This may offer some additional insight as well . . . http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227
Ward Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us On May 13, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On May 12, 2005, at 10:01 PM, Greg Schoettmer lamented: > > >> I have absolutely NOTHING attached to my Mac. Not even a >> printer. Not a wireless network card. Nada! I pulled out the Mac >> book last night and it gave me the same explanation that you have. >> Unfortunately it?s having a kernel fit every time I try to shut >> down. I?ve only had this computer a couple of months so I?m going >> to call Apple tonight and see what?s up. >> > > My suspicion is that most kernel panics can be traced to something > messed up on a hard drive. For example, often, a kernel panic > results when the operating system cannot read or write to a swap > file. A kernel panic on shutdown could be caused by one of files > needed to properly shut the system down being damaged, having the > wrong permissions, or gone missing entirely. > > Kernel panics are quite rare, and I don't think they're often > caused by bad peripherals. They might be caused by bad or > mismatched drivers for those peripherals, but even that is more > likely to freeze up the machine than cause a kernel panic. This is > because a kernel panic is usually caused when the Darwin kernel > receives an instruction with the wrong format, or tries to write > information to a memory address that isn't there, such as in a > damaged swap file. > > The only kernel panic I can recall with Mac OS X came when a power > failure messed up my hard drive. > > My advice is to throw a disk utility or two at the hard drive and > check it for bad blocks, permission problems and messed up > directories. If this doesn't help, wipe the drive and reinstall the > operating system because this will certainly replace a damaged > file, and, if the drive has a problem, it'll likely show up when > you try to move around a few thousand files during an operating > system install. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
