I have been struggling with system 8.6 on my 6100 for some time now. I finally decided to check with the 1st-powermacs list for help. I can't run any of my collection of web browsers for more than 15 or 20 minutes without getting the "XYZ has unexpectedly quit. You should save your work..." message. I also get frequent errors of type 1 and some type 2.
I have IE5.1.6, Communicator 4.79, Mozilla 1.0, and iCab 2.9.8. I did the Text Encoding Converter update to 1.5, as the iCab readme recommends. Other than that I am running on a freshly reformatted hard drive and a freshly installed copy of 8.6. IThe system is from an OEM 8.5 disk, and then the downloadable 8.6 update was run. This 6100 has a Sonnet 400MHz G3 and 256 Mb RAM installed. It has always run well on 8.1 or 7.6.1, but has been flaky since I have upgraded to OS 8.6.
Run Disk First Aid. Ensure there are no problems on any of your volumes.
Memory cdev settings?
What version of CarbonLib do you have installed?
If you're touching any web pages that contain Flash, at any time, what version of Flash do you have installed?
Try this:
Install MacsBug. Download it from <http://developer.apple.com/tools/debuggers/MacsBug/> Decompress the archive. Drag MacsBug itself to your System Folder. Ignore the rest of the stuff in the archive. Eliminate as many 3rd party extensions and control panels as you can. Drag 'em to the desktop or use an extensions manager. Trash the following from your system Preferences folder: iCab Cache (within iCab Preferences) Navigation Services Open Transport Preferences Empty the trash. Reboot. Set iCab to its default preferred memory size of 3000K. Use iCab until you crash into MacsBug. Within MacsBug, do a "stdlog" then "ES". If the ES fails, do "RS". If the RS fails, do "RB". Email the stdlog to me. I'll take a look. :)
One thing that might be significant - I have 9.1 istalled on a partition of an external hard drive. When I first installed 9.1 it tried to "take over" the machine and somehow made it difficult to select the 8.1 system folder on the internal hard drive as the startup disk.
I had the same thing happen on my 7300 when I had multiple OSeseses. There is a bug, not fixed until OS 9.2, whereby the Startup Disk control panel fails to fully change the drive:volume boot pair in the PRAM. Very annoying.
Try zapping your parameter RAM. That fixes it temporarily, usually.
HTH, - Dan.
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