This issue seems to have finally been solved using AppleJack. Perhaps a discussion on correcting a 3rd party vendor's Ownership and Permissions might be up for comments. M-Audio is hinting at - as their suggested method of completing their installation: run their installer, then run Repair Permissions.
Special thanks to Dan for looking over my Panic Logs and Apple System Profiler reports. This has been bugging me for months ... Additional response below ... On Mar 21, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Dan wrote: > > Bill sent me the m-audio driver and his panic & crash logs... > > At 4:58 PM -0400 3/19/2009, insightinmind wrote: >> Running AppleJack may have solved the problem. > At 8:58 AM -0400 3/20/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: >> I had another Blue Screen freeze this AM. May be not related to the >> M-Audio drivers? I may have restarted too quickly one time, and its possible Spotlight was still running? or actually, I was trying to access the Dock too quickly, before everything had finished loading ... seemed to remember having a kp at that point this time ... > > Half the panic logs point to the M-Audio driver. > > The other half point to the VIDEO card! Not good. Try pulling that > card and making sure all the contacts are clean, etc. If you have a > diff video card you can try, that might be helpful. The other half ... goodness. I only thought when I changed video cards (from a new ATI Radeon 9800 Pro ME back to the Geforce 4MX) did I get a kp ... which seemed to straighten itself out with several restarts. After AppleJack, I'm back to using the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro ME, along with a replacement M-Audio 2496, my Rosewill NIC and Sonnet USB/FW with no Startup issues. I think both my video cards are ok. > > Several of the crash logs show mdworker failed. It is part of > Spotlight's indexing system. The importer being used at the time of > the crash was "com.sibelius.MDImporter.score". That suggests either > a) Sibelius' importer is buggy OR b) your disk needs repairing, and > perhaps there are some corrupted files of the type that importer is > accessing. I may need to re-install some Sibelius Save fixes ... they are OS X 10.5 specific. I switched back from 10.5 to 10.4.11 to try to escape my audio card woes ... and noticed Sibelius went bazzerk in the logs ... > >> Note: I also replaced the PRAM battery with a fresh one > > Good. I see some of the panic logs are dated 1969 - which indicates > a power manager failure. Replacing the battery is the first step to > diagnosing that. I did a PRAM Reset startup and got a kp, IIRC. That's probably the "1969 kp". But I like having a fresh battery, just the same. > > >> Anyway, it looks like the M-Audio Delta Helper folder is now being >> accessed only AFTER the loginwindow.app starts, and runs through the >> StartupItems > M-Audio Delta Helper (folder) items completely ... but >> only after the loginwindow.app. Previously, it looked like it was >> trying to start, and failed, before loginwindow.app ... then if it >> tried again, it would run to completion. Make sense? > > Ok. Can't tell - you didn't send any system.log files. The two Apple System Profiler reports in the first sitx "Bill Connelly's Hearing Problems.sitx", were a Before and After snapshot, and should have contained the logs. Don't spx files contain the logs? ___BlueScreen.spx and ___AppleJackedStartRestart.spx files. I believe I sent additional info/logs in a second sitx file, but things seem to be working now, so we can move on to another day ... really seems to be working now. Multiple restarts and cold boots ... no issues. Thanks for your additional help. Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
