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    10.5.4 + 5 kernel panics

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by r0k, Jul 8, 2008.

  1. r0k

    r0k Notebook Evangelist

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    This morning, I started software update to get 10.5.4. I came home from work to find a kernel panic on my screen. I called Apple and they haven't heard of this problem. I downloaded the Time Machine 7.3.2 firmware update while the Apple guy was on the phone.

    It seems that as soon as Time Machine starts I get a kernel panic. Bummer. Now I've gone and disabled TM but I can't live like this for very long. Anybody else heard of problems with 10.5.4 and Time Machine?
     
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  2. WilliamG

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    No such issue here.... Running 10.5.4 with my 500GB Time Capsule.
     
    WilliamG, Jul 8, 2008
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  4. r0k

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    Yep, that's the problem I'm having. Disk repair fails to repair the sparsebundle. So I'm going to nuke all my TM backups since March. This is counterintuitive. I've MANUALLY backed my user folder up to a usb drive. This doesn't reflect well on Time Machine. 1-sparsebundles can be corrupted by a simple thing like allowing your machine to sleep. 2-a corrupt sparsebundle can lead to a kernel panic. I fully expect a 10.5.4.something update to fix this any day now. This is something the Apple user community simply cannot live with for any length of time.
     
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    I haven't had a problem with 10.5.4 except for the spaces lagging on many cases. Why don't you try cleaning your system with ****tail or onyx. Maybe that will help.
     
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  6. r0k

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    It was a corrupt sparsebundle file. If you allow your system to sleep and that sleep occurs during a TM backup, it can corrupt the disk image on the Time Capsule. This is really poor software design. In the windows world, the equivalent of this situation would be a BSOD caused by a backup being interrupted by power saver. Not an acceptable situation. I would expect a software update to address this glaring problem.

    Anyway, with level 3 support on the phone last night I did the following:
    1 - connect usb drive and manually copied my home folder to the usb drive (60 gig)
    2 - deleted the sparsebundle for this machine from the time capsule
    3 - started Time Machine backup and it completed overnight just fine - no more kernel panics. Sleep is disabled on all my macs. This all started because I enabled sleep on my main machine when I was out of town for 2 weeks. Now I know I must first disable time machine and then enable sleep. Not intuitive at all.
     
    r0k, Jul 9, 2008
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