On Oct 17, 2004, at 7:57 AM, Bill Stephenson wrote:
Sometimes, usually when I get to my desk in the morning, my mac has a black screen with scrolling white text
On Oct 17, 2004, at 4:56 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
It ought to be in one of the logs, yes. Sorry that I don't remember which. Check in
/var/logs
Well, it did it again this morning. I did my best to read the text but there isn't much in it that provides a clue to me...
backtrace terminated unaligned frame address 0x003362B8
There were some other strings in the same line containing numbers that proceeded the above but I really had a hard time reading them and they may have been changing slightly as it was scrolling along. I know this last part "0x003362B8" of the string above did change several times while I tried to copy it to paper.
I could be wrong, but it seems to happen more often after I open Photoshop cs and/or ImageReady cs. GoLive is a little buggy and it too may be contributing to this, but I haven't noticed it directly and I have it open more often than the others.
Running the tests Joel mentions provided this:
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 58373 4 Nov 05:10:44 2004 windowserver_last.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 233931 4 Nov 03:15:20 2004 daily.out
-rw-r----- 1 root admin 2392 4 Nov 03:15:14 2004 system.log.0.gz
So I ran this...
Bill-Stephensons-Computer:/var/log root# tail -200 windowserver_last.log
Nov 04 04:44:59 [186] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXRemoveTrackingArea : Invalid tracking area
Nov 04 04:44:59 [186] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXRemoveTrackingArea : Invalid tracking area
Nov 04 04:44:59 [186] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXRemoveTrackingArea : Invalid tracking area
Which continued on for 194 more lines until it ended with this...
Nov 04 05:10:29 [186] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXRemoveTrackingArea : Invalid tracking area
Nov 04 05:10:29 [186] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXRemoveTrackingArea : Invalid tracking area
Nov 04 05:10:30 [186] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXPostEventByConnection: invalid connection
None of which helps me locate what's causing this "Black Screen of Death". Anyone here gain any insight from these messages?
Kindest Regards,
Bill Stephenson
