TroubleShooting a System Kernel Panic

On Tuesday, March 06, 2013, I elected to open my Late 2008 Aluminum Unibody MacBook 5,1 running OS X 10.8.2. It has a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1067MHz DDR3 SODIMM RAM, and a 500GB SATA Hard Drive (Not SSD).

For the second time in this seemingly OLD MAC's life it decided to crash on me moments after being started up from a sleep state. "What the H happened?" The system stated the following after reboot via the report details:

Wed Mar 6 17:48:06 2013
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff8013cb7bd5): Kernel trap at 0xffffff8013f677b3, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000154, CR3: 0x0000000077efe000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0xffffff8026cc6530, RCX: 0xffffff808675d0b8, RDX: 0xffffff8027075070
RSP: 0xffffff808072bd90, RBP: 0xffffff808072be50, RSI: 0x000000000000001f, RDI: 0xffffff801f3f6aa0
R8: 0x000000000000003c, R9: 0x00000000000003ff, R10: 0xffffffffffffffff, R11: 0x00000000ffffffff
R12: 0x0000000000000000, R13: 0x0000000000000004, R14: 0xffffff8027075020, R15: 0x0000000000080000
RFL: 0x0000000000010246, RIP: 0xffffff8013f677b3, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000154, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x1

Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff808072ba30 : 0xffffff8013c1d626
0xffffff808072baa0 : 0xffffff8013cb7bd5
0xffffff808072bc70 : 0xffffff8013cce4ed
0xffffff808072bc90 : 0xffffff8013f677b3
0xffffff808072be50 : 0xffffff8013f56fe2
0xffffff808072bec0 : 0xffffff8013c39cc9
0xffffff808072bef0 : 0xffffff8013c3c7c8
0xffffff808072bf20 : 0xffffff8013c3c63e
0xffffff808072bf50 : 0xffffff8013c1b70d
0xffffff808072bf90 : 0xffffff8013cb8163
0xffffff808072bfb0 : 0xffffff8013cce4bc

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Unknown

Mac OS version:
12C60

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 69A5853F-375A-3EF4-9247-478FD0247333
Kernel slide: 0x0000000013a00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8013c00000
System model name: MacBook5,1 (Mac-F42D89C8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 165461168175764
last loaded kext at 165228032582295: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDCECMData 4.1.22 (addr 0xffffff7f960c9000, size 24576)
last unloaded kext at 165288218935968: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDCECMData 4.1.22 (addr 0xffffff7f960c9000, size 16384)
loaded kexts:
com.quark.driver.Tether64 1.1.0d1
com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver 1.0.0
com.orderedbytes.driver.ControllerMateFamily 4.6.0
com.orderedbytes.driver.CMUSBDevices 4.6.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDCACMData 4.1.22
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC 4.1.22
com.apple.nke.pptp 1.8
com.apple.nke.l2tp 1.8
com.apple.filesystems.udf 2.3
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.0.9f33
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60
com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.12.69
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 122
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.3.1f2
com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.0.9f33
com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU 2.0.2d0
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl 3.2.11
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 2.3.1f2
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.10
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.2.3
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.33
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.6.0
com.apple.GeForce 8.0.0
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.2d6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons 235.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 235.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 320.15
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.BootCache 34
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.5.1
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.2.2
com.apple.nvenet 2.0.19
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331 602.15.22
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 5.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.4.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 5.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBOHCI 5.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.6.1
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 161.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.9
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 196.0.0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 4.0.39
com.apple.security.quarantine 2
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 196.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDCACMControl 4.1.22
com.apple.nke.ppp 1.8
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.6
com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.3.1f2
com.apple.iokit.AppleBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.0.9f33
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.3.1f2
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.3.1f2
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.9fc10
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 86.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.0.9f33
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.2.11
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.0.4
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.10d0
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.10d0
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 5.2.0d16
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 8.0.0
com.apple.NVDAResman 8.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.5
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.3.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.4d2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch 235.7
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 5.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 5.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 5.2.5
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI 2.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 500.15
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 5.2.5
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 5.4.0
com.apple.driver.NVSMU 2.2.9
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.6.1
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.8.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.security.sandbox 220
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 344
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 28.21
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.7.2
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4
com.apple.kec.corecrypto 1.0

I am very computer literate, However I cannot make sense of this except to gather that the CPU had a problem that it could not cope with.

Anyone's feedback on this would be appreciated greatly, Thanks in advance

-Adam N.

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From the log, all that is clear is that the CPU had a Kernel trap associated with a page fault. Since you were coming out of sleep, my guess is that some saved information was corrupted and as such was not loaded or loaded improperly.

Since we don't have a current thread name to go with, it's hard to pinpoint the culprit to anything, so m y guess is that the crash happened while still within the Kernel as opposed to some userspace application..

If this is an infrequent crash, then you might just have to move on from it without learning a lot about how to avoid it in the future..