red jersey Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Hello, I have installed mac 10.6.3 using iatkos s3. Everything worked fine, including wireless network, usb etc. This morning I tried to update to 10.6.4 by using the combo and I got the following kernel panic: Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies) sk.triaxis.kext.SleepEnabler What I did was, after updating to 10.6.4, instead of rebooting immediately, I have replaced the IOUSBFamily.kext.zip and IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext.zip http://www.kexts.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1010 using kext help. After rebooting, I got the above sleepenabler kernel panic. I then did some research, and I thought deleting the sleepenabler would help. I used the iatkos boot disk to go to my terminal, however I tried looking under my Extras/Extensions folder, and /System/User/Extensions folder and I couldn't even find my SleepEnabler kext to delete! Please help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulcyber Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 I just had this problem going from 10.6.6 to 10.6.7. I booted in -s, single user mode and it takes one to a terminal prompt. There are a couple of commands it said to execute. One with fsck and a mount -uw. That sleepenabler.kext is not in /System/User/Extensions but the folder path is /System/Library/Extensions. I think the command I used was sudo rm -rf sleepenabler.kext and it put sleepenabler.kext into its own folder. Also isn't that IOusbfamily.kext rollback the recommended one. I don't use iatkos, but it is recommended for [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. And I thought a .kext.zip file had to be unzipped to be installed. I use the kexthelper b7 app to install kexts, it takes care of caches and permissions. I almost forgot to mention, when the bootloader offers different choices, sometimes one needs to hit F8 to get them, the switch pmVersion=0 entered from the keyboard will block the sleepenabler kext from trying to load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red jersey Posted April 29, 2011 Author Share Posted April 29, 2011 Unfortunately it doesn't work. When I boot my pc using -s I got the kernel panic. I then use my iatkos boot disk to access my terminal and do the rm -rf to remove my SleepEnabler.text (even though it's not there). After rebooting it still has the kernel panic problem. I'll try to load the SleepEnabler.text for 10.6.4 to my pc to see if it works, if not then I'll have to restore from my time machine backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 remove my SleepEnabler.text (even though it's not there). After rebooting it still has the kernel panic problem. Have you deleted the extension.mkext(s) and/or booted with -f or -x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red jersey Posted April 29, 2011 Author Share Posted April 29, 2011 I tried booting with -f -v and even with -x still got kernel panic. I haven't tried deleting .mkext will do that. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulcyber Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Unfortunately it doesn't work. When I boot my pc using -s I got the kernel panic. I then use my iatkos boot disk to access my terminal and do the rm -rf to remove my SleepEnabler.text (even though it's not there). After rebooting it still has the kernel panic problem. I'll try to load the SleepEnabler.text for 10.6.4 to my pc to see if it works, if not then I'll have to restore from my time machine backup. You tried, -s pmVersion=0 as your switches/flags and it didn't work? sleepenabler.kext is in /System/Library/Extensions Did you navigate to that folder and issue the command, ls -ls <enter> to see if sleepenabler.kext was there? Did you issue the command, sudo rm -rf sleepenabler.kext <enter> from within the /System/Library/Extensions folder? Or if you weren't inside the /Extensions folder did you type, sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/sleepenabler.kext <enter> ? You can also use pmVersion=20 (which is right for 10.6.4) instead of the pmVersion=0 flag. ------------------------------------------------------------- "I'll try to load the SleepEnabler.text for 10.6.4 to my pc to see if it works, if not then I'll have to restore from my time machine backup." You can use the link below, it is a howto for updating to 10.6.4 with steps, and a SleepEnabler.kext download. http://www.dailyblogged.com/2271/updating-...leopard-10-6-4/ "5. Navigate to /System/Library/Extensions/ and remove IO80211Family.kext. 6. Open your com.apple.Boot.plist in /Extra/ and add pmVersion=20 as a kernel flag. (Place pmVersion=20 between <string> and </string>, found underneath <key>Kernel Flags</key>) **Do not delete any other kernel flags that may already be there** " That's after it's working. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red jersey Posted April 30, 2011 Author Share Posted April 30, 2011 Hello, 1. I didn't try -s pmVersion=0 but I did try -s pmVersion=21 on boot screen 2. I look thru both /Extra/E and /S/L/E I couldn't find sleepenabler.kext the command I use was: cd /System/Library/Extensions ls -la same for /E/E 3. when I was in the terminal I used cd to navigate the Extensions folder, then: rm -rf SleepEnabler.kext before I did that I used ls -la command and pretty sure I didn't find the SleepEnabler.kext Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulcyber Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Hello, 1. I didn't try -s pmVersion=0 but I did try -s pmVersion=21 on boot screen Is pmVersion=21 a typo, because I wrote pmVersion=20 ? http://www.dailyblogged.com/2271/updating-...leopard-10-6-4/ "6. Open your com.apple.Boot.plist in /Extra/ and add pmVersion=20 as a kernel flag." Try booting it with pmVersion=0 -v (should show on screen where panic happens in the process) If you are still getting the sk.triaxis.kext.SleepEnabler (which is shortened to sleepenabler.kext in the folder), then it stands to reason that the .kext conflict is somewhere on your computer. From the terminal you could try sudo find / -name *enabler.kext also you could possibly try sudo Kextstat | grep SleepEnabler and that should report if the search finds the problematic kext somewhere else, or more than one. It's possible not to have a sleepenabler.kext, but then I can't see why you would get that specific error message. Dellmantt thinks you should delete /Extra/Extensions.mkext and there may be another copy of Extensions.mkext in /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/ (or perhaps even in /System/Library/Extensions). sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext They can be rebuilt, it's not fatal. It's also likely that you installed sleepenabler.kext somewhere originally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red jersey Posted April 30, 2011 Author Share Posted April 30, 2011 yes, i meant pmVersion=20 I did boot with command -v pmVersion=20 I'll try deleting cache and let you know Also one question, for future update should I do it one version at a time ie. 10.6.3 to 10.6.4, then 10.6.5 ... etc or jumping from 10.6.3-10.6.7 is okay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulcyber Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 yes, i meant pmVersion=20 I did boot with command -v pmVersion=20 I'll try deleting cache and let you know Also one question, for future update should I do it one version at a time ie. 10.6.3 to 10.6.4, then 10.6.5 ... etc or jumping from 10.6.3-10.6.7 is okay? No rule for computers seems to be always true, but jumping is pretty much ok. http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/ibo...ac-os-x-on.html The is an update to 10.6.7 howto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red jersey Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 after getting lots of help and tried numerous times I am now running 10.6.6 love mac app store! thanks all for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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