XXX 10.4.11 EXC_BAD_ACCESS

geolaw · April 14, 2008

This has been my first somewhat success of installing OSX on various machines, Vmware, etc... I am coming from using a Macbook Pro at my last job for almost a year and really miss it, so I am glad to be back working on a Mac.

My hackintosh goes to show that you don't need the latest and greatest components :

Radisys LS855 Motherboard with 1.6 GHZ Pentium M

Intel 855GME Chipset with ICH4

1 GB RAM

onboard video disabled

Nvidia 6200 256 MB Video (using Titan)

AC97 Audio (using ADI1980AC97 I think)

Intel NIC (using Intel82557)

I installed from the XXX 10.4.11 DVD into Vmware under XP onto a USB drive on another computer, then booted this machine up with it and after adding the Titan kext, I was able to go all the way up to

1920x1440 on a 19" CRT. Initially I was getting full QE and everything (the "splash" effect when adding a widget was awesome), but some where along the way it seems to have stopped working.

Audio - I added 2 AC97 packages from the install DVD : ADI1980AC97.pkg and AtiSB400AC97Audio.pkg. Quiet honestly, I am not sure which one made the sound work, all I know is I rebooted and had sound.

Now for my problem...

Every now and then I get crashes...

Disk Utility will crash if I go to the "Partition" tab,

iChat crashes pretty regularly.

Safari every once in a while.

Entourage crashed the first couple times as well, but started up fine last time.

iDVD crashes everytime

Toast 9 - initially this also crashed everytime I started it, however now it just seems to hang.

iDVD shows :

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000064

Safari :

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xa097e785

Entourage :

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x59bb7902

Disk Utility :

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x81ff47ab

iChat :

iChat.crash.log:Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

iChat.crash.log-Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xd914e1a3

iTunes, System Profiler, etc... works but every once in a while I get a crash showing pretty much one of these 2 errors (invalid address or protection failure).

Any suggestions are appreciated

TIA

--

George

my "dmesg" shows :

hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000

PAE enabled

standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us

vm_page_bootstrap: 252876 free pages

mig_table_max_displ = 71

Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes

ACPI CA 20051117 [debug level=0 layer=0]

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorApicId=1 LocalApicId=1 Disabled

using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers

IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23

ACPI: System State [s0 S4 S5] (S0)

ACPI: Button driver prevents system sleep

Security auditing service present

BSM auditing present

disabled

From path: "uuid",

Waiting for boot volume with UUID D5D5F2BB-B531-3E4A-835D-3352713C18B5

Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>

2.0.38 m0ead6f57 :2

2.0.38 m7b9b743c

2.0.38 Little Snitch: start

USB caused wake event (EHCI)

AppleIntelPIIXPATA: 80-conductor cable not detected on secondary channel

Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/pci8086,24cb@1F,1/AppleIntelPIIXATARoot/CHN0@0/AppleIntelPIIXPATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/ST380021A Media/IOFDiskPartitionScheme/Untitled 1@1

BSD root: disk0s1, major 14, minor 1

jnl: replay_journal: from: 4849152 to: 8245760 (joffset 0x12d000)

ApplePS2Keyboard: probe failed

HFS: Removed 2 orphaned unlinked files

Jettisoning kernel linker.

Resetting IOCatalogue.