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Luhmann 01-26-2005 07:58 AM

Kernal Panic
 
After reading all the great reviews of SuperDuper! I thought I'd give it a try. Unfortunately, every time I use it to duplicate a disk it ends in a Kernal Panic. At first I thought it might be a bug in 10.3.4, so I upgraded to 10.3.7, but the same thing happens. It seems to happen AFTER the backup is complete. That is, I think it does successfully duplicate the drive - but then my computer crashes when it is done. This does not happen to me when I duplicate a drive using DiskUtility or CarbonCopyCloner - it seems to be specific to SuperDuper! and it is reproducible every time I run a backup. I have included the log file from my last backup below.
Code:

[***] Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:53:58 PM America/New_York
|10:53:58 PM|Info| SuperDuper!, version 73, path: /Applications/MyApps/My Utilities/SuperDuper/SuperDuper!.app, OS: 10.3.7 (7S215)
|10:53:58 PM|Info| Source Drive: /, name: Macintosh HD, device: /dev/disk0s9 type: hfs, OS: 10.3.7 (7S215), capacity: 27.94 GB, used: 26.68 GB, directories: 51673, files: 288484
|10:53:58 PM|Info| Target Drive: /Volumes/Macintosh HD Backup B, name: Macintosh HD Backup B, device: /dev/disk2s2 type: hfs, OS: 10.3.4 (7H63), capacity: 37.27 GB, used: 23.08 GB, directories: 47881, files: 282191
|10:53:58 PM|Info| Copy Mode  : Erase, then copy files
|10:53:58 PM|Info| Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
|10:53:58 PM|Info| Transcript  : BuildTranscript.plist
|10:53:59 PM|Info| PHASE: Volume Preparation
|10:53:59 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Repair Permissions on Macintosh HD
|10:53:59 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Repairing permissions on Macintosh HD
|11:00:52 PM|Info|      Started verify/repair permissions on disk disk0s9 Macintosh HD
|11:00:52 PM|Info|      Determining correct file permissions.
|11:00:52 PM|Info|      We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util.  New permissions are 33261
|11:00:52 PM|Info|      The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
|11:00:52 PM|Info|      Verify/repair finished permissions on disk disk0s9 Macintosh HD
|11:00:53 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Erase Macintosh HD Backup B
|11:00:53 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Erasing Macintosh HD Backup B
|11:01:08 PM|Info|      Allocated 8192K for journal file.
|11:01:08 PM|Info|      Journaling has been enabled on /dev/disk2s2
|11:01:08 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Restoring Macintosh HD Backup B UUID (D99664CAC56005DB)
|11:01:09 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Enable Permissions
|11:01:09 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Macintosh HD
|11:01:09 PM|Info|      Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
|11:01:09 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Macintosh HD
|11:01:09 PM|Info|      Permissions on '/' are enabled.
|11:01:09 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Macintosh HD Backup B
|11:01:10 PM|Info|      Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
|11:01:10 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Macintosh HD Backup B
|11:01:10 PM|Info|      Permissions on '/Volumes/Macintosh HD Backup B' are enabled.
|11:01:10 PM|Info| PHASE: Clone from Source to Target
|11:01:10 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Copy Files from Macintosh HD to Macintosh HD Backup B
|11:01:10 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Cloning Macintosh HD to Macintosh HD Backup B
|11:01:10 PM|Info|      Copying all files using script: /Applications/MyApps/My Utilities/SuperDuper/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
|11:01:10 PM|Info|      Loading 19 commands from copy script /Applications/MyApps/My Utilities/SuperDuper/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system temporary files.dset
|11:01:10 PM|Info|      Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/MyApps/My Utilities/SuperDuper/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset
|11:01:10 PM|Info|      Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/MyApps/My Utilities/SuperDuper/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
|11:01:11 PM|Info|      Copy script command hash contains 412 commands
|11:11:46 PM|Info|      Ignoring /Temporary Items
|11:11:46 PM|Info|      Ignoring /.Trashes
|11:54:54 PM|Info|      Ignoring /.vol
|11:54:54 PM|Info|      Ignoring /Volumes/Macintosh HD Backup A
|11:54:54 PM|Info|      Ignoring /Volumes/Macintosh HD Backup B
|11:54:54 PM|Info|      Ignoring /Volumes/Icon
|11:54:54 PM|Info|      Ignoring /Volumes/Macintosh HD


dnanian 01-26-2005 08:51 AM

Hi, Luhmann. I know it sounds like an 'excuse', but SuperDuper! does not run anywhere near the Kernel level, so it's not the reason your system is Kernel Panicing. Rather, something else on your system is being triggered by SuperDuper!'s rather fast access of your I/O subsystem. The question is: what's really crashing?

It's difficult for me to know from the SuperDuper!.log, because it doesn't have any information about other programs in it.

However, 9 times out of 10, this kind of kernel panic is due to a low-level kernel extension that's trapping I/O -- usually, it's Norton AntiVirus, Norton Utilities, or something similar. (If you've got NAV, turn auto-protect off: it can't handle scanning hundreds of thousands of files at one time without crashing...)

If you'll include your panic.log -- which you'll find in /Library/Logs (off the top of your boot volume), it will hopefully point to the culprit.

Thanks!

Luhmann 01-26-2005 10:06 AM

I don't use Norton or any anti-virus software.

Interestingly, the Panic.log file doesn't show any activity from yesterday. But I'm pretty sure it qualifies as a Kernal Panic when the screen gives you that greyed out look and a box appears telling you to hold down the power button to restart your computer.

Could it be some kind of Firewire related bug?

Here is a list of my "startup items"

Palm Transport Monitor
Quicksilver
Weathermenu
iCalAlarm Scheduler
FUS++
ShadowClipboard
iTunes Helper

That's it. They've never given me problems.

dnanian 01-26-2005 10:19 AM

It could definitely be some kind of Firewire related bug.

Let's do this: generate a System Profiler report with the drive attached. Save it (with File | Save) to the default (XML) format, and send it to support at shirt-pocket dot com (don't attach it here), along with the panic log. I'll take a look and reply, and we can post a summary up here to not leave the thread hanging.

Sound reasonable?

Luhmann 01-26-2005 10:37 AM

Will do! Thanks.


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