Pop into the Utilities folder and start up the Console app.
Once it gets going you can access the various logs that are kept by
clicking on the Logs icon.
Then just cruise through the various crash logs and systems logs until
you narrow thing down a bit.
Jerry
p.s. Of course you can also get to this same info using Terminal to
read the logs (along with sudo for the protected ones).
On Apr 19, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> Here could be a coincidence, could be something bad:
>
> After updating to 10.3.9 yesterday morning, I had my first-ever kernel
> panic on my work machine today. I was working, back to the machine,
> when iTunes started skipping, as it does often when using VPC 7. Since
> VPC 7 was not running, I turned around to see what was going on... and
> there was the kernel panic screen.
>
> How would I track down the cause?
>
> Bill
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