Re: Random Kernel Panics
At 9:38 PM -0500 1/15/2011, Dan wrote: Kernel panics are not random: they occur for specific reasons. The gory details are recorded in the panic logs... Take a look at them. (for thread completeness). Mark emailed a panic.log to me. Each panic therein shows a crash in com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.kext(1.0)@0x6f3000 That's part of a free 3rd party Flash player from Elmedia that's known to be very buggy. Rather odd that they need to hack the OS (kernel extensions are code segments that are loaded into the core of the OS!) just to play Flash videos. That's the type of thing that should be done from a normal *non-privileged* user-mode codec, eg: a plug-in to QuickTime (which is what Adobe provides). via my email reply I recom that he dump the product and the extension. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Random Kernel Panics
Dan wrote: If you don't know how to read 'em, zip 'em up and email them to me directly (pls don't paste them into a reply here - they get re-wraped etc by the mail system, so they cannot be easily read or searched). Is there a website with instructions for how to interpret the "panic log"? Cheers, Drew -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Random Kernel Panics
At 1:07 PM -0800 1/15/2011, smac0031 wrote: In the past two months I've gotten 4 kernel panics. The first one I couldn't say what I was doing when it happened. The second and third happened when i was launching an old game and OS9, first changing the monitor resolution and then launching the old game. It happened twice in a row, when it would never happen before. The latest instance when I was running Firefox and looking at a couple of web pages. I would say these are pretty much random. I've run this game since the two kernel panics without a problem. This is am DAG4 with 1.6ghz processor upgrade, 1.5gigs of ram, OSX 1.4.11. This just started happening in the past couple of months. Any suggestions? Kernel panics are not random: they occur for specific reasons. The gory details are recorded in the panic logs... Take a look at them. If you don't know how to read 'em, zip 'em up and email them to me directly (pls don't paste them into a reply here - they get re-wraped etc by the mail system, so they cannot be easily read or searched). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Random Kernel Panics
In the past two months I've gotten 4 kernel panics. The first one I couldn't say what I was doing when it happened. The second and third happened when i was launching an old game and OS9, first changing the monitor resolution and then launching the old game. It happened twice in a row, when it would never happen before. The latest instance when I was running Firefox and looking at a couple of web pages. I would say these are pretty much random. I've run this game since the two kernel panics without a problem. This is am DAG4 with 1.6ghz processor upgrade, 1.5gigs of ram, OSX 1.4.11. This just started happening in the past couple of months. Any suggestions? Mark Murphy -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
