On 01/01/2004, at 5:01 AM, Richard Kay wrote:
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.
<SNIP>
Just read Knowledge Base Article Apple ID: 107061. It is the latest
version of the kernel panic message and reads 'You need to restart your
computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the
Restart button'.
It appears in Mac OS X 10.2 or later, and indicates that a kernel panic
has likely occurred.
Looks like the message is in English, French, German and Japanese.
Knowledge Base Article Apple ID 106227 talks about kernel panics. It
seems a kernel panic is a type of error that occurs when the core
(kernel) of an operating system receives an instruction in an
unexpected format, or that it fails to handle properly. A kernel panic
may also follow when the operating system is not able to recover from a
different type of error. A kernel panic can be caused by damaged or
incompatible software or, more rarely, damaged or incompatible
hardware.
Another thing I've learned about my Mac ... ;-)
R.K.
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Richard Kay
Fremantle
Western Australia
