Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On pre-10.2 systems, it was entertaining, the word Kernel panic and a screen full of Unix crash info appeared on the screen, on top of Aqua. and it sat there until you restarted.
On post 10.2 systems it's far more boring. Your screen gets a dark gray overlay, and a multi-lingual message appears to the effect that your computer has been halted to avoid data corruption and please restart it.
I've seen both these standard panics in the long past. On my 7500 & BeigeG3, both with 450 G4s and max'd out memory I've been having some old fashioned OS 9 type freezes recently in 10.3.5. I check the memory and ran memory tests overnight on both with no problems found.
There are two types I'm seeing:
1) Everything freezes solid. Cursor is frozen. No keyboard commands work except Cmd-Ctl-Pwr for the instant Restart (the bad way). This is frustrating because I can't Force Quit any applications, or do anything other than Restart. I usually Restart to an OS 9 HD and then boot a FW Utility disk to run DiskWarrior etc. before rebooting the frozen drive, just in case.
2) The spinning beachball of death cursor. It moves about the screen and spins . . . forever. No Force Quit, nothing works except Restart.
I suspect something about the Window Server because these seem to happen when applications are opening new windows. I don't think these are panics, but the result is the same.
Kris Tilford
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