On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 05:41 PM, Eric D. wrote: > Wow. I guess you don't push your system much! I've managed to find > enough > kernel panics since OS X 10.0. The early ones were attributable to bad > RAM, > but that's been taken care of (JewelToy no longer crashes ;).
i push my system pretty hard. and i'm always breaking it. i'm always getting kernel panics. but only when i'm out trying to cause them to see what bugs are there. in ye-olde-standard use of the system, i've never had a kernel panic. currently, Bad or Reasonably Bad RAM is still the #1 cause of kernel panics that I see on a daily basis (I work for high volume Authorized Service Provider). I have a running tally on a white board of causes of kernel panics that customer's have brought in. second up is people doing weird crap to get around the OS X installer... chiefly, trying to get around the 8GB Partition Limit by first installing OS X with the drive installed in a non-8GB-limited machine; i lump installing OS X on unsupported machines into this category, since the kernel panic logs often state the same cause. > Kernel panics have been part of the bug reports for every release of > OS X -- > it's good but it ain't perfect. Plus, there are a plethora of reports > both > on Apple's discussion boards and on the independent Mac commentators of > kernel panics and problems with dial-up in 10.2.4 so it ain't my > imagination > or my system alone. the company i used to work with got interim builds of OS X from somewhere in the Developer Preview series all the way up to 10.0.something. at some points, we were getting new builds daily. in THOSE builds, i would get kernel panics aplenty, sometimes when the computer was merely idling. not only am i aware that kernel panics happen, i happen to actually know some of the guys that pull together the panic logs @ Apple to turn over to engineers for fixing. I'm not saying that they don't happen, or that you're an isolated issue. I'm saying that you're making too much out of this. have you tried doing an archive and install, then reapplying the 10.2.4 update? you're keen to document all the lines from your logs that are applicable... but until you do this, you haven't isolated the issue to an actual 10.2.4 issue, rather than an Installer error. > Anyway, count your blessing you're free of kernel panics. If > reinstalling OS > X wasn't such a pain in the derriere I'd downgrade to 10.2.3 but, > unless > things get particularly bad I'll just suffer with the occasional kernel > panic until 10.2.5. suit yourself. as of Jaguar, reinstalling OS X is pretty damned painless. the archive-and-install option leaves all of your Application and Users data in tact, and only reinstalls System Software. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
