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    Sound assertion error in console after 10.5.6?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Mercellus, Jan 1, 2009.

  1. Mercellus

    Mercellus Notebook Geek

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    Hi everyone,

    I was hunting around inside of my Console logs today for something and ran across something peculiar, I've confirmed with a few other people that it is showing up on their computers as well and it seems to be only on Mac OS X 10.5.6.

    The specific error is:

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    kernel Sound assertion "0 == mMikeyPeripheralInterruptSource" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-162.1.37/AppleMikeyDriver/AppleMikeyACPI.cpp" at line 289 goto Exit
    Out of curiousity, is anyone else seeing this in their Console logs after updating?
     
    Mercellus, Jan 1, 2009
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  2. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Nope, no problem here. Just checked and it's clear.
     
    Colton, Jan 1, 2009
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  3. Mercellus

    Mercellus Notebook Geek

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    This error message doesn't seem to cause anything to stop working, it seems more like an informative error than anything. Unfortunately, my knowledge on such errors is limited, I'm hoping someone can elaborate on what this error message might mean and why it is occurring.
     
    Mercellus, Jan 1, 2009
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  4. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    I'm not really familiar with system errors of what you are dealing with, hopefully someone else can put help ya out.
     
    Colton, Jan 1, 2009
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  5. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    looks like a sound driver issue. the assertion error means that something in the sound driver is supposed to be set a certain way and it isn't. the assertion in the code allows it to catch itself and handle the problem accordingly. there's probably some code already in place to "handle" the problem so your system at least doesn't crash.

    but that's a pretty general answer, i don't know what it is specifically.
     
    masterchef341, Jan 2, 2009
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