Re: [OT] Black Screen of Death

2004-11-04 Thread Bill Stephenson
On Oct 17, 2004, at 7:57 AM, Bill Stephenson wrote: Sometimes, usually when I get to my desk in the morning, my mac has a black screen with scrolling white text On Oct 17, 2004, at 4:56 PM, Joel Rees wrote: It ought to be in one of the logs, yes. Sorry that I don't remember which. Check in

Re: [OT] Black Screen of Death

2004-11-04 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Nov 4, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Bill Stephenson wrote: Well, it did it again this morning. I did my best to read the text but there isn't much in it that provides a clue to me... backtrace terminated unaligned frame address 0x003362B8 That's part of the standard kernel panic message - it doesn't

[OT] Black Screen of Death

2004-10-17 Thread Bill Stephenson
Sometimes, usually when I get to my desk in the morning, my mac has a black screen with scrolling white text (that I've yet to actually read). No way to stop it that I know of short of unplugging the computer and starting back up. Anyone else experiencing this? PowerMac, G4 1.25, Mirrored

Re: [OT] Black Screen of Death

2004-10-17 Thread Bill Stephenson
On Oct 17, 2004, at 8:59 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 17/10/2004 @ 13:57 +0100, Bill Stephenson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: Sometimes, usually when I get to my desk in the morning, my mac has a black screen with scrolling white text (that I've yet to actually read). No way to stop it that I know of

Re: [OT] Black Screen of Death

2004-10-17 Thread Joel Rees
I was hoping that the error might be found in one of the Console logs. It ought to be in one of the logs, yes. Sorry that I don't remember which. Check in /var/logs List by time, so you can tell which files were written most recently: ls -latT (IIRC. might want to man ls if that set of