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Airport Kernel Panic in Leopard 9A581!

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Ok this won't be as detailed as i'd like it to be because i gotta run out to dinner so here it goes:

 

Installed 9A581 today (have a legit copy pre-ordered @ UCSD bookstore...which will be closed until Monday).

 

I keep getting the same Kernel Panic.

 

If i recall correctly, in all of the instances I had my USB WD External connected and all or most of the following apps running:

 

-Azureus

-Parallels

-Firefox

-NetNewsWire

-Adium

-iChat

 

My bandwidth would drop to zero, as indicated by Azureus speeds and Firefox hanging on page loading. This had happened to me occasionally on 10.4.10 and to solve it I would click the Airport on the Status Bar, and reselect my ALREADY CONNECTED network. I immediately attempted to click the active/connected Airport icon on the Status bar in 9A581 in order to try to reselect my network, as I did in 10.4.10; however, this repeatedly caused a Kernel Panic. Again, the Kernel Panics have occured only in this exact fassion; immediately with the click of the Airport icon. (On 2nd thought, I once tried to open the Network tab in System Pref and the same KP occured)

 

Here is a crash report of the KP:

 

Wed Oct 24 17:54:02 2007

panic(cpu 1 caller 0x0039CDE0): "m_free: freeing an already freed mbuf"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/bsd/kern/uipc_mbuf.c:2742

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

0x34917978 : 0x12b0e1 (0x4555b4 0x349179ac 0x133238 0x0)

0x349179c8 : 0x39cde0 (0x48cc84 0x1 0x5164e01c 0x0)

0x34917a08 : 0x39d0dc (0x305ce400 0x8 0x34917a58 0x1)

0x34917a28 : 0x8f8b87 (0x305ce400 0x0 0x20 0x0)

0x34917b98 : 0x8f8ec5 (0x23fba2c8 0x23fbc150 0x168c1027 0x0)

0x34917ce8 : 0x90420b (0x240b5004 0x0 0x34917d58 0x19ccc1)

0x34917e68 : 0x8d484a (0x23fba4c0 0x0 0x34917e88 0x1a136f)

0x34917eb8 : 0x8d5f3f (0x95cc80 0x95cc84 0xbfe00000 0x0)

0x34917f48 : 0x8d44b7 (0x47d8004 0x0 0x1361b0 0x19ccc1)

0x34917f78 : 0x13e987 (0x47d8494 0x47d8004 0x1a136f 0x5d49000)

0x34917fc8 : 0x19e2ec (0x0 0x0 0x1a10b5 0x47aef20)

Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):

com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros(300.22)@0x8d3000->0x95dfff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(200.7)@0x8b5000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x63b000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.6.0)@0x64b000

 

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

 

Mac OS version:

9A581

 

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 9 21:35:55 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~1/RELEASE_I386

System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)

 

 

BTW - Using 2.2GHz SR MBP

 

The only thing i was able to find about it is a plain paste of this Crash Report on some website. No helpm comments, or solutions are to be found anywhere...let's figure this out ppl...cuz it is a real shame!

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Yea, same thing happened to me. I had Azureus opened, up/down dropped to zero, clicked on the airport drop down and...kernel panic, with the same error report. No fix, just wanted to let you know you're not alone. 2GHz Blackbook.

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Yea, same thing happened to me. I had Azureus opened, up/down dropped to zero, clicked on the airport drop down and...kernel panic, with the same error report. No fix, just wanted to let you know you're not alone. 2GHz Blackbook.

 

Thanks for the reply... believe it or not I found it useful... ur mentioning of azureus inspired me to switch to Transmission.... so far so good!!!

 

We're not looking for only Programming expertise... any piece of advice can help resolve an issue! Judging by the amount of views, it seems lots of u hesitate to post....post on!

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I'm also getting the exact same KP and yes.. Azureus was running at least one of those times, probably both. Definitely the cause. Lets hope its fixed ASAP (hopefully by Apple cos I don't want to use Vuze as no doubt thats the only version that'd be fixed hehe)

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I'm also getting the exact same KP and yes.. Azureus was running at least one of those times, probably both. Definitely the cause. Lets hope its fixed ASAP (hopefully by Apple cos I don't want to use Vuze as no doubt thats the only version that'd be fixed hehe)

 

Well my Azureus 2.5 updates to the newest 3.X core w/o updating the interface....

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Interesting, I didn't know that as I always avoided that option! Thats cool cos I know places that ban Vuse due to misidentifying as Azureus (i have no idea why either...)

 

But yeah, been running the box without it running for hours now without a KP. Phew! A fix couldn't come sooner mind :D

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Interesting, I didn't know that as I always avoided that option! Thats cool cos I know places that ban Vuse due to misidentifying as Azureus (i have no idea why either...)

 

But yeah, been running the box without it running for hours now without a KP. Phew! A fix couldn't come sooner mind :)

 

 

I think i might give VUZE a shot cuz I really need some of the features that transmission lacks s/a unbeatable speeds and bandwidth limits per peer...

 

will report back...

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I think i might give VUZE a shot cuz I really need some of the features that transmission lacks s/a unbeatable speeds and bandwidth limits per peer...

 

will report back...

 

SOLVED!

 

1. Install Azureues 2.5

2. Download newest version of Azureus for Mac (3.0.3.4) and drag it to Applications folder to over-write 2.5

 

DONE

 

No Kernel Panics for hours and hours!

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Just wanted to let you guys know that I also experienced 3 kernel panics. I wasn't using Azureus (don't even have it installed) so I think it's safe to assume that's not the culprit.

 

I was listening to streaming radio on iTunes, and working remotely on some files thu Transmit + Textmate. Everytime I got the kernel panic I noticed that the music stopped, and also my transfers using Transmit to FTP. Then as soon as I clicked on the Airport icon the kernel panic would occur.

 

I've been running for hours without another one, and the only thing I did was unplug my external USB drive (I use Time Machine with that one too). So far since it's been disconnected I haven't got any more kernel panics and I'm working hard on this computer.

 

So *maybe* it's related somehow to having an external USB drive plugged...who knows. I hope they find a fix for this soon.

 

BTW: I've been reading these boards for a while, and thought that I had to share this one with you guys.

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I have not seen a kenel panic in years. However I've had two in the last 6 hours, since installing leopard. I'm not running Azureus, and neither time was I on airport (I was connected via 100bt network). Both times was when I was installing software from disk images. I just picked up a 1tb WD drive to do time machine on, and that drive has been having issues. I think I will go back to Tiger and wait out these problems. I have work to do. (system==2.4ghz MBP 15" 2gb)

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I just registered to let you guys know it's not Azureus.

 

I too have suffered 3 kernel panics total since leopard installed (Installed last friday morning 10:30 AM EST)

 

The last two times I got the panic Azureus was running. The first time I am 90% sure Azureus was NOT running. I get the exact same Airport KP as everyone else above. The panic only happens when I have my external firewire HDD connected that is used by Time Machine. Looks like the culprit is Time Machine to me.

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Well, it's not Time Machine either. I've been experiencing these kernel panics for months with various developer builds on a MacBook Pro. Right after I installed 559, I had 3 or 4 in a couple days, but then the panics stopped occurring. I have don't have Azureus installed, and I don't have Time Machine enabled.

 

The only pattern I've discerned is that it seems to be related to heavy network traffic.

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I got a kernel panic, same stuff (mentioned Atheros). Although interestingly enough, it happened with Azureus running (like was mentioned) except I powercycled my modem and router. I came back downstairs to see the kernel panic.

 

No external drives, not using Time Machine.

 

Panic:

 

Sun Oct 28 01:21:14 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0039CDE0): "m_free: freeing an already freed mbuf"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/bsd/kern/uipc_mbuf.c:2742
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack) 
0x2e48f838 : 0x12b0e1 (0x4555b4 0x2e48f86c 0x133238 0x0) 
0x2e48f888 : 0x39cde0 (0x48cc84 0x1 0x354b801c 0xffff8863) 
0x2e48f8c8 : 0x39d0dc (0x30189d00 0x8 0x2e48f918 0x1) 
0x2e48f8e8 : 0x34b92b87 (0x30189d00 0xc0a40171 0x3e8 0x52f8a4) 
0x2e48fa58 : 0x34b92ec5 (0x237af2c8 0x237b1150 0x2e48fac8 0x1991a6) 
0x2e48fba8 : 0x34b9cfe9 (0x23861004 0x0 0x2e48fbf8 0x1) 
0x2e48fc08 : 0x34ba0b0a (0x237af4c0 0x2e48fdcc 0x46 0x2) 
0x2e48fde8 : 0x34ba1fb1 (0x237af2c8 0x202 0x2e48fe18 0x3d9ec0) 
0x2e48ff18 : 0x41d143 (0x237af000 0x3c5c400 0x1 0x141082) 
0x2e48ff68 : 0x41c2a0 (0x3c5c400 0x0 0x2e48ffc8 0x13ea59) 
0x2e48ff98 : 0x41bf9a (0x40f2240 0x5036f0 0x3e31250 0x41a93c8) 
0x2e48ffc8 : 0x19e2ec (0x40f2240 0x0 0x10 0x0) 
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0
  Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
	 com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros(300.22)@0x34b6d000->0x34bf7fff
		dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(200.7)@0x2e35e000
		dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x2e228000
		dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.6.0)@0x2e33b000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
9A581

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct  9 21:35:55 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro2,2 (Mac-F42187C8)

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I am getting the exact same kernel panics as the rest of you. So far (since I installed Leopard), I have had 5 kernel panics, 3 of which occurred while Azureus was running. Therefore I believe that in fact Azureus is NOT the culprit. It has to do with the AirPort signal slowly growing weaker until it fails to connect (I remember reading about this problem on a mac rumour site, possibly Mac Rumors, or AppleInsider). But all the panics have occurred after I noticed my internet had died, and then reacted by either click the AirPort menu or launch the AirPort Utility. So I have to assume the problem is restricted just to the AirPort and hopefully a fix will be out very soon.

 

I actually found the link:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=379704

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