On Jul 17, 2009, at 10:58 PM, Dan wrote:

>
> At 3:50 PM -0400 7/17/2009, Bill Connelly wrote:
>> On Jul 17, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Dan wrote:
>>>> This has happened before, and I am wondering if its a problem with
>>>> the
>>>> AGP video card, or just the overall system Startup after unplugging
>>>> my
>>>> G4 (and not to worry since everything seems to be back and working
>>>> now).
>>>
>>> Could be the card.
>>>
>>> Have you been inside that Mac recently?   IOW, could the cards or
>>> cables need reseating?
>>
>> Installed a new RAM stick. Maybe I need to do another cmd-opt-P-R? I
>> was using another monitor while testing the new stick.
>>
>> My system froze again while sitting in Mail app open. Log showed same
>> thing.
>>
>> Logs attached under personal off list e-mail.
>
> The logs aren't definative.  Could be a video issue but more liikey  
> memory.
>
> Reseat the memory and video card.
> Run memtest over night or the equiv.
>
> If the panics continue, pull the new stick.
>

Thanks for looking.

I had already tested the new stick alone with memtest from applejack.  
And then sandwiched between 2 known good ones.

3 cycles of memtest each. I'll Startup again and run memtest again ...

Since my last thread entry, I reseated the video card, and on CUDA,  
cmd-opt-P-R Startup, the 3rd - 5th partitions of my harddrive took a  
relatively long time to come up on my desktop.

When I looked at the log, it appears the Spotlight indexes were  
corrupt in some form that Restarting would have corrected according to  
the log entry.

I did the Terminal routine of turning off Spotlight for each  
partition, getting rid of the index, and reindexing, allowing it to  
run to completion under Leopard:

#!/bin/sh
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/Leopard-10.5
sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/Leopard-10.5
sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Leopard-10.5
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/Tiger-10.4.11
sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/Tiger-10.4.11
sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Tiger-10.4.11
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/APPS
sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/APPS
sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/APPS
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/DOCS
sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/DOCS
sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/DOCS
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/Classic-9.2.2
sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/Classic-9.2.2
sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Classic-9.2.2

Maybe its really my partitioning scheme and Spotlight?

I had also jumped to Tiger and back, updating my Tiger partition (with  
the latest iTunes, etc). And I believe I stopped the Spotlight  
indexing under Tiger, which may have caused the problem.

Curious how Spotlight handles things when you go from one OS X to  
another (Leopard > Tiger > Leopard). I believe stopping it in Tiger  
using Privacy can cause corruption of the index files?

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