Official Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Thread & FAQ

Discovered the problem. The 5.0.3 had a later modification date of August while the 5.2 has one in July . . . but the creation date for 5.0.3 is obviously much earlier. I must have substituted the earlier one when I reorganized my folders.



Why I got another external HD. I merely reinstalled 10.6 to the clone, grabbed 5.2, exchanged, now to see if it all works!

And indeed it does! Now to update the clone. . . .

--J.D.
 
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icemanjc said:
Adding to the detail of my crashing problem, here's what showed up for the fourth time.

Interval Since Last Panic Report: 42949 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: 96568003-8498-45FE-9785-45571E71BF19

Wed Sep 9 09:13:00 2009
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xefaaec): AppleIntelGMAX3100FB GPU parser error. EIR 0x1 ESR 0x1 Instruction Error IPEIR 0 IPEHR 0xff20513e BBADDR 0 INSTDONE 0xffe5fafd INSTPS 0xb8c32 INSTPM 0x10
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2f9c3e28 : 0x21acfa (0x5ce650 0x2f9c3e5c 0x223156 0x0)
0x2f9c3e78 : 0xefaaec (0xf02bc0 0x548f0a0 0xf02bb0 0x1)
0x2f9c3f08 : 0x548049 (0x5506800 0x54ec880 0x1 0x29b50a)
0x2f9c3f58 : 0x54707a (0x54ec880 0x863ec0 0x5dd9044 0x5dd901c)
0x2f9c3f88 : 0x5474d4 (0x55d89c0 0x55d89c0 0x0 0xffffffff)
0x2f9c3fc8 : 0x29c68c (0x55d89c0 0x0 0x0 0x564e0a4)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelGMAX3100FB(6.0.0)@0xeef000->0xf05fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.3.0)@0x91e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x932000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.0)@0xbdc000
dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleSMC(3.0.1d2)@0x922000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
10A432

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBook4,1 (Mac-F22788A9)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 1069162487723
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 2.0 (addr 0xc96000, size 0x12288) - last unloaded 148730711430
loaded kexts:
com.apple.filesystems.afpfs 9.5 - last loaded 905187142569
com.apple.nke.asp_tcp 5.0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 1.7.4a1
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.0.2
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.2d0
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.0d4
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 3.4.0a20
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 161
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPenrynProfile 17
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.4.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.0.5
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelGMAX3100 6.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelGMAX3100FB 6.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTrackpad 1.8.0b4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver 1.8.0b4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 1.8.0b4
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 2.5.0
com.apple.BootCache 31
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 1.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.3.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 3.7.8
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.4
com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2 3.1.14b1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 3.7.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 3.7.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 160.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.3
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx 410.91.20
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 90.0.0
com.apple.security.sandbox 0
com.apple.security.quarantine 0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 2.0.11
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 90.0.0
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 1.7.4a1
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction 17
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.0.3
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 3.4.0a20
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction 14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction 20
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 73.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 2.2f18
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.2
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.7.0fc16
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily 40
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 1.7.4a1
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 1.7.4a1
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.0.1d2
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.0
com.apple.driver.CSRUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.2f18
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.2f18
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 2.2f18
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 3.7.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 3.7.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 3.7.5
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 2.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 402.1
com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport 2.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 2.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 3.7.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 3.7.8
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.3.0
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 300.20
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 1.8
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.6.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 6
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 281
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.3
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.3.0
Model: MacBook4,1, BootROM MB41.00C1.B00, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.1 GHz, 2 GB, SMC 1.31f0
Graphics: Intel GMA X3100, GMA X3100, Built-In, 144 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x88), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.19)
Bluetooth: Version 2.2.0f18, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD2500BEVS-00UST0, 232.89 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITACD-RW CW-8221
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8501, 0xfd400000
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0229, 0x5d200000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x5d100000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8205, 0x1a100000
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I'm getting the exact same error with a fresh install of Snow Leopard.

I'm using it right now, with only the AC adapter plugged in, but it exhibits all the symptoms of RSS when the battery is attached. It was A-OK when using Leopard.

Anyone have any advice?
 
Safari Stand, Greasekit and now--yay!--SafariBlock have been updated to handle 64 bit!11!
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--J.D.
 
I followed your answer yesterday about Printer Utility. It now works for my CX8400, but I still cannot get it on the Photo 1280. I installed Rosetta twice, but cannot find it on my hard disk. What can I do now?
 
I searched your website, and I couldn't find what I'm looking for.

I have two computers: iMac Leopard and a non-Intel G5 desktop Tiger 10.4.11.

I plan to buy an "Apple Mac Box Set Family with Snow Leopard Upgrade" (MC210Z/A) for my iMac.

Will I able to install iLife '09 and iWork '09 on my G5 desktop without Snow Leopard Upgrade installation on the DVD?

My G5 has an old iWork '08 in the hard disk.
 
Folks,
i am trying to find out if anyone here (or wherever you can point me) is at all concerned about Apple's complete failure to address the 32bit EFI "issue" on the Mac Pro. I'll get to the "why do you need that" later. What I want to know (and yes I have already written to Jobs and got a response from Wiley Hodges [OSX Product Marketing Director]) is why Apple has hobbled my flagship product (Mac Pro, Quad Xeon, 8 gig memory) with a 32bit EFI. Imagine my surprise when SL came out and I don't have 64bit kernel support!

Now why do I need it? I use almost all the apps listed in the following performance review, and hence am missing out on some serious performance increases! http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-Performance.html

Apple's response has been nil. No, we don't know when, if at all, we will deign to address this. I am seriously rethinking my $7000+ investment in Apple hardware/software and my Apple evangelism (I go back to the Apple ][)

Oh, and yes, I am aware of the Chameleon workaround, but really question why I need to go this route. If some folks out on the 'net can do this, why can't Apple?

Would love to hear from any other Mac Pro 1.1 users!

Regards,
A former Apple evangelist
 
All,
I have done a SL clean install on my MBP and find a big difference in performance (no benchmarks tho) over the upgrade. Interested to hear if anyone else has seen the same.

-ML
 
All,
I am looking for a third party app to migrate my apps back from a restore, with *all* of the registration info intact (unlike migration assistant, which I don't think did *any* of my apps, accept Apple)

Regards,
-ml
 
Different applications store their registration/serial number information in different places. There is no "standard" way to store registration information -- Adobe does it via files located in an "Application Support" folder. Software from the company Panic stores registration information in an obfuscated way inside of application preference (plist) files. Microsoft does it with a combination of hidden files, preference files, and proprietary data files, all located in different places on your hard drive. Yet other pieces of software store their registration information inside the application bundle itself.

Ask 5 different software developers where the best place to store registration information would be, and I'd be willing to bet that you get 5 completely different answers.

What you're asking for would be a significant and huge, nearly impossible task, as there's really no telling how or where an application stores its registration information. I'm sure a database could be built that would address this, but then again, that's a significant and huge undertaking, the least of which would be first compiling a database of every, single application ever written for Mac OS X. That, in and of itself, would not be a worthwhile task for anyone, methinks.

I think your best bet would be to simply pull out your registration and serial number information from wherever you store it, and enter those serial numbers again when the application asks for it.

While this doesn't address your current dilemma, it may help with this same problem in the future: there are more than a couple applications available for Mac OS X that are specifically written to store your serial numbers for various pieces of software. This requires you to enter the application and the registration information into that helper application, but then pulling that information out again when you need it (like you do now) is easy and painless.
 
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I have that application . . . it is a screenshot of the registration information all stored in a file on a different hard drive and burned to a DVD.

:)

--J.D.
 
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