Ever had THIS kind of kernel panic?

dstranathandstranathan
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
I have an employee who said he was working in Photoshop on his Quicksilver G4 dual 800 (OS X 10.2.4) when "everything froze", and the Apple kernel panic? ("Error: you neeed to restart") screen *started* to draw on-screen, but didn't complete- the Mac then rebooted on it's own.



I examined the G4, and found no trace of an app or system crash in all the logs. In fact, his Mac has NEVER had a kernel panic, and he hadn't seen an app crash in 7 weeks.



Believe it or not?



I have seen a few kernel panics, but none that acted like this...

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Maybe there wasn't enough memory for the Window Manager or SystemUIServer when it started to panic, and instead of logging out, it just shut down. I don't know about the likelihood of that, but if the 'Reboot after power failure' option was checked in the Energy Saver prefs that may be why it restarted.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    thinkingdifferentthinkingdifferent Posts: 1,604member
    Maybe the employee is pulling the boss's chain.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Actualy I thought about it, and it wouldn't even be able to crash anything if it had started to panic. I vote for ThinkingDifferent's idea.
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