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Dealing with Kernal Panics
I was just wondering if anyone has suggestions on how to track down the source of an annoying kernal panic issue. I have a dual 2.3 Gz PowerPC G5 with 2.5 gigs of RAM. I’m sourcing from a SATA drives and FW-800 drives as well. I get panics pretty indiscriminantly, in FC Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and Motion-probably around one or two a week. The one that just happened was 50 minutes into laying a 55 minute program to tape. Bummer. I have not really been able to find anything consistant about them, and I’m not smart enough to understand panic logs. I wonder about bad ram, but I’ve checked it with Tech tools and not found anything wrong.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
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Welcome to the world of Apple!
Do you report these or do you just blow them off?
Always report issues like this. Otherwise, Apple will never fix them.
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You can research kernel panics at the apple.com knowledge base site (support area) but the wretched things are impossible to track down unless you have specialized software. You can run the Hardware Test app that came with your system disks for even less information but it’s worth a shot because, from my experiences, an intermittent kernel panic is most likely going to be related to a hardware issue.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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It’s always been a hardware issue for me too. Usually something to do with an external fw drive or deck for me. Sometimes one doesn’t like to be plugged into the back of the other, etc. Recently a client brought over 2 external fw drives and I was gettng panics. I had the 2 fw drives daisy chained to the front fw port (macpro) and the deck on the back port. I simply put the deck daisy chained to the drive on the front, and the 2nd drive on the back and the problem went away.
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I’ve been in the world of “the kernel panic and the frozen screen” for a while. Everithing went alright when I started to use Diskwarrior and Techtools.
Cheers.
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There are many things that can cause Kernal Panics (KP’s). It is ether software, or hardware. If it is software then most likely but not always it is the OS. If it is the OS then a archive and install may fix it. If it is some thing with the user account then you can then creating a new user account. It may be caused by a corrupt peace of software. If it is a software issue I recommend backing up your data and doing an erase and install. This will start you fresh.
However KP’s are often caused by a defective peace of hardware the most common being bad ram, processor, or logic board.
Now here is the cool part, open up Console, it is found in the Applications Folder under Utilities. Click on logs. Under Library/Logs look for panic.log. The information here is VARY cryptic and I don’t understand most of it. But in that panic log if it says CPU 0 or CPU 1 then it is caused by the processor.
If the log douse not say CPU and an erase and install douse not fix it then sigh up for an appointment at your local Apple Store and let a genius look at it.
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Thanks for the help. What’s weird is that with the panics yesterday and today they don’t seem to be writing to that panic log. There’s ones in there from months ago and those do mention cpu 0 data access, but the last 2 panics are not appearing in the log. I’m in 10.4.9 so I think they should be showing up.
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