Beachballs and short freezes after enabling TRIM and restoring from Time Machine (Mac OS X)

Question

I decided to enable TRIM for my SSD based on the recommendations from this SU answer.

Something went wrong and I couldn't boot and ending up having to restore from Time Machine.

Edit:

I manually replaced the binary file

IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage

with one that was edited and fixed the permissions. I missed the part about your first boot might take a long time (the machines normal boot time is 8 sec) I only gave it a couple of minutes and tried to reboot a few times.

I tried to manually fix it by restoring the backup I made of the binary via Terminal but still wouldn't boot.

I also successfully enabled TRIM after restoring and reset PRAM, verified disk and repaired permissions.

The second time I just used the Trim Support Enabler

Now I'm getting beachballs and short freezes. It usually happens in Chrome but also TextMate. I had none of these problems before.

How can I determine if the problem stems from enabling TRIM or from the Time Machine restore?

Here is the error log from when it just happened a few minutes ago.

    <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSShapeWindow
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x3c03c].com.apple.mail[409]: Sat May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro.local Mail[409] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSShapeWindow
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x7a07a].com.datacolor.spyder3utility[708]: Sat May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro.local Spyder3Utility[708] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSShapeWindow
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro Google Chrome Helper[416]: unknown error code: invalid context
May 21 19:24:43: --- last message repeated 12 times ---
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x23023].com.google.Chrome[290]: Sat May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro.local Google Chrome Helper[416] <Error>: unknown error code: invalid context
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro Google Chrome Helper[416]: unknown error code: invalid context
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x23023].com.google.Chrome[290]: Sat May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro.local Google Chrome Helper[416] <Error>: unknown error code: invalid context
May 21 19:24:43: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro Google Chrome Helper[416]: unknown error code: invalid context
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x23023].com.google.Chrome[290]: Sat May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro.local Google Chrome Helper[416] <Error>: unknown error code: invalid context
May 21 19:24:43: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro Google Chrome Helper[416]: unknown error code: invalid context
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x23023].com.google.Chrome[290]: Sat May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro.local Google Chrome Helper[416] <Error>: unknown error code: invalid context
May 21 19:24:43: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro Google Chrome Helper[416]: unknown error code: invalid context
May 21 19:24:43: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0x23023].com.google.Chrome[290]: Sat May 21 19:24:43 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro.local Google Chrome Helper[416] <Error>: unknown error code: invalid context

The Google Chrome 416 error is repeated about 30 times after what I posted.

Here is the beginning of the CrashReport

Process:         Console [658]
Path:            /Applications/Utilities/Console.app/Contents/MacOS/Console
Identifier:      com.apple.Console
Version:         10.6.3 (224)
Build Info:      ConsoleX-2240000~2
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [198]

Date/Time:       2011-05-21 17:29:49.043 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J4138)
Report Version:  6

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000002000000
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Application Specific Information:
objc_msgSend() selector name: outlineView:objectValueForTableColumn:byItem:

This is the Kernal log from the freeze:

May 21 19:24:53 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: USBF:    19130. 19   AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8013bb0000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 0, EP: 0)
May 21 19:24:53 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: USBF:    19130. 51   [0xffffff8017148c00] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in.  It will keep retrying.  (Port 2 of Hub at 0xfd120000)
May 21 19:25:00 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: USBF:    19137. 20   AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8013bb0000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 0, EP: 0)
May 21 19:25:06 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: USBF:    19143. 21   AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8013bb0000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 0, EP: 0)
May 21 19:25:12 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: USBF:    19149. 22   AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8013bb0000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 0, EP: 0)
May 21 19:25:18 Chris-Olbeksons-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: USBF:    19155. 23   AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff8013bb0000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 0, EP: 0)

Answer 1

The issue that was causing the problems was enabling TRIM. I restored the kernal extension from my backup and all the problems immediately went away.

To make sure it wasn't a fluke I followed all the steps and re enabled TRIM and the problems came back.

Conclusion: Don't hack the kernal to enable TRIM for a drive that doesn't really need it.

Answer 2

The first thing you should do is verify the disk using Disk Utility and repair the disk if necessary.