Comments on: Esoteric Tip of the Day #1: Dead Man’s Check

By: Simon Strandgaard

Simon Strandgaard — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:31:58 +0000

I got the exact same problem. 6 minute intervals. same AppleYukon2 hard reset stuff as yours written to kernel.log. Thank you Alex for this work around.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:11:49 +0000

Thanks Alex,
I replaced the quotes that I had copied from this post with ones that I typed in and voilà!
In the mean time I did find another workaround where I extracted the Yukon driver from 10.5.6 and everybody’s playing nicely so far and thank God because this ‘obscure’ little problem rendered my system unusable for real time auidio capture and synthesis!
Thanks again
Al

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:30:08 +0000

Hi Al,

If you could post the specific content of the AppleScript error, I’ll see if I can help. You should make sure that your quotes are straight-quotes and not smart-quotes (or “curly quotes”), as that might screw up the AppleScript.

By: Al

Al — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:19:25 +0000

Hi Alex and everybody,
I am having this Appleyukon2 kext issue on my MBP 2.33 10.6.3.
I use my system for real time audio and midi as I am a professional guitarist.
For now I removed the kext and I am testing what’s left of my system for stability/ performance.
I need to ask for a little clarification in the AppleScript to ping the router workaround.
When i copy the text,substituting my routers ip I am getting AppleScript errors… I have tried to figure this out but I am an AppleScript newbie.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Al

By: Esoteric

Esoteric — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:53:06 +0000

lol “WTF”-type errors – I think you have just coined my new favourite phrase alex

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:14:52 +0000

Huh, that is really odd; so it only triggers when it’s idle? Well, that’s one way to solve it I suppose.

By: lafber

lafber — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:01:51 +0000

Thanks for your post.

That issue is getting me crazy for weeks.
I’ve tried your fixed but unfortunately it didn’t work.

However when the Mac Mini is communicating the AppleYukon2 deadmanCheck doesn’t trigger. So now that I have a constant in and out flow it didn’t happend

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:31:25 +0000

Thanks, this seems to have solved my problem as well.
I too experienced this exact problem (after installing PHPFileNavigator – but it is hard to imagine that it would have anything to do with this). After the procedure described above, things are back to normal.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:24:31 +0000

Thanks, that solved that particular problem. Now if someone can identify the root cause of Airport connections coming and going I might be happy – time outs when reconnecting piss me off.

And today, my wired/powerline connection is giving me a fuss. It is connected fine UNTIL you try to use it.

But again, thanks, every other link I found on Google danced around this particular issue and focused on other messages in the console log!

By: Carl Johnson

Carl Johnson — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:29:36 +0000

I tried the directions twice, but no success. I am still getting console messages essentially the same as reported above every 15 minutes or so, 24 hours a day. Really annoying since it fills up my log file with useless error messages. Apple has known about this bug for months. Why can’t they fix it? I am running OS X 10.6.2 on an iMac.