The same happened to me for a while. I tracked it down to a faulty FireWire cable. OS X crashed almost daily. After I replaced the FireWire cable with a new one I have had no more crashes.
MacOS X is sensitive to problems with external units and with drivers. Buggy drivers and faulty hardware can give Kernel Panics.
So no more Kernel Panics here for the last half year.
The same happened to me for a while. I tracked it down to a faulty FireWire cable. OS X crashed almost daily. After I replaced the FireWire cable with a new one I have had no more crashes.
MacOS X is sensitive to problems with external units and with drivers. Buggy drivers and faulty hardware can give Kernel Panics.
So no more Kernel Panics here for the last half year.
The single external device I have at the moment is a USB mouse. Other than that, a HiFi and an Ethernet switch are connected. And that is it.
No, it's an iBook. The mouse is there because I sometimes need the middle and right button for working in X11 and RDC.
I used to get few kernel panics related to SMB, but that's been resolved, it seems. My iBook still freezes after stand-by, often, though. Plus I've been having lots of 5-minute-freezes of the UI lately.
The tried-and-true method of determining if some hardware is causing the freezes or kernel panics is to simply unplug each one and see how you fare.
HP and Norton both (stupidly) create (maybe HP stopped?) kernel extensions that would give these types of problems too. I've kind of lucked out that none of my third-party software has tried to sudo itself into the System folder.
I had hard crashes with bublic beta and 10.0.0-10.1.4, but none with 10.1.5 and later. Also, most of the "crashes" was caused by the GUI getting utterly stuck. (only had 2 kernel panics ever)
SMB crashes OS X like clockwork if you get really intense with it. Once last week VLC hung OS X opening a movie. No other crashes since updating to Jaguar.
I've only had a few causes for a large number of hard crashes...
1. SMB stuff... If I don't play nice and unplug the machine I've mounted onto my os x laptop, then the finder goes all wacky.. though with enough patience, the system usually takes care of itself.
2. Carrara... It's a nice cheap 3d package, but MAN!.. on OS X it's painfully unstable.. but here again, I don't think I'm crashing OS X, but the video card.. I can't even cmd ctrl power button out of it.. I have to unplug and disconnect my battery to get the machine to pull out of it's funk.
3. I've had a few random crashes here and there that have caused me to have to reboot, but mostly since 10.2.4 things have been better for me actually.
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Originally posted by Chucker
Well, for me, since 10.2.4, it's almost DAILY.
The same happened to me for a while. I tracked it down to a faulty FireWire cable. OS X crashed almost daily. After I replaced the FireWire cable with a new one I have had no more crashes.
MacOS X is sensitive to problems with external units and with drivers. Buggy drivers and faulty hardware can give Kernel Panics.
So no more Kernel Panics here for the last half year.
Originally posted by tryd
The same happened to me for a while. I tracked it down to a faulty FireWire cable. OS X crashed almost daily. After I replaced the FireWire cable with a new one I have had no more crashes.
MacOS X is sensitive to problems with external units and with drivers. Buggy drivers and faulty hardware can give Kernel Panics.
So no more Kernel Panics here for the last half year.
The single external device I have at the moment is a USB mouse. Other than that, a HiFi and an Ethernet switch are connected. And that is it.
Originally posted by Spart
"Screenshot?" I presume you speak of a picture taken with a physical camera of a display with the KP screen on it.
Correct!
Originally posted by Spart
I've seen that. Just haven't seen it actually happen.
Me neither
Originally posted by CubeDude
Didn't you also have a keyboard attached?
No, it's an iBook. The mouse is there because I sometimes need the middle and right button for working in X11 and RDC.
I used to get few kernel panics related to SMB, but that's been resolved, it seems. My iBook still freezes after stand-by, often, though. Plus I've been having lots of 5-minute-freezes of the UI lately.
Originally posted by Spart
Escape Pod is good for full screen app crashes (like games.) Get you out of trouble in a hurry.
Thanks Spart. I am really not familiar with this. Is it a download?
HP and Norton both (stupidly) create (maybe HP stopped?) kernel extensions that would give these types of problems too. I've kind of lucked out that none of my third-party software has tried to sudo itself into the System folder.
Originally posted by Chinney
Thanks Spart. I am really not familiar with this. Is it a download?
Check
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/
Can be quite nifty. Though in full screen apps I do notice that if you hit cmd+opt+esc and the return key enough, the app in front dies.
Originally posted by Chucker
The single external device I have at the moment is a USB mouse.
I had an apple mouse that was causing KPs- new mouse - no problems
Originally posted by Aussie John
I had an apple mouse that was causing KPs- new mouse - no problems
We had a mouse once that caused my mother to panic
Originally posted by NETROMac
Me neither
And that makes you grumble? What's wrong with you, m8?!
10.2.4 is rock solid!
1. SMB stuff... If I don't play nice and unplug the machine I've mounted onto my os x laptop, then the finder goes all wacky.. though with enough patience, the system usually takes care of itself.
2. Carrara... It's a nice cheap 3d package, but MAN!.. on OS X it's painfully unstable.. but here again, I don't think I'm crashing OS X, but the video card.. I can't even cmd ctrl power button out of it.. I have to unplug and disconnect my battery to get the machine to pull out of it's funk.
3. I've had a few random crashes here and there that have caused me to have to reboot, but mostly since 10.2.4 things have been better for me actually.