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iMac 27" Core i5 Issues - Help Required

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AstroGamer

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Dec 14, 2010
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Hi everyone, been lurking on these forums for a whilst but have now registered.

I'm having some serious issues with my iMac for a few months now. Apple were kind enough to replace the entire machine with a new one but im still having the issues - which is now making me wonder whether Apple was to blame at all.

I'm getting graphic pixelation on startup (which i don't mind) but whats more serious is the amount of kernal panics. Each time i've formatted the Machintosh HD drive, i've always done a time machine restore... should I be trying without this? Reason I want to use Time Machine (obviously) is because it has all my settings, user accounts and applications.

My question is - by NOT using the Time Machine, should it have an impact on the system or not i.e. the graphic pixelation and issues im having? Isn't the whole point of having time machine to save the end-user time?

Please advise.

Thanks.
 
miles01110 said:
Whatever's causing the kernel panic is likely being restored each time you reinstall from TM.
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I appreciate this, thanks.

Is there anyway to find out WHAT exactly is causing the kernal panic? Each time I get a KP, I have to restart and it gives me the option of sending this report to Apple... but the contents of the report are a different launguage to me, any software available to determine what it is.

What I don't want to do is, do a complete and fresh install of everything and then for it to reappear again ;(

Any tips would be very much be appreciated.
 
AstroGamer said:
I appreciate this, thanks.

Is there anyway to find out WHAT exactly is causing the kernal panic? Each time I get a KP, I have to restart and it gives me the option of sending this report to Apple... but the contents of the report are a different launguage to me, any software available to determine what it is.

What I don't want to do is, do a complete and fresh install of everything and then for it to reappear again ;(

Any tips would be very much be appreciated.
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Look in your console logs and see what software is throwing the KPs.
 
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FarSeide said:
Look in your console logs and see what software is throwing the KPs.
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KP just occured and I had to restart. When I booted up into OSx, it said to send report to Apple and it produced the following log. Its a diff language to me, anyone care to pin-point what the issue is:

Interval Since Last Panic Report: 112215 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: A945DFC2-C6FF-4B93-BE1E-88C1E8DD5780

Thu Dec 16 18:59:43 2010
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x2347f2): "zalloc: \"kalloc.4096\" (362 elements) retry fail 3, kfree_nop_count: 0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.7.51/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:981
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x704c39c8 : 0x21b455 (0x5d09dc 0x704c39fc 0x2238b1 0x0)
0x704c3a18 : 0x2347f2 (0x58919c 0x587bd9 0x16a 0x3)
0x704c3ab8 : 0x220570 (0x23f245c 0x1 0x0 0x0)
0x704c3af8 : 0x2205b0 (0xa00 0x1 0x0 0xffffffff)
0x704c3b18 : 0x500884 (0xa00 0x85f964 0x704c3b48 0x4138b280)
0x704c3b58 : 0x500664 (0x40582480 0x121 0x4 0x704c3bb0)
0x704c3b98 : 0x50e703 (0x40582480 0x9690a80 0x4138b280 0x120)
0x704c3bd8 : 0x50c4c8 (0x3fcb1380 0x9690a80 0x704c3c08 0x4fcdce)
0x704c3c48 : 0x50015f (0x9690a80 0x3fcb1380 0x5d2195 0x50df6a)
0x704c3c88 : 0x4fd8e0 (0x130abfc0 0x3fcb1380 0x5d9b38 0x50defd)
0x704c3cb8 : 0x50015f (0x3f1b89c0 0x3fcb1380 0x5d2195 0x3f1f87c0)
0x704c3cf8 : 0x5ddb1899 (0x3f1f87c0 0x3fcb1380 0x704c3d28 0x50df93)
0x704c3d28 : 0x50e00c (0x9163b00 0x0 0x3fcb1380 0x8faa4da)
0x704c3d48 : 0x50015f (0x9168ac0 0x3fcb1380 0x5d2195 0x38)
0x704c3d88 : 0x531fae (0x130abf40 0x3fcb1380 0x704c3dc8 0x5006d6)
0x704c3da8 : 0x533253 (0x9163b00 0x3fcb1380 0x704c3df8 0x9163b00)
0x704c3dc8 : 0x5671c5 (0x9163b00 0x3fcb1380 0x704c3de8 0x2a1591)
0x704c3e18 : 0x289f90 (0x9163b00 0x11ae78a0 0x11ae78b8 0x2105cf)
0x704c3e58 : 0x21d7f7 (0x13c86ea4 0x11ae7884 0x704c3ea8 0x1b63)
0x704c3e98 : 0x210983 (0x13c86e00 0x0 0x12165a40 0x130748c0)
0x704c3ef8 : 0x216be6 (0x13c86e00 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x704c3f78 : 0x293eb4 (0xaeb43a8 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x704c3fc8 : 0x29f48d (0xaeb43a4 0x0 0x10 0xaeb43a0)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface(74.0)@0x5ddac000->0x5ddb6fff

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: ioreg

Mac OS version:
10F2090

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.1: Fri Jul 16 23:04:20 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.7.51~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: iMac11,3 (Mac-F2238BAE)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 15574696294323
vm objects:9955220
vm object hash entri:1056720
kernel map entries:5570532
pv_list:2477328
kalloc.16:1486848
kalloc.32:702431232
kalloc.64:99721216
kalloc.128:182251520
kalloc.512:1499136
kalloc.1024:2252800
kalloc.4096:1482752
kalloc.8192:2727936
vm pages:43921900
ipc ports:1193696
vnodes:9857540
namecache:3386400
HFS node:14464780
HFS fork:5935440
buf.8192:18481152
ubc_info zone:2088960
vnode pager structur:1052640
Kernel Stacks:1900544
PageTables:25059328
Kalloc.Large:6199340
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio 2.7.3f1 (addr 0x70435000, size 0x192512) - last unloaded 12804194451802
loaded kexts:
com.vmware.kext.vmnet 3.0.0
com.vmware.kext.vmioplug 3.0.0
com.vmware.kext.vmci 3.0.0
com.vmware.kext.vmx86 3.0.0
com.sophos.kext.sav 7.2.0
com.avatron.AVExFramebuffer 1.0.0
com.vara.driver.VaraAudio 1.0.2
com.avatron.AVExVideo 1.0.0
com.apple.filesystems.afpfs 9.7 - last loaded 14033701286840
com.apple.nke.asp_tcp 5.0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.1.0
com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.12.12
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.3d0
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch 54
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.4.0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.9
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.17
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 1.2.0
com.apple.kext.ATIFramebuffer 6.1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 1.9.3f5
com.apple.ATIRadeonX3000 6.1.8
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 1.9.3f5
com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet 2.3.9b3
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros21 423.9.9
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 4.3.0d3
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.4.12
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.0.30
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader 2.5.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 303.8
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 1.6.2
com.apple.BootCache 31
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 4.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.7.1
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 4.0.2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 4.0.2
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.3.3
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.3.3
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 105.11.0
com.apple.security.sandbox 0
com.apple.security.quarantine 0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 2.1.11
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 105.11.0
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard 141
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 141
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction 17
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.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver 2.3.7f1
com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver 205.34
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 74.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 2.3.7f1
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.3
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 1.9.3f5
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.7.6fc2
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.8d0
com.apple.kext.ATI5000Controller 6.1.8
com.apple.kext.ATISupport 6.1.8
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.0.3
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily 41
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 1.9.3f5
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 1.9.3f5
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 311.1
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 1.9
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.0.1d2
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.3.0d3
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.8d0
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.2
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.2
com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.3.7f1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.3.7f1
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 2.3.7f1
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass 2.6.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 4.0.2
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 4.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 3.9.0
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 402.1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI 1.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 4.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.2.6
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 4.1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.4
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.3.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 6
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 286
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.6.2
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.3.3
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.3.0
Model: iMac11,3, BootROM IM112.0057.B00, 4 processors, Intel Core i5, 2.8 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.59f2
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5750, ATI Radeon HD 5750, PCIe, 1024 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x168C, 0x8F), Atheros 9280: 2.1.9.8.1
Bluetooth: Version 2.3.7f1, 2 service, 19 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD1001FALS-40Y6A0, 931.51 GB
Serial ATA Device: OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5680H, 591.3 MB
USB Device: Hub, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfd100000
USB Device: Hub, 0x050d (Belkin Corporation), 0x0307, 0xfd140000
USB Device: External HDD, 0x1058 (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.), 0x1001, 0xfd145000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0xfd120000
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8502, 0xfd110000
USB Device: Hub, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfa100000
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8215, 0xfa111000
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8403, 0xfa120000
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I think that the word "kalloc" that is written a lot in that log is a memory-related term. So if it's a new machine, just ask for a replacement.
 
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