Panic (system crashes) - Kernel trap - MacBook Pro

Hi everyone.

Didn't know what to do anymore... thought this might be the right place to look for answers.
To get to the point...

I randomly get system crashes - the reason is always a kernel trap.. like just recently, 20 mins ago

Description: Panic (system crashes)
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2a6ac2): Kernel trap at 0x00279f9d, type 14=page fault
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: firefox-bin

The thing is it doesn't matter what i do...they always seem to come again...

Usually when using Adobe Lightroom when either exporting a lot of pictures (90 +) or quickly scrolling thru them and sorting them.
Sometimes when running time machine... just when it's like at 90% it crashed again. But the next time it works... Its always a Kernel trap...

I'm running snow leopard since today, thought i might solve the problem but now i had the first again... (posted above) this time firefox was involved.. and also the only application running

I had the same crashes with Leopard.
Got the harddrive replaced somewhen before summer, everything was running smooth for a month or two without any problems... then it started again out of nothing. I reinstalled everything (at that time still Leopard)
and it worked again for about 1 month... now it started again. Someone at my mac shop said that those kernel traps could be a software problem. I reinstalled everything quite often, had the leopard install dvd checked, also ran several hardware tests... nothing was found.

It seemed that running a disk utility permission check and repair made the problem go away at least for a while because at least after those crashes the permissions seemed to have gotten crazy messed up.. at least with leopard.

I'm on a MacBook Pro 1,1
2gb ram
320gb hd
Intel Core Duo 2.16 GHz

In the now a lil over 3 years i have this MBP I had the motherboard or gfx chip as well as superdrive replaced twice already and the hd once.
Really don't know anymore what to do.
I think the extended warranty is gone now as well and this MBP is my one and only extensively needed workspace, connection to home, the world and so on... i love it but especially over the last 1 1/2 years it has given me troubles over troubles... no matter what they replace or said they had fixed...


well.. i hope anybody here has some ideas that can help
kind regards!
m.

just happened again...

thought i post the error reports...

Wed Oct 7 00:10:19 2009
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2a6ac2): Kernel trap at 0x00279f9d, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x0004e629, CR3: 0x00101000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x00000001, EBX: 0x00000070, ECX: 0x093a0000, EDX: 0x0004e625
CR2: 0x0004e629, EBP: 0x29103c88, ESI: 0x0344e198, EDI: 0x00000000
EFL: 0x00010297, EIP: 0x00279f9d, CS: 0x00000004, DS: 0x2910000c
Error code: 0x00000002

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x29103ac8 : 0x21acfa (0x5ce650 0x29103afc 0x223156 0x0)
0x29103b18 : 0x2a6ac2 (0x590a50 0x279f9d 0xe 0x590c1a)
0x29103bf8 : 0x29c968 (0x29103c18 0x0 0x29103c78 0x29abcb)
0x29103c10 : 0x279f9d (0xe 0x48 0xc 0xc)
0x29103c88 : 0x26c04e (0x344e198 0x1 0x7d02b067 0x0)
0x29103cd8 : 0x26c84a (0xa7eaf9c 0x0 0x29103d68 0x23326d)
0x29103d08 : 0x26cac8 (0x0 0x48fb3ec 0x0 0x1c48780)
0x29103d28 : 0x26d6f8 (0xa7eafa4 0x0 0x354f4000 0x0)
0x29103d68 : 0x2604ad (0xa7eaf9c 0x4f48c8c 0x0 0x354f4000)
0x29103e98 : 0x2606a4 (0x35d54000 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x29103ed8 : 0x281834 (0x510970c 0x34d54000 0x0 0x35d54000)
0x29103f38 : 0x47ab7f (0x510970c 0x34d54000 0x0 0x1000000)
0x29103f78 : 0x4ed4f4 (0x579a7e0 0x5e95930 0x5e95974 0x0)
0x29103fc8 : 0x29ceb8 (0x5462a3c 0x0 0x8 0x5462a3c)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbfffdf98

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: firefox-bin

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this time caused by Mail, running in the background..

Wed Oct 7 01:04:27 2009
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2a6ac2): Kernel trap at 0x0027a435, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000004, CR3: 0x00101000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x02458c34, EBX: 0x00000026, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x00849eb0
CR2: 0x00000004, EBP: 0x2fbab5f8, ESI: 0x00000099, EDI: 0x03c4a708
EFL: 0x00010202, EIP: 0x0027a435, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x2fba000c
Error code: 0x00000002

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2fbab428 : 0x21acfa (0x5ce650 0x2fbab45c 0x223156 0x0)
0x2fbab478 : 0x2a6ac2 (0x590a50 0x27a435 0xe 0x590c1a)
0x2fbab558 : 0x29c968 (0x2fbab578 0x0 0x2fba000c 0x556eae0)
0x2fbab570 : 0x27a435 (0xe 0x290048 0xc 0xc)
0x2fbab5f8 : 0x27b44a (0x275d8f8 0x0 0x201f030 0x0)
0x2fbab638 : 0x2579c2 (0xb3df030 0x32c000 0x0 0x3)
0x2fbab778 : 0x2a681f (0x557b3d8 0x194b5000 0x0 0x3)
0x2fbab858 : 0x29c968 (0x2fbab86c 0x2fbab938 0x29d644 0xe)
0x2fbab864 : 0x29d644 (0xe 0x2fba0048 0x4ca000c 0x2fba0070)
0x2fbab938 : 0x29a987 (0x0 0x1000 0x0 0x0)
0x2fbab9e8 : 0x48689e (0x7bb71000 0x0 0x194b5000 0x0)
0x2fbaba68 : 0x24ff5f (0x7bb71000 0x0 0x1000 0x2fbabec4)
0x2fbabb38 : 0x2cbd69 (0xb32fdc0 0x0 0x0 0x2fbabec4)
0x2fbabb98 : 0x2d065c (0x0 0x0 0x7ae7000 0x0)
0x2fbabd28 : 0x2d144e (0xb92365c 0x2fbabec4 0x518dae 0x0)
0x2fbabd58 : 0x4254ed (0xb92365c 0x2fbabec4 0x518dae 0x0)
0x2fbabdd8 : 0x2f89aa (0x2fbabdfc 0x3 0x2fbabe28 0x57cc1d)
0x2fbabe28 : 0x2eda08 (0xb92365c 0x2fbabec4 0x800 0x2fbabf54)
0x2fbabe78 : 0x495244 (0x557ef40 0x2fbabec4 0x0 0x2fbabf54)
0x2fbabf18 : 0x4959f5 (0x2fbabf54 0x557ef40 0x19189000 0x0)
Backtrace continues...

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Mail

Is the RAM stock? Have you added any new RAM since these Kernel Panics started?

No, ram is the same that came with the mac...
But i've run some tools like memtest and and techtool and they said everything is ok...

MBP Snow Leopard Kernel Panic

I have been having the same types of issues. I have one of the newer macbook pros (although not the newest). I found the kernel panic log and here is what it says... Any ideas what might be causing this?

Tue Nov 17 00:48:12 2009
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x2345e7): "zalloc: \"kalloc.8192\" (241 elements) retry fail 3, kfree_nop_count: 0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1486.2.11/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:981
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x80bc3b98 : 0x21b2bd (0x5cf868 0x80bc3bcc 0x223719 0x0)
0x80bc3be8 : 0x2345e7 (0x5886dc 0x587125 0xf1 0x3)
0x80bc3c88 : 0x2203d8 (0x35332d8 0x1 0x849068 0x234c33)
0x80bc3cc8 : 0x220418 (0x102c 0x1 0x653007 0x1)
0x80bc3ce8 : 0x260d41 (0x102c 0x9e09844 0xf1000001 0x0)
0x80bc3dc8 : 0x20f7ed (0x9a3febc 0xcfd000 0x0 0xff8)
0x80bc3e28 : 0x2100ef (0x24f4ee7c 0x24f4ee80 0x0 0x80bc3e78)
0x80bc3e98 : 0x216a29 (0x24f4ee00 0x7f46368 0x9a3febc 0x0)
0x80bc3f18 : 0x2924f1 (0x80bc3f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x80bc3fc8 : 0x29dfd8 (0x87bc640 0x0 0x10 0x87bc640)

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mdworker32

Mac OS version:
10C540

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov 3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro5,1 (Mac-F42D86C8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 173781397892099
vm objects:9584628
kernel map entries:5218268
pv_list:2804368
kalloc.16:162451456
kalloc.32:751857664
kalloc.64:5320704
kalloc.128:4476928
kalloc.256:1343488
kalloc.1024:1478656
kalloc.4096:1286144
kalloc.8192:1974272
vm pages:41174672
ipc ports:1091440
vnodes:9247040
namecache:3255840
HFS node:13736140
HFS fork:5661824
decmpfs_cnode:1326168
buf.8192:16097280
ubc_info zone:1954320
Kernel Stacks:3686400
PageTables:26210304
Kalloc.Large:6012688
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