[DM-MUG] 3 crashes in 3 days

Victoria L. Herring dmmug@dmmug.org
Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:21:08 -0500


>Have you disconnected all external USB, SCSI, and FW devices? Also, 
>if you boot with command + V, you can see the terminal running 
>(verbose mode I think) and see where it hangs up. THere may be a 
>corrupt driver or other nonsense hanging it up. Will it boot with 
>the shift key held down?
>
>
Yes, I did a Safe Boot a few days ago.  What does it look like when 
it hangs up???  What would i be looking for???  In other words, how 
would i know it is corrupt?  I don't yet notice a pattern of what is 
going on when it panics....

thanks much....



>On Wednesday, June 02, 2004, at 02:05PM, Victoria L. Herring 
><vlherring@herringlaw.com> wrote:
>
>>I repaired permissions last week and again each day it has crashed ==
>>I have run fsck -y, I have run Disk warrior two or three times...RAM
>>has been fine since installed 1-2 yrs ago.  Only change I can think
>>of was install of 10.3.4 a few days ago....
>>
>>
>>>Hello All
>>>I had an intermittent Kernel Panic crash problem that lasted quite a
>>>while. Everything worked fine under OS 9 and the first version of OS
>>>X, then at least once a day I would get the Kernel Panic screen. The
>>>Factory installed RAM wouldn't play well with RAM that was the same
>>>brand and mg's but made a different year. Have you gone in to the
>>>disk utility and repaired the permissions? I would also do the hold
>>>down command and s during startup and then typing fsck -y . This
>>>will correct a lot of problems
>>>
>>>Someday you will find that there is a difference between wanting and having.
>>>
>>>http://www.kavanaughgallery.com
>>>On Jun 2, 2004, at 1:24 PM, Bryan Baker wrote:
>>>
>>>>Have you recently installed any hardware? RAM? Cards? anything?
>>>>Since 10.2 kernel panic's are rarely caused on most systems by
>>>>anything but hardware problems (afaik).
>>>>Ram is usually a good suspect.
>>>>
>>>>Jon or Matt might be more help here, but w/ KP's I'd look to 
>>>>hardware first.
>>>>
>>>>On Jun 2, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I have now had 1 crash per day for last 3 days...not sure of
>>>>>cause.  I have run Diskwarrior = friend sugg. backing up and
>>>>>formatting the HD.    I can do, but should I??  Any other ideas....
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>On May 31, 2004, at 8:22 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>I have now had this happen two days running -- the grey opaque screen
>>>>>   coming down with the warning to restart box in the middle.  So I have.
>>>>>   But what might this portend?  Is there anything I should do?? ...
>>>>>
>>>>>   These are kernel panics.  I would run Alsoft's DiskWarrior.
>  >>>>
>  >>>>  Paul
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>>I ran DiskWarrior yesterday.  It just panicked again.  Ideas???
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