On 31/12/2003, at 11:26 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
A strange one! For no obvious reason a grey veil dropped down across
the screen which was fully visible but muted. The computer froze and
a message box, white text on black, in English, German and Japanese
said that I needed to restart. A press of the restart button gave a
normal restart and all seems fine.
This did not look in the least like an OSX message and at first I
suspected a virus or similar. Is it perhaps from Unix?
Information would be most welcome!
I had 4 of these events occur on my iBook between Saturday and Tuesday
... post-10.3.2 update and battery update ... and always while surfing
the net in Safari. I think it is a system overload message of some
kind.
I started to call it THE GREY SHROUD OF DEATH ... incidentally don't
you like the way it slips down the screen ... silent but deadly?
On Tuesday night I reinitialised the drive, did a clean install of
everything (including 10.3.2 and battery update) and have not seen the
problem arise thus far (fingers crossed).
R.K.
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Richard Kay
Fremantle
Western Australia
