Applies to
You are either running an
- a beautiful original Apple Mac or a
- Hackintosh (with hidden EFI partition)
The following solution has been reported to work on both systems. Chances are good that the solution might be working for you aswell.
Issues
You have been using the auto update feature in Mac OS X to update to 10.5.7. Instead of restarting your system crashs during reboot.
Solutions
You made a backup of your system before, right? Then Restore your backup of 10.5.6, if you didn’t backup: skip this step and give the rest a try anyway.
| Native Apple Mac | Hackintosh |
| 00. (restore backup of 10.5.6) | 00. (restore backup of 10.5.6) |
| 01. shutdown your Mac | 01. shutdown your Hackintosh |
| 02. turn it on again and immediately | 02. turn it on again and in Darwin boot menu |
| 03. keep holding the SHIFT KEY | 03. in Darwin Boot Menu apply these parameters: -x -f |
| 04. you Mac will boot into SAFE MODE | 04. your Hackintosh will boot into SAFE MODE and recreate the MKext |
| 05. Login to Leopard | 05. Login to Leopard |
| 06. Download Combo Update 10.5.7 (Link) | 06. Download Combo Update 10.5.7 (Link) |
| 07. Ignore the Auto Update feature | 07. Ignore the Auto Update feature |
| 08. Install downloaded Combo Update 10.5.7 | 08. Install downloaded Combo Update 10.5.7 |
In case there is still something fishy. You may try to repair permissions after updating to 10.5.7, by following these additional steps:
| 09. Boot with your Install DVD | 09. Boot with Boot 132 CD and boot your Retail Install DVD |
| 10. Start Disk Utility | 10. Start Disk Utility |
| 11. Repair Permissions | 11. Repair Permissions |
| 12. Keep Praying | 12. Keep Praying |
| 13. reboot | 13. reboot |
I hope it helps. If you got more suggestions: don’t hesitate to share them in the comments section. Thanks for stopping by our site…
Thanks. I rolled back to 10.5.6 using a backup. and have just applied he 10.5.7 update. my MBP rebooted once and runs like a charme now.
Very annoying. Sometime I wonder if Apple is interested in quality or in fastest profit? I feel this update is almost beta. Too many ppl report problems… Anyway thanks again
when have LegacyHDA.kext in EFI partition: update will crash kernel panic.
workaround:
if done the autoupdate do not reboot!!! give -x on darwin prompt to safe mode. will reboot automatic and then again give -x on darwin. boot now take very long. when leopard gui started: reinstall old AppleHDA.kext 10.5.6 (have maked backup before?!) and reboot.
all be fine.
A good thing is to install update and reboot with -v as verbose mode. You will see exactly what is responsible for the KERNEL PANIC.
In my case I was using EPOS ;-) with SMBIOSResolver.kext on my EFI partition. The problem is when having the string “MacPro” in the SMBIOS fields it is likely to crash. In my case AppleTyMCEDriver.kext made the system go down on its knees.
But Netkas just recommends either to enter a different string in SMBIOSResolver.kext like “iP0rn” or just remove “AppleTyMCEDriver.kext” completely.
I decided to go for a full remove from the single user mode (bootflag -s in Darwin) and until now everything went well.
Mac OS is a b*tch that I start to love. Anybody here to tell me what this kext is requred for?
10.5.7 crashing kernel panic again and agian. When burning Roxio Toast DVD9 dual layer.
Crashing after 13 mins? Anybody got hints what can do?
Dzien dobry Tomasz,
You may pinpoint system issues with the
Console.app. As it contains a system log with all information about crashes and notifications. Even with a system freeze you can see what has been tried in the end before the freeze. Kernel panics are easier to understand as the system gives more details information about them.You find Console.app under Applications/Utilities.
Prolly you got issues with the
AppleHDA.kext(?) like two million other people (and me ;-) Check the log files carefully for errors likeSound assertion "0 != result" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-162.1.37/AppleHDA/AppleHDADriver.cpp" at line 2742 goto handlerSound assertion "0 == fInterruptSource" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-157.1.24/AppleHDAController/AppleHDAController.cpp" at line 215 goto Exit1Sound assertion "0 != result" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-162.1.37/AppleHDA/AppleHDAWidget.cpp" at line 1358 goto handlerSound assertion "1" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-162.1.37/AppleHDA/AppleHDAWidget.cpp" at line 1658 goto handlerIf this is the case check these updated legacy kexts by
tmongkol(decent work dude!) (link1, link2). By doing that you may go back to the AppleHDA.kext from 10.5.6. This is not 100% vanilla, right. But will save you lots of time. Otherwise (means if you have enough spare time) check these articles (link1, link2).Good luck to Warsaw :-)