I know this is a long shot, but I'm hoping someone can offer some insight into this...
My Mac (10.6.2 - iMac 2006) is just stopping about every 2-4 hours. You can imagine this is not only annoying but makes it really hard to get work done. The symptom is that the system just stops. The display is on, but everything just stops responding, even the flashing ":" in the menubar clock (which I have flash for this exact reason) At first, I suspected a time machine backup corruption issue - I saw lots of backupd messages in the system log right before crash. So I shut off time machine, but it didn't change. On closer look, I saw there were also lots and lots of natd and mDNSresponder errors which still appear before the crash. I have tried this several times with nothing but Apple software running (meaning system, plus iTunes helper and other apple stuff - nothing third-party). I would appreciate suggestions on either what the log (system log just prior to crash - "lj" is my Mac's name) entries below mean or might point to, or what else I can try to stop this from happening. Thank you for whatever you can offer.... --Jeff ------------Logs: May 7 17:13:35 lj natd[92]: failed to write packet back (No route to host) May 7 17:13:50 lj natd[92]: failed to write packet back (Host is down) May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:14:22 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:15:20 lj natd[92]: failed to write packet back (No route to host) May 7 17:15:35 lj natd[92]: failed to write packet back (Host is down) May 7 17:16:23 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:16:23 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:16:23 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:16:23 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:17:05 lj natd[92]: failed to write packet back (No route to host) May 7 17:17:20 lj natd[92]: failed to write packet back (Host is down) May 7 17:18:23 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:18:23 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:18:23 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:18:23 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:18:23 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:18:23 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:18:24 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:18:24 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:18:24 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:18:24 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:18:24 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:18:24 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1) May 7 17:18:24 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - SSLRead: -9806 May 7 17:18:24 lj mDNSResponder[17]: ERROR: tcpCallback - attempt to read message length failed (-1)
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