Random freezes (Mavericks)

[dalilama]

Update: approaching 2 days of uptime, twice as much as I'd usually get so something must have helped, or maybe even fixed the problem. Will be able to tell more tomorrow.

Update 2: well into day 3. Looking good.

Update 3: 60 hours uptime - calling it stable/freeze problem fixed.

I also forgot to mention that in these 3 days I haven't been running ut*****t which I usually always have during these freezes, just in case.

In the next days I will undo some changes I've made and see where the system hangs again to uncover this nasty ****ing issue;

for now:
- plugging back my wireless USB mouse
- turning on ut*****t
- I will NOT install back the VoodooHDA kext yet because that would require a reboot, and I don't want that just yet. Instead, to have sound, I'll use an USB interface I own.

Glad to hear you're narrowing this down. Make sure you only undo changes one at at time and you'll isolate the ****er that is giving you fits. By the way, ut*****t is a CPU hog, and that means heat, so if it turns out to be that revisit the heat mitigation strategy.

Good Luck!

 

[eric90066]

I'm not sure how you still haven't grabbed that mouse and threw it in a damn wall.

I believe me, I've been tempted.

I'm going to start testing soon, as I am finishing an editing project, but the two things I've noticed is swapping out my old bluetooth dongle (AZIO) for a new one (iogear GBU421).

Also I started using a wired instead of a bluetooth mouse. I was convinced it was the Motorola mouse I was using, but when I paired Mavericks with the Microsoft bluetooth 5000 mouse, freezes began again. If it does turn out to be the mice I will try to get an apple mighty mouse and see if there are any improvements.

 

[killjoy]

Glad to hear you're narrowing this down. Make sure you only undo changes one at at time and you'll isolate the ****er that is giving you fits. By the way, ut*****t is a CPU hog, and that means heat, so if it turns out to be that revisit the heat mitigation strategy.

Good Luck!

Don't worry, I've done just 2 changes, the most "critical" ones, and if everything's fine after this I'm basically in the clear, that's why I'm a little nervous. Because if it freezes at this stage it either means I'd have to get a new mouse OR that the network is being stressed too much (for Atheros!!!) - I'm on a high speed university connection after all - in which case I'm screwed anyway seeing there's no replacement for that kext. Or even worse, if it's really overheating from ut*****t like you said, that makes me think the hackintosh is a piece of disappointing crap anyway, because I hardly doubt the most popular t*****t client would cause something like this on real macs.

I just hope to god it's not network caused, because I honestly don't know what else to do than replace the whole motherboard.

 

[killjoy]

Froze again about 14 hours after I've plugged in my wireless USB mouse and ran ut*****t.

So there you have it, narrowed it down pretty quickly.
It's now down to 3 possibilities:
- it's the USB mouse (hardly doubt it since I was afk when the system froze)
- it's ut*****t
- it's heavy load on the network driver

But I saw just now another thread being made about ut*****t causing system freeze so I'm placing my bets on that.

Next action:
- delete ut*****t, get another t*****t client (transmission) and see if the freeze happens again.
- installing back VoodooHDA kext seeing it apparently wasn't the cause of this.

Will report back.

EDIT:

Yeah not sure what's the meaning of this but the system froze again about 1 hour after the reboot already. So, wasn't ut*****t. At this stage I hope it's the mouse because if it's a network issue I have no idea how I'm gonna tackle this.

It's strange though, it happened 1 minute after I logged into WoW. Such a mind**** because I had WoW running 24hours a day in those 3 days of uptime.

It would also be funny if I found out that the 3day uptime was just a fluke and I'm back to square one.

Gonna unplug internet and see where I land. This time, for a change, I really hope it freezes.

 

[risc-pc]

I'va similar problem and my suspect are in network because It happens when I use transmission. Now I try to take off bluetooth usb dongle.

Update it happens about an hour after I start transmission.

 

[killjoy]

I'va similar problem and my suspect are in network because It happens when I use transmission. Now I try to take off bluetooth usb dongle.

Update it happens about an hour after I start transmission.

Yep, confirming this. My system has been stable since I stopped all t*****t downloads.

***The freezes are definitely triggered by network load.

Gonna make a new thread about this and see if we can figure anything out.

 

[bluebalance]

Quick question, did you guys ever experience freeze after booting up on the login page?

 

[killjoy]

Quick question, did you guys ever experience freeze after booting up on the login page?

Yes but it had nothing to do with this. It happened when I first installed Mountain Lion due to wrong/missing kexts. I think the problem back then was that every time I plugged in a USB drive it froze, so if I left it in during a reboot, it naturally froze at the start up screen because of it. Don't install the USB 3.0 - Universal kext but have it enabled in BIOS. I think that's what worked for me.

 

[risc-pc]

Here there is a topic for t*****t download problem :
http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/121703-ut*****t-causes-freeze-mavericks-10-9-1-a.html

 

[obsessen]

I have the same problem. I also think that the problem shows itself when I am downloading t*****t files. I tried all the t*****t clients (ut*****t, Bitt*****t, Vuze, Transmission) but it still freezes randomly.

Has anyone found a solution?