on 5/3/05 4:12 PM, choy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was hoping someone in WAMUG could give some advice- > > as another interesting aside, I couldn't make the jump to 10.3.8 - > updating using the combined update via software update resulted in > looping kernel panics upon restart or turning on my 12" powerbook. I've > had to archive and restore my powerbook three times! Lets hope 10.4 is > a little better.
Hi Dave, I am currently running 10.3.8 and possibly encountered the same problem as yours when I downloaded the very latest security up-date last week. Initially the update seemed to work fine, but on rebooting the machine the following day (I Shut Down after each session) I would encounter a Kernel Panic. Usually after rebooting as per the dialogue box message, the computer would work perfectly well, but would encounter another possible Kernel Panic on booting up. This seemed to happen haphazardly and only at boot-up. Not wanting to archive and restore, I went through the following: - Ran all the CRON scripts - ie daily, weekly and monthly. Must add that I run these scripts using either Yasu or MacJanitor without fail on their scheduled times - ie daily, weekly and monthly. - Zapped the PRAM. (That was the first time I did it on the current machine, G5 dual 1.8Ghz) - Ran Disk Warrior and also Disk Utility For some reason, it is now 4 days since doing the above and I have not encountered a Kernel Panic since then, fingers crossed! Speaking to Peter Hinchliffe at last WAMUG meeting, he did advise me to ensure that no Firewire or USB devices were plugged-in when doing an update. I'll be doing this next time, although I usually only have one active USB device, Iomega Zip, plugged into a USB2 4-port hub and no firewire device/s. Hope this does make sense. Regards, Philippe -- "A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other." - M.C. Richards --
