Longtime lurker, first time poster. I hope you guys could help me out.

I've been having problems with my MBP crashing, usually during startup, for a while now. It's driving me bonkers.

I've done archive & reinstall, fixed permissions, hardware scans, PRAM and PMU resets. The whole 9. I don't get a kernel crash with the shut down screen, instead it goes black and the fans spin like mofos.


I think I've isolated it to kextcache but have no idea WTF this is. Anyway, my crash log is attached.




Would really, really appreciate some help/advice. MTIA

It's safe to delete it, it will be rebuilt automatically.

If you don't like the hands-on approach, download and install Leopard Cache Cleaner and do a complete cleanout, that should take care of it.
http://www.northernsoftworks.com/leopardcachecleaner.html

Thanks for the reply.

Two questions:

1.) How do I delete kextcache?? I've removed the Extensions.kextcache and the Extensions.mkext files several times but the problem keeps reoccurring.

2.) I have a copy of OnyX already. Is LCC any different/better?

Thanks again

1. it says right there in your crash log what you need to delete. Look at the line where it says "path".

2. Try it and see. I've never had Onyx installed so I couldn't say.

I got a copy of LCC and tried it, as well as deleting the kextcache file. Unfortunately the problem persists, and thus my diagnosis was off the mark.

Thanks a ton for your help Beerkex'd. I think I'm going to start a new thread and see if someone can help me figure this out.

Edit to add: New thread here. (I really need help, so please read. Thanks! )