Vert Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Hey guys, I just got my Hackintosh to work almost 100% under Chameleon 2.0 RC3. I have updated successfully into 10.6.1. Just when I thought I'd start using Time Machine, it doesn't backup. It would countdown as if it's preparing to do the first full system backup but when the countdown is finished, nothing happens. It will tell you when the next time of backup will be, but when that time comes still nothing happens. Has anyone meet similar issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Try putting the time machine icon into the menubar, and then clicking it and hitting "back up now." however, I've been having a problem where i can't boot my restored TM image...on a GUID partition, it gets stuck loading, and on MBR, it gets a kernel panic. If you manage to get the backup good to go, can you tell me how the restore went? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vert Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 Try putting the time machine icon into the menubar, and then clicking it and hitting "back up now." however, I've been having a problem where i can't boot my restored TM image...on a GUID partition, it gets stuck loading, and on MBR, it gets a kernel panic. If you manage to get the backup good to go, can you tell me how the restore went? Hey, I did try hitting Back Up Now but still nothing would happen except having another countdown. And of course I can't help you out with the restore yet. Thanks for chiming in though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alltoorobot Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I have the same issue. didnt try it before updating to 10.6.1 hmmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 this sounds silly and obvious, but don't forget to try repairing permissions/the disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plympton Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 There's probably a problem with your ethernet card - look in your logs for UUID errors when launching applications. I had that with my EP45-UD3R motherboard using the built-in Ethernet - no Time Machine backups. I slapped in a PCI Ethernet card, disabled on-board ethernet, and boom, worked like a charm. Tried all the UUID.kext stuff to no avail. -Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS8 Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 PlatformUUID.kext from http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181903 did the trick for me on my GA-EP45-DQ6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerhold Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 PlatformUUID.kext from http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181903 did the trick for me on my GA-EP45-DQ6. Thanks LS8 that was it - now all is fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vert Posted September 17, 2009 Author Share Posted September 17, 2009 PlatformUUID.kext from http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181903 did the trick for me on my GA-EP45-DQ6. Wow, that kext is exactly what I needed... Time Machine backs up beautifully after installing it! Thanks for all your input, good sirs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alltoorobot Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Wow, that kext is exactly what I needed... Time Machine backs up beautifully after installing it! Thanks for all your input, good sirs! what is your system config vert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alltoorobot Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 I have the same problem as you Vert. I used that platformuuid kext too. makes a new back up of the entire system again Looking for a fix now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alltoorobot Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 I have the same problem as you Vert. I used that platformuuid kext too. makes a new back up of the entire system again Looking for a fix now http://bluedog.com.au/default/Welcome.html this widget reports Starting standard backup Couldn't find en0. Backing up to: /Volumes/1500/Backups.backupdb Couldn't find en0. Backup content size: 4.6 GB excluded items size: 554.5 MB for volume Sn0W No pre-backup thinning needed: 4.88 GB requested (including padding), 719.16 GB available Indexer unavailable (200) Copied 6 files (18.3 MB) from volume Sn0W. Couldn't find en0. Backup canceled. and the next back up Starting standard backup Couldn't find en0. Backing up to: /Volumes/1500/Backups.backupdb Couldn't find en0. Backup content size: 4.6 GB excluded items size: 547.8 MB for volume Sn0W No pre-backup thinning needed: 4.88 GB requested (including padding), 719.15 GB available Indexer unavailable (200) Copied 87224 files (3.6 GB) from volume Sn0W. No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 715.68 GB available Indexer unavailable (200) Copied 130 files (97 KB) from volume Sn0W. Starting post-backup thinning No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist Couldn't find en0. Backup completed successfully. see what this widget reports about your Time Machine Vert I bet we have similar issues. anyone see any clues? I tried searching for some of the reports but got nothing much L8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digital_dreamer Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 http://bluedog.com.au/default/Welcome.html this widget reports Starting standard backup Couldn't find en0. Backing up to: /Volumes/1500/Backups.backupdb Couldn't find en0. Backup content size: 4.6 GB excluded items size: 554.5 MB for volume Sn0W No pre-backup thinning needed: 4.88 GB requested (including padding), 719.16 GB available Indexer unavailable (200) Copied 6 files (18.3 MB) from volume Sn0W. Couldn't find en0. Backup canceled. and the next back up Starting standard backup Couldn't find en0. Backing up to: /Volumes/1500/Backups.backupdb Couldn't find en0. Backup content size: 4.6 GB excluded items size: 547.8 MB for volume Sn0W No pre-backup thinning needed: 4.88 GB requested (including padding), 719.15 GB available Indexer unavailable (200) Copied 87224 files (3.6 GB) from volume Sn0W. No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 715.68 GB available Indexer unavailable (200) Copied 130 files (97 KB) from volume Sn0W. Starting post-backup thinning No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist Couldn't find en0. Backup completed successfully. see what this widget reports about your Time Machine Vert I bet we have similar issues. anyone see any clues? I tried searching for some of the reports but got nothing much L8 Hmmm. Have you tried adding a Ethernet EFI string to your boot.plist? I wonder what's taking up en0 or what port your current Ethernet is taking up (You can look at your NetworkInterfaces.plist in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration) regards, MAJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alltoorobot Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Hmmm. Have you tried adding a Ethernet EFI string to your boot.plist?I wonder what's taking up en0 or what port your current Ethernet is taking up (You can look at your NetworkInterfaces.plist in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration) regards, MAJ I used efi studio to add my ethernet card for snow. I had to do this for 10.5 to get the time machine working. It didnt fix the my issues though. the report: Couldn't find en0 This has something to do with my network interface? I would think Adding a string would have fix the prob. Thanks for the input Digital_Dreamer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King D Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Hey guys, I just got my Hackintosh to work almost 100% under Chameleon 2.0 RC3 with the hardware spec as follows: Intel E8500 C2D 3.16GHz Gigabyte EP45-UD3R OCZ 8GB ram GF9800 GTX+ 512MB I have updated successfully into 10.6.1. Just when I thought I'd start using Time Machine, it doesn't backup. It would countdown as if it's preparing to do the first full system backup but when the countdown is finished, nothing happens. It will tell you when the next time of backup will be, but when that time comes still nothing happens. Has anyone meet similar issues? The issue I am having is that when I open up Time Machine no drive appears for me to select where I want to back up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haihu Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Hey guys, I'm having the exact same problem with my TM continuously backing up my entire system. I made a post about it in the 10.6 Install forum to no avail. I found this post after looking at my log file and also seeing the "couldn't find en0" error. I checked my library/preferences/systemconfig/preferences.plist and saw that airport is set as en0. I'm using a DWA-542 wireless n card which only works with a 32bit kext (used to work out of the box in Leopard). I'm on a Shutte XPC SG31G2 with vanilla 10.6 / chameleon 2 RC3 and have the following kexts installed: NVEnabler dsmos IOATAFamily IONetworkingFamily NullCPUPowerManagement OpenHaltRestart PlatformUUID Sleepenabler VoodooHDA Anyone else have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haihu Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 After looking around the forum some more I think the problem may be that my airport is set as en0 and lan set as en1. I've read several times that lan has to be set as en0 for TM to work properly. Currrently my networkinterface.plist reads as: Interfaces Active BSD Name en0 IOBuiltin IOInterfaceType 6 IOInterfaceUnit 0 IOMACAddress ABsR6G6P IOPathMatch IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/HUB0@1E/IOPCI2PCIBridge/pci168c,23@9/AirPort_AthrFusion/AtherosFusionInterface SCNetworkInterfaceType IEEE80211 Active BSD Name en1 IOBuiltin IOInterfaceType 6 IOInterfaceUnit 1 IOMACAddress ADAbgeDe IOPathMatch IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/PEX1@1C,1/IOPCI2PCIBridge/ethernet@0/yukon2osx/yukon/IOEthernetInterface SCNetworkInterfaceType Ethernet I'm a little confused as to how I should go about correcting this though. Would switching en0 and en1 be as simple as editing the networkinterface.plist? I don't want to chance it blindly crash my computer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estravagancia Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Hi, this is my report Starting standard backup Couldn't find en0. Backing up to: /Volumes/backup/Backups.backupdb Couldn't find en0. Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Snow Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db| No pre-backup thinning needed: 3.66 GB requested (including padding), 31.24 GB available Copied 29117 files (2.4 GB) from volume Snow. No pre-backup thinning needed: 793.1 MB requested (including padding), 28.59 GB available Copied 363 files (333 KB) from volume Snow. Starting post-backup thinning No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist Couldn't find en0. Backup completed successfully. I think the difference is "Indexer unavailable (200)" I have spotlight indexing all my discs without none of them in Private. Best regards from Spain. I apologize for my english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alltoorobot Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Hi, this is my report Starting standard backup Couldn't find en0. Backing up to: /Volumes/backup/Backups.backupdb Couldn't find en0. Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Snow Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db| No pre-backup thinning needed: 3.66 GB requested (including padding), 31.24 GB available Copied 29117 files (2.4 GB) from volume Snow. No pre-backup thinning needed: 793.1 MB requested (including padding), 28.59 GB available Copied 363 files (333 KB) from volume Snow. Starting post-backup thinning No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist Couldn't find en0. Backup completed successfully. I think the difference is "Indexer unavailable (200)" I have spotlight indexing all my discs without none of them in Private. Best regards from Spain. I apologize for my english to all you with this problem, there is a way around it. I went out and bought a USB ethernet unit. Radio shack had one for 25 (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2806154), thats the exact one I got. Get that and turn off your on-board ethernet card in your bios. Make sure you can do that 1st. My gigabyte had no prob turning on board ethernet off. and dats how I solved it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morndry Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 I too am getting the "can't find en0" popping up in the logs. Turned off LAN in bios, TM did not work. Added a PCI Ethernet card, and that did not work either. TM just sits in my menubar. Mocking me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alltoorobot Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 I too am getting the "can't find en0" popping up in the logs. Turned off LAN in bios, TM did not work. Added a PCI Ethernet card, and that did not work either.TM just sits in my menubar. Mocking me. So your using this new pci lan for internet now? Just to be clear. Nice Avatar btw BSG rocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinush Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Had the same problem ad <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key> <string>y</string> In the com.apple.Boot.plist T. edit; ok the en0 error was from the dsdt.aml can be fixed with netkas pc efi 10.3 and boot.plist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morndry Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 So your using this new pci lan for internet now? Just to be clear. Nice Avatar btw BSG rocks I went back to using the built in ethernet port, and found a PlatformUUID.kext made for my board here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=183637 I added my UUID to that and volá, now it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haihu Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 I'm trying the PlatformUUID update method by adding my hardware UUID, but after a reboot, my hardware UUID changes in the system profiler! I thought this value wasn't supposed to change at all. Can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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