Update from 10.5.5 to 10.5.7 crashed the system

rfk · June 30, 2009

Hello everybody. Recently I installed iDeneb 10.5.5 on my system (for specs see signature). Unfortunately it was lacking support for my HD 4870 so I searched the internet and found out that the drivers for this card are included in the 10.5.7 release. Hence I downloaded the iDeneb Combo Update Kit and installed it rightaway. Unfortunately the system doesn't come back up after rebooting:

Using the "anv" or "voodoo" kernels didn't work either. Nor does safe mode (-x -v). I can access the file system through "-s" and I made a backup of /System/Library/Extensions before updating. Any ideas what to do next?

Thanks in advance.

Marclh · June 30, 2009

You need the AppleDecrypt.kext file, or dsmos.kext.

rfk · June 30, 2009

Thanks for your quick reply! Adding AppleDecrypt.kext did the trick, now I can boot into safe mode successfully.

Unfortunately normal mode (-v) does not work yet:

Do I need any drivers for my HD 4870? I thought there was native support for it in 10.5.7? But anyways, I searched the web for all errors on the screen but I couldn't find anything relevant. How can I find the cause of this problem? Thanks.

Beerkex'd · July 1, 2009

I see lots of 'family specific matching fails' messages.

You are not using skge.kext by any chance, are you?

When I got rid of that, those messages disappeared (I still get a few from the nVidia drivers).

Some kind of hardware conflict I guess.

rfk · July 1, 2009

Thanks! :unsure: Actually I really was using "skge.kext" and after removing that extension most of the errors are gone now. But the system still doesn't boot in normal mode:

My guess is the "display: family specific matching fails" error. Maybe the driver for my graphics card doesn't work? If that is the case, where can I get a proper driver from? Or is it the power management error?

Any help is still appreciated.

Beerkex'd · July 1, 2009

My guess is the "display: family specific matching fails" error.

No, don't worry about that one, it's not important. Thanks for confirming my suspicion about skge.kext - looks like you don't have to rely on it since you seem to have Realtek LAN hardware as well, so at least that's one down...

Try disabling on board hardware (LAN, Sound, other stuff) one by one and then reboot (keep booting with -v so you can see what's happening) and see if anything changes. It's easier and faster than deleting files. The drivers won't be loaded if the devices are disabled in the BIOS.

If it keeps doing the same thing at least you will know it's (probably :-) not caused by the devices you tried to disable.

rfk · July 2, 2009

Unfortunately disabling everything (USB, Sound, S-ATA, Network) in the BIOS didn't help anything at all (well except for making me get an old PS2 keyboard from the basement to re-enable my (USB-)keyboard afterwards ). My system.log is as follows:

Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: npvhash=4095
 Jul  2 19:32:51 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: BootCacheControl: could not open /var/db/BootCache.playlist: No such file or directory
 Jul  2 19:32:51 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: BootCacheControl: could not unlink playlist /var/db/BootCache.playlist: Unknown error: -1
 Jul  2 19:32:51 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
 Jul  2 19:32:51 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.usbmuxd): Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions
 Jul  2 19:32:51 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd): Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
 Jul  2 19:32:51 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd): Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
 Jul  2 19:32:51 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (org.x.privileged_startx): Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kextd[10]: 0 cached, 428 uncached personalities to catalog
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: PAE enabled
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: 64 bit mode enabled
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Tue Mar 31 22:52:17 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.12.14~1/RELEASE_I386
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 974669 free pages and 73907 wired pages
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 79
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Skipping duplicate extension "com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA" with older/same  version (2.0.0 -> 2.0.0).
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style.
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=1 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=2 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=3 LocalApicId=2 Enabled
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=4 LocalApicId=3 Enabled
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Loading security extension com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Loading security extension com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Loading security extension com.apple.security.seatbelt
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for mb
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Seatbelt MACF policy initialized
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt Policy (mb)
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Extension "com.apple.driver.ApplePCIConfigurator" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style.
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style.
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: mbinit: done
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Security auditing service present
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: BSM auditing present
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style.
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: From path: "uuid", 
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting for boot volume with UUID 6E9A79D2-3BF8-3F96-964D-0F38990C5452
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: AppleVIAATADriver: VIA UNKNOWN (CMD 0xdc00, CTR 0xd880, IRQ 16, BM 0xd400)
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/P0P8@1C,4/IOPCI2PCIBridge/pci11ab,6121@0/AppleVIAATARoot/CHN0@0/AppleVIAATADriver/ATADeviceNub@0/AppleATADiskDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/MAXTOR 6L060J3 MAXTOR 6L060J3/IOFDiskPartitionScheme/Untitled 1@1
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk1s1, major 14, minor 4
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: unknown-dev: journal start/end pointers reset! (jnl 0x6354f00; s 0x1c0c00 e 0x1c0c00)
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Extension "com.apple.driver.iTunesPhoneDriver" has no explicit kernel dependency; using version 6.0.
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kernel linker.
 Jul  2 19:32:52 localhost kernel[0]: Resetting IOCatalogue.
 Jul  2 19:32:55 localhost kernel[0]: USBF:	5.356	AppleUSBUHCI: unable to initialize UIM
 Jul  2 19:32:57 localhost bootlog[36]: BOOT_TIME: 1246555969 0
 Jul  2 19:32:58 localhost rpc.statd[18]: statd.notify - no notifications needed
 Jul  2 19:32:58 localhost fseventsd[27]: bumping event counter to: 0x1f9f (current 0x0) from log file '00000000000006cd'
 Jul  2 19:33:00 localhost DirectoryService[32]: Launched version 5.7 (v514.25)
 Jul  2 19:33:01 localhost socketfilterfw[39]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
 Jul  2 19:33:07 localhost DirectoryService[32]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
 Jul  2 19:33:07 localhost securityd[19]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
 Jul  2 19:33:07 localhost diskarbitrationd[31]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
 Jul  2 19:33:07 localhost configd[34]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
 Jul  2 19:33:07 localhost kernel[0]: display: family specific matching fails
 Jul  2 19:33:08 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 0
 Jul  2 19:33:08 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 1
 Jul  2 19:33:08: --- last message repeated 4 times ---
 Jul  2 19:33:08 localhost kernel[0]: display: family specific matching fails
 Jul  2 19:33:08 localhost ifcstart[25]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
 Jul  2 19:33:08 CARL configd[34]: setting hostname to "CARL.local"
 Jul  2 19:33:09 CARL CoreRAIDServer[33]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
 Jul  2 19:33:10 CARL org.ntp.ntpd[14]: Error : nodename nor servname provided, or not known
 Jul  2 19:33:10 CARL ntpdate[57]: can't find host time.euro.apple.com
 Jul  2 19:33:10 CARL ntpdate[57]: no servers can be used, exiting
 Jul  2 19:33:11 CARL kernel[0]: display: family specific matching fails
 Jul  2 19:33:11 CARL mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-176.3 (Jan 27 2009 14:51:58)[22]: starting
 Jul  2 19:33:11 CARL com.apple.usbmuxd[15]: usbmuxd-167 built for iTunesEightTwo on May 11 2009 at 13:36:48, running 32 bit
 Jul  2 19:33:11 CARL kernel[0]: ALCinject: Starting.
 Jul  2 19:33:11 CARL /usr/sbin/ocspd[76]: starting
 Jul  2 19:33:11 CARL kernel[0]: ALCinject: Setting built-in=<data not shown>
 Jul  2 19:33:12 CARL kernel[0]: ALCinject: Setting layout-id=<data not shown>
 Jul  2 19:33:12 CARL kernel[0]: display: family specific matching fails
 Jul  2 19:33:12 CARL kernel[0]: ** Device in slot: SLOT--1 **
 Jul  2 19:33:12 CARL mDNSResponder[22]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
 Jul  2 19:33:13 CARL kernel[0]: AppleRTL8169Ethernet: Ethernet address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
 Jul  2 19:33:15 CARL kernel[0]: NTFS driver 2.1 [Flags: R/O].
 Jul  2 19:33:15 CARL kernel[0]: NTFS volume name c, version 3.1.
 Jul  2 19:33:15 CARL kernel[0]: NTFS volume name d, version 3.1.
 Jul  2 19:33:15 CARL kernel[0]: ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out
 Jul  2 19:33:15 CARL kernel[0]: ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::getCPU_PSSData - _PSS evaluation failed
 Jul  2 19:33:16: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
 Jul  2 19:33:16 CARL kernel[0]: NTFS volume name e, version 3.1.
 Jul  2 19:33:24 CARL kextd[10]: writing kernel link data to /var/run/mach.sym

I could get rid of the "unable to determine UUID for host" errors with the NetworkInterfaces.plist "patch". But the system still refuses to boot in normal mode.

Any other ideas?

Beerkex'd · July 2, 2009

It looks mostly fine, at least it passes mbinit and loads sound and LAN without complaining too much.

Try and find a disabler.kext that disables ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.

rfk · July 2, 2009

Should the ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::getCPU_PSSData error messages disappear when the Disabler.kext is installed? I'm asking this because they still show up during booting although the kext is installed. The login window still doesn't appear but I have another message at the bottom of my system.log now:

[...]

Jul 2 19:42:35 CARL kernel[0]: ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out

Jul 2 19:42:35 CARL kernel[0]: ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::getCPU_PSSData - _PSS evaluation failed

Jul 2 19:42:37: --- last message repeated 3 times ---

Jul 2 19:42:37 CARL loginwindow[23]: Login Window Started Security Agent

Jul 2 19:42:40 CARL SecurityAgent[96]: NSExceptionHandler has recorded the following exception:\nNSRangeException -- *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0)\nStack trace: 0x3719a 0x939fde3b 0x904ffe8b 0x904ffeca 0x93323fdf 0x932a1798 0x6f8b9 0x700f8 0x59545 0x6db76 0x6170a 0x62a59 0x644de 0x62291 0x60dbf 0x66722 0x7677e 0xd648 0x12c40 0x129f3 0xd18a 0x932e0da3 0x904621c5 0x90486888 0x90486c78 0x9160528c 0x916050a5 0x91604f19 0x94434d0d 0x944345c0 0x9442d5fb 0x10fc7 0x202a 0x1

Jul 2 19:42:45 CARL kextd[10]: writing kernel link data to /var/run/mach.sym

Beerkex'd · July 4, 2009

I don't think that error message is important, it's probably complaining because AppleIntelCPUPM doesn't get loaded now.

I've seen the same message before on working systems using Disabler.kext.

I don't think it will help with your boot problem (you never know) but check that your System.kext matches your Kernel version.

If you're using a 9.7.0 kernel, make sure System.kext is also version 9.7. Check versions in System Profiler -> Extensions, or right click -> get info on the kernel extension.

rfk · July 4, 2009

The System.kext is also of version 9.7.0. From /System/Library/Extensions/System.kext/version.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	 <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	 <plist version="1.0">
	 <dict>
		 <key>BuildVersion</key>
		 <string>1</string>
		 <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
		 <string>9.7.0</string>
		 <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
		 <string>9.7.0</string>
		 <key>ProjectName</key>
		 <string>xnu</string>
		 <key>SourceVersion</key>
		 <string>12281214</string>
	 </dict>
	 </plist>

Somehow I am missing clear error statements... :thumbsdown_anim:

rfk · July 4, 2009

When I boot the system with "-v -f" (and only when the "-f" parameter is present every time!?) the highlighted message about the login window application appears (see image below). Furthermore, can you see the artifacts on the top right? I can move them with my mouse so there seems to be some sort of window manager running.

How can I configure the graphics driver to be used on Mac OS X? I think that during Safe Mode some generic drivers are loaded.

Beerkex'd · July 4, 2009

Hmm it looks like it may be the video drivers or the injector you are using that is causing this.

Try getting rid of it (and put vanilla ATI kexts back in if the drivers themselves were modified).

Then try Netkas' new universal injector (It works for both ATI and Nvidia cards)

http://netkas.org/?p=107

rfk · July 4, 2009

Well I didn't modify any video driver at all. It was a plain iDeneb 10.5.5 installation with the Combo Upgrade to 10.5.7 afterwards (from which I hoped it would support my HD 4870). So should I boot into Safe Mode and install the Netkas driver package from there?

At the moment I have the following ATI extensions installed:

# ls -1d *ATI*

ATINDRV.kext

ATIRNDRV.kext

ATIRadeon.kext

ATIRadeon8500.kext

ATIRadeon8500DVDDriver.bundle

ATIRadeon8500GA.plugin

ATIRadeon8500GLDriver.bundle

ATIRadeon8500VADriver.bundle

ATIRadeon9700.kext

ATIRadeon9700DVDDriver.bundle

ATIRadeon9700GA.plugin

ATIRadeon9700GLDriver.bundle

ATIRadeon9700VADriver.bundle

ATIRadeonDVDDriver.bundle

ATIRadeonGA.plugin

ATIRadeonGLDriver.bundle

ATIRadeonX1000.kext

ATIRadeonX1000GA.plugin

ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver.bundle

ATIRadeonX1000VADriver.bundle

ATIRadeonX2000.kext

ATIRadeonX2000GA.plugin

ATIRadeonX2000GLDriver.bundle

ATIRadeonX2000VADriver.bundle

Am I supposed to remove (some of) them? Thanks.

rfk · July 4, 2009

Installing Netkas' driver package in Safe Mode solved my problems! The system now boots correctly and I have full HD 4870 support (with QE/CI)!

Thank you so much for your help!

Update from 10.5.5 to 10.5.7 crashed the system

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