernel panic log you posted show this from the graphics;

Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(6.1.0)@0xc45000->0xcedfff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.1.0)@0x96c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.1)@0x95f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x92d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.1)@0x93e000

So something in the GeForce stuff went wrong. Either driver, instructions gone bad (Finder or other parts of OS - Finder was where the instructions went South above), or hardware...

Make sure the OS and any firmware updates etc are the latest, and you could also run the hardware test in the evening (looped, at least a few rounds extended), just to see if it would report anything back from the graphics card.
 
Apple's Hardware Test will be on one of your original restore DVDs (came in the box with your iMac). Boot to that restore disk, while holding the letter 'D' (for Diagnostics, eh?). There's a standard test, and an extended test. You can run either, or both. More RAM installed, means a longer test.
In fact, if you still have the original hard drive installed, you may find that holding the D while you restart brings up the resident diagnostics, without needing your original DVD.
If not, then you need that original DVD...
 
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