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Old 02-06-2008, 09:28 AM
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SD stuck, other apps frozen, external HD wouldn't mount afterwards on 2.5 first run

I updated to 2.5 yesterday, and the first time I ran it and told it to do a backup from my MacBook Pro's internal hard drive to an external Maxtor firewire drive, it got stuck repairing permissions (but didn't freeze, the timer continued ticking away the seconds), and after about 10 minutes my other running applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, Terminal.app, and one other I can't recall; might have been Colloquy) all froze one after another.

I think they froze when they tried to access the filesystem. In Terminal.app, the terminal tabs froze individually when I tried to run ps or truss in them. And commands in the Apple menu like Restart and Shut Down didn't work. So I hard restarted my machine, and when it came back up it wouldn't mount my Maxtor firewire drive.

Unplugging and replugging the firewire cable didn't solve the problem, nor did turning the drive off and then back on. But after fiddling with it for a while, it worked again (I think after another restart), after which subsequent backup attempts worked fine (SD still takes a while to restore permissions, but it eventually moves past that stage, and no other apps freeze in the process).
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Old 02-06-2008, 12:41 PM
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I'm not sure what might have happened there: when we "repair permissions" we literally ask Disk Utility to do it, and wait for it to tell us that it's done. We're not doing it "ourselves" -- the checkbox is there for your convenience...
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Old 02-06-2008, 01:27 PM
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Hmm, perhaps this is a Mac OS X bug, then. In any case, things seem to be fine now, I only posted because I thought you'd want to know about the problem.
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Old 02-06-2008, 02:31 PM
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Hmm, perhaps this is a Mac OS X bug, then. In any case, things seem to be fine now, I only posted because I thought you'd want to know about the problem.
It seems to be a Leopard bug. Check the link provided:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....81398&#5881398
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Old 02-06-2008, 06:41 PM
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Dave,
I've tried three additional backups since my post earlier and they all end the same way. Starts OK but eventually comes to a crawl taking the whole machine with it. The behavior seems to be the same with and without Smart Update and with no other applications open. Let me know if you need me to send you something to look at it.

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Old 02-06-2008, 06:51 PM
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Running any AntiVirus?
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Old 02-18-2008, 10:35 PM
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Running any AntiVirus?
No antivirus running or Windows partitions. I looked at the log (scary I know!) and see that the pattern below is repeated numerous times before I finally give up:

02:59:02 PM | Info | WARNING: Caught I/O exception(14): Bad address
| 02:59:02 PM | Info | WARNING: Source: /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo, lstat(): 0
| 02:59:02 PM | Info | WARNING: Target: /Volumes/Backup Partition/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo, lstat(): 0
| 02:59:02 PM | Info | Attempting to copy file using copyfile().
| 02:59:25 PM | Info | Successfully copied file.
| 02:59:55 PM | Info | WARNING: Caught I/O exception(14): Bad address
| 02:59:55 PM | Info | WARNING: Source: /usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo, lstat(): 0
| 02:59:55 PM | Info | WARNING: Target: /Volumes/Backup Partition/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo, lstat(): 0
| 02:59:55 PM | Info | Attempting to copy file using copyfile().
| 03:00:17 PM | Info | Successfully copied file.
| 03:00:40 PM | Info | WARNING: Caught I/O exception(14): Bad address
| 03:00:40 PM | Info | WARNING: Source: /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo, lstat(): 0
| 03:00:40 PM | Info | WARNING: Target: /Volumes/Backup Partition/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo, lstat(): 0
| 03:00:40 PM | Info | Attempting to copy file using copyfile().
| 03:01:03 PM | Info | Successfully copied file.
| 03:01:27 PM | Info | WARNING: Caught I/O exception(14): Bad address
| 03:01:27 PM | Info | WARNING: Source: /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo, lstat(): 0
| 03:01:27 PM | Info | WARNING: Target: /Volumes/Backup Partition/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo, lstat(): 0
| 03:01:27 PM | Info | Attempting to copy file using copyfile().
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Old 02-19-2008, 11:32 AM
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The source drive looks like it might be quite damaged, actually, but it could be the destination. What exactly are you copying to?
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Old 02-07-2008, 04:33 AM
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Dave,
I've tried three additional backups since my post earlier and they all end the same way. Starts OK but eventually comes to a crawl taking the whole machine with it. The behavior seems to be the same with and without Smart Update and with no other applications open. Let me know if you need me to send you something to look at it.

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I had the same problem, I have resolved in an "Rebuild Prebindings" on the clone.
You can use the Terminal to do that, but i used "Leopard Cache Cleaner" The only application that I could run from the clone ...
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Old 02-18-2008, 10:36 PM
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I had the same problem, I have resolved in an "Rebuild Prebindings" on the clone.
You can use the Terminal to do that, but i used "Leopard Cache Cleaner" The only application that I could run from the clone ...
What do you mean? I can't even create a clone. I let it run for hours and hours and it never finishes.
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Old 02-06-2008, 02:04 PM
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Similar Problem Here

I tried to run version 2.5 with Smart Update this morning and it finally brought the machine to standstill with several minutes elapsing before mouse clicks were acknowledged. iTunes stopped playing (would actually give a few seconds of music every few minutes) and command-tab to move between windows was ignored ass well. According to Activity Monitor "windowserv_" was the biggest CPU user but it rarely spiked above 70%. After an hour of this and no progress on the copy stats (was stuck at 24.72 GB copied) in SD I stopped the copy and everything came back to life.

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