I am trying to find out a fix for my constant computer freezes. I admit that I am new here (this is post ONE) so I apologize if this is old news in this forum but I have read some of the posts on trouble shooting where I can find them but I couldn't find the final version of the discussion. A redirect is appreciated if necessary.
My trouble is that my computer freezes constantly, sometimes 5-10 times in an hour sometimes only once in a 5 hour evening. It is usually when I am using netscape 7.2 but sometimes it is when it gets to the desktop (it stops loading) and other times I am in the splash screen loading local disks, internet or firewall extensions. It just stops.
Details : Beige tower G3 upgraded to G4 via Zif card (1998-9 ish) 466 mhz 748 MB ram. OS 10.2.6 with OS 9.2.2 in classic. 80 GB HD partitioned into 8GB for OS 10 and 65 GB storage and 4 GB holding a clean OS 9 for repair/boot protection. I also have a 30 GB HD from my old days holding a few pieces of software that won't run in the OS 10 mode because of low Vid Ram. I boot directly to this OS 9.2.2 classic mode when necessary where I have few crashes.
Thanks in advance for any help and advise.
Attempts to resolve.
I have tried to delete Netscape preferences but I can't seem to find them as I could in the old days.
Disk Utility found errors it could not fix.
I recovered a non-mounting drive that holds my OS 10 using a less than recent version of Norton Utilities fixing some catalog B-tree issues and a "thread" issue plus a few other things.
The Disk Utility says that the Errors seem to be fixed.
I have tried to reinstall the OS 10 system but for some reason I can't boot to the install CD (third party CD Rom??) from the keyboard.
I have also tried a suggested UNIX boot cmd-s typing fsck-y but I don't get any response doing the cmd-s key combo. And I know nothing of UNIX.
I have NOT updated firmware in ages as I don't have any experience doing this.
I have copied the recent crash log below. This same log appears almost all of the time except for the PID number changes.
This is my console log and crash log for today.
Console.log
Mac OS X Version 10.2.6 (Build 6L60)
Oct 6 09:25:39 localhost crashdump: Crash report written to: /Users/beachmonk/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/LSRecentTool.crash.log
Oct 6 09:26:01 localhost WindowServer[217]: CGXDisableUpdate: Updates disabled by connection 0x6d03 for over 1.000000 seconds
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LSRecentTool.crash.log
Date/Time: 2005-10-06 09:25:38 -0400
OS Version: 10.2.6 (Build 6L60)
Host: localhost
Command: LSRecentTool
PID: 579
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x000e8000
Thread 0 Crashed:
#0 0x90165558 in __CFFromUTF8
#1 0x901ac8cc in __CFStringDecodeByteStream3
#2 0x901abdcc in __CFStringCreateImmutableFunnel3
#3 0x9013ebb0 in _CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData
#4 0x9014d8a8 in _loadXMLDomainIfStale
#5 0x9014d680 in getXMLKeysAndValues
#6 0x9014d500 in computeDictRep
#7 0x9014d3cc in _CFApplicationPreferencesCreateValueForKey
#8 0x9014ba4c in CFPreferencesCopyAppValue
#9 0x00003020 in 0x3020
#10 0x00002e08 in 0x2e08
#11 0x00002cd0 in 0x2cd0
#12 0x00002968 in 0x2968
#13 0x000027e8 in 0x27e8
PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x90165558 srr1: 0x0000f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x9016539c ctr: 0x9016538c mq: 0x00000000
r0: 0x00003080 r1: 0xbffff2c0 r2: 0x24082280 r3: 0x00000800
r4: 0x0004e0cd r5: 0x000023ad r6: 0x000e7ffa r7: 0xfffffbad
r8: 0xbffff3b4 r9: 0x000e8000 r10: 0x00000008 r11: 0x00000002
r12: 0x9016538c r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000001 r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x00000800 r21: 0x0004e0cd r22: 0xbffff3b4 r23: 0x00000000
r24: 0x00000001 r25: 0x00000000 r26: 0xfffffbad r27: 0x000023a8
r28: 0x0004e0d2 r29: 0x00000001 r30: 0x000006d0 r31: 0x9016539c
hayne
10-06-2005, 11:22 AM
Here are some standard troubleshooting suggestions:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2004011205473937
http://forums.osxfaq.com/viewtopic.php?t=7269
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/faqs.html
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