I read several reports of instances when a window appears in MacOS X Jaguar, asking the user, with a message in several languages, to restart the computer. I post them here, because some of them mentioned Fink also.
Nobody knows why this happens. Any ideas?
Or anybody experienced the same?
Thanks,
Pedro
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<<Today I come home from class and I see the strangest dialogue box. It looked like the dialogue box when you install the computer, everything was greyed out and I had this nice window, in six languages, that basically told me "you need to restart your computer, press and hold the power button, yadda yadda".
Now, the only thing I was doing differently today is that since yesterday I was updating all my fink packages. I did a fink selfupdate-cvs and fink update-all. I'm running jaguar and already followed the instructions for updating to jaguar long ago.
I checked my logs and I don't see anything, but I'm not exactly sure what to look for. Anyway, when I rebooted the first app that launched (mail) quit unexpectedly; also none of my other partitions/drives mounted. So I restarted and ran DiskWarrior.
After that I restarted again, fsckd the drive and continued to boot. So far I haven't had any other problems and it seems to be back to normal.
What could of caused this?>>
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<<One new thing I've noticed since I installed Jag. Now OSX has crashed for the first time on my machine! I had left it running with fink update "xfree86-base" over the night and when I came back the next morning it showed a white box with the message that I needed to shut off the computer. The message was in English, German, French and Japanese. This means that Jaguar had been installed for at most 6 hours before it crashed, and crashed hard. Not a good sign!>>
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<<i've seen those a few times, myself. is this the new kernel panic?! me no likey! give me the "scary" screen dump.
do you have core file(s)? in /cores/
i don't know what this new white window/four language/dimmed background request to hit the pooch button is, but i don't like it because it guards what has really happened with a smirk and a handwave dismissal. anybody know officially?>>
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