Lion System Freezes: Apparent hang in main graphics engine

[SredniV]

Hi all,

I'm having a super annoying problem that started cropping up yesterday morning when I turned my system on first thing in the morning. Basically, I'm seeing the system freeze up, showing me the spinning beach ball/pizza of death . I'm not 100% sure of the triggers for it, but it seems like certain attempts to use the graphics functionality sends the system into a tizzy. Chrome and Safari seem to get it started (especially with flash), as does VMware Fusion. Screen Sharing did, too. It's bad enough that I can't really use any browsers or Fusion. There's a lot of things that do seem to work fine, though (Terminal, Console, System Preferences, Finder). Since Terminal works, I suppose I can take up mudding and move into my parents' basement...

In the kernel logs, I see errors like the following at 5 second intervals. I can't see anything that appears relevant in the system log or other log files.

This system has been running fine for about 2 months now with 10.7.2 installed the whole time. Like I said, I turned it on in the morning yesterday and it just started happening when I fired up Chrome. The only change I've made recently was to install the latest update to iTunes.

Since I was using MultiBeast 4.0.2 previously, I tried 4.2 yesterday and that doesn't seem to have helped at all.

Some specifics about the system:

Radeon 6850 graphics
Core i7 2600 CPU
16GB ram
100GB OCZ Vertex II SSD
Lion 10.7.2 installed with MultiBeast 4.2
I don't use sleep at all (it's disabled, and I shut the system down at night)

I found some similar topics on the forum here, but those all seem to be related to Intel HD3000 or sleep, and those are either unsolved or the solutions don't work for me.

Any thoughts or suggestions anyone could provide would be appreciated.

Thanks!
S

Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: stampWait: Overflowed checking for stamp 0x10b on Main ring: called from
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: timestamp = 0x0108
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: **** Debug info for apparent hang in Main graphics engine ****
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: ring head = 0x00002768, wrap count = 0x 0
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: ring tail = 0x00003c28 ring control = 0x00003001 enabled, auto report disabled, not waiting, semaphore not waiting, length = 0x004 4KB pages
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: timestamps = 0x0108
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: Semaphore register values:
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: VRSYNC: (0x12044) = 0x108
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: BRSYNC: (0x22040) = 0x0
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: RVSYNC: (0x 2040) = 0x0
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: BVSYNC: (0x22044) = 0x0
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: RBSYNC: (0x 2044) = 0x0
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: VBSYNC: (0x12040) = 0x0
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: kIPEHR: 0x2000000
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: kINSTDONE: 0xff88fffb
Dec 15 06:33:47 radium kernel[0]: kINSTDONE_1: 0x9bf8ffff
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: stampWait: Overflowed checking for stamp 0x1 on Blit ring: called from wait for blt buffer (2D blt)
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: timestamp = 0x0000
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: **** Debug info for apparent hang in Blit graphics engine ****
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: ring head = 0x00000010, wrap count = 0x 0
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: ring tail = 0x00000bc0 ring control = 0x00003401 enabled, auto report disabled, not waiting, semaphore is waiting, length = 0x004 4KB pages
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: timestamps = 0x0000
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: Semaphore register values:
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: VRSYNC: (0x12044) = 0x108
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: BRSYNC: (0x22040) = 0x0
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: RVSYNC: (0x 2040) = 0x0
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: BVSYNC: (0x22044) = 0x0
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: RBSYNC: (0x 2044) = 0x0
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: VBSYNC: (0x12040) = 0x0
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: trying to clear semaphore wait on Blit ring
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: After attempt to clear semaphore wait = 0x00003001 no longer waiting
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: kIPEHR: 0x2000000
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: kINSTDONE: 0xff88fffb
Dec 15 06:33:48 radium kernel[0]: kINSTDONE_1: 0x1bf8ffff

and

Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: stampWait: Overflowed checking for stamp 0x2e6 on Main ring: called from
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: timestamp = 0x0108
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: **** Debug info for apparent hang in Main graphics engine ****
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: ring head = 0x00002768, wrap count = 0x 0
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: ring tail = 0x000036b0 ring control = 0x00003001 enabled, auto report disabled, not waiting, semaphore not waiting, length = 0x004 4KB pages
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: timestamps = 0x0108
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: Semaphore register values:
Dec 15? 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: VRSYNC: (0x12044) = 0x108
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: BRSYNC: (0x22040) = 0x0
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: RVSYNC: (0x 2040) = 0x0
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: BVSYNC: (0x22044) = 0x0
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: RBSYNC: (0x 2044) = 0x1
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: VBSYNC: (0x12040) = 0x0
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: kIPEHR: 0x2000000
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: kINSTDONE: 0xff88fffb
Dec 15 07:08:40 radium kernel[0]: kINSTDONE_1: 0x9bf8ffff
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: stampWait: Overflowed checking for stamp 0x2e6 on Main ring: called from
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: timestamp = 0x0108
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: **** Debug info for apparent hang in Main graphics engine ****
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: ring head = 0x00002768, wrap count = 0x 0
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: ring tail = 0x00003700 ring control = 0x00003001 enabled, auto report disabled, not waiting, semaphore not waiting, length = 0x004 4KB pages
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: timestamps = 0x0108
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: Semaphore register values:
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: VRSYNC: (0x12044) = 0x108
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: BRSYNC: (0x22040) = 0x0
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: RVSYNC: (0x 2040) = 0x0
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: BVSYNC: (0x22044) = 0x0
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: RBSYNC: (0x 2044) = 0x1
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: VBSYNC: (0x12040) = 0x0
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: kIPEHR: 0x2000000
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: kINSTDONE: 0xff88fffb
Dec 15 07:08:45 radium kernel[0]: kINSTDONE_1: 0x9bf8ffff

 

[OsHex]

Hi SredniV

Don't know if this will help you, but i had similar problems when using Firefox/Safari. My solution (so far so good), delete firefox. Update Safari.

If you havent already of cource

/O

 

[SredniV]

I can try removing Chrome, but I'm not very hopeful. The problem occurs with Safari as well, and many other applications. I can't remove everything...

I'll have to give it a go when I get home later tonight.

S

 

[OsHex]

Did you check if you could update safari? seriously, firefox and (old) safari really does not do well.

Check this out, when i tried changing the download folder in firefox, finder and everything froze on me. This was a problem in safari also. Also my DVD drive gave me problems when i had a dvd in it.

(for everyone googlin') If you want a guide for working Lion 10.7.2 _ 560 Ti _ i3/i5/i7, gigabyte 55/57m mobo, no usb drive, direct partion install. PM me.

 

[SredniV]

I'm certain that everything is up to date. Software update doesn't show any updates for Safari (or anything else).

Before getting to try to uninstall Chrome tonight, I noticed that nothing I was doing was able to tickle the problem. I was able to successfully do everything. Once I re-enabled flash in Chrome and hit YouTube, things went to pot. When I had hit YouTube with flash disabled, I didn't get any problems.

So, it looks like flash might be the culprit here, or is at least hitting something in the graphics engine that the system doesn't like. I'll try re-installing chrome to see if that helps, but wanted to provide that update.

OsHex, when you encountered similar problems, did you see kernel logs about apparent hangs in the graphics engine?

-S

 

[SredniV]

Here's another update: I reinstalled Chrome (deleting everything I could find in ~/Library related to Chrome, too) and still had the problem when I hit a website that required flash.

Using Safari, flash works fine, so it does appear to be specific to the flash plugin/addon in Chrome that borks things up. But, once it gets started, the problem persists everywhere (Safari, Fusion, etc).

It looks like the version of Flash that's part of Chrome has been in place for some time. Certainly before the 13th when I started seeing this problem.

So, in summary: I've stopped using Chrome as there seems to be a problem with the Flash player it bundles. Safari's seems fine. I'll possibly investigate Firefox if I get annoyed by Safari.

 

[Edkroket]

My system is freezing randomly as well. I'm wondering if you still have it and or have a solution?

Ed

 

[SredniV]

Hi Ed,

Eliminating Chrome solved the problem for me. I'll probably re-investigate whether a future release/update of Chrome helps things, but for now, I'm getting by with Safari.

-S

 

[Edkroket]

I don't use Chrome nor Safari only Firefox since I have all my bookmark synchronized on different machines.
Yseterday I found a small app and use it in the background and so far I haven't got any freeze.
Here the app http://www.tonymacx86.com/download/file.php?id=19561
and here the topic http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=20367&start=280
I know flash in combination with Forefox is causing the freeze since it only occurs when I'm in Firefox.

Ed

 

[kryz]

I have the same problem but that CUDA app doesn't work for me.
It seems to crash upon opening according to the console. Doesn't make a difference where I put the app. I'll restart and see if I can get it to work then.