Forced Restarts in 10.2.8 |
October, 15, 2003 7:35 PM |
tomquinlan |
I have been getting forced restarts for the first time with 10.2.8. I have NEVER gotten this kind of screen in any previous version (I started with 10.2). It is like a dark gray opaque blind (you can see whatever is in the background, but dimly) will start at the top of the screen and come down over the whole screen. In the middle is a bright white box telling you that you MUST restart your computer and it tells you how (by holding in your power button for several seconds). The white box also has a large power symbol as a faint watermark in it. There are no buttons to push or options except restarting. It has happened 3 times today when I've tried to go into the Screen Effects control panel. Actually it will go "into" the Screen Effects control just fine but when you close the window you get this gray screen of death (so to speak). I have repaired permissions several times. Any ideas. Tom |
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Good Tip. Thanks. |
October, 16, 2003 9:28 PM |
tomquinlan |
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Ahhh. So these are the kernel panics I hear you guys talking about. That's a good tip about turning on "Show Panic Text" in XPostFacto. Done. But now I can't get the problem to reoccur! I did upgrade to the new QuickTime though so maybe that is the difference. Thanks for all the input. Tom |
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RE: Forced Restarts in 10.2.8 |
October, 16, 2003 12:13 AM |
joevt |
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It's called a Kernel Panic. There's an option in XPostFacto called "Show Panic Text". If that option is turned on, then whenever a Kernel Panic occurs, that message will be replaced with info that a programmer could use to tell you what kernel extension caused the panic. |
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RE: Forced Restarts in 10.2.8 |
October, 16, 2003 12:03 AM |
Tom_Barrett |
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Yeah, I hate it when the Colonel visits. I had that with some PC Cards in early versions of 10.2. None recently. Well, 10.2.8 is beginning to act up on the Kanga again. I've been testing some WiFi cards between systems and when I went to boot to the SCSI drive, it got stuck in the reboot mode. Then it would hang at the grey screen just before the grey Apple appears at boot. Then it couldn't open the SCSI drive and the only way to boot into X was to boot to 9 and use XPF. These are the same symptoms as before. At least I haven't lost the ADB again..... yet. Not sure what to do. I'm still getting the verbose startup message about bad bridge mapping (or whatever it was), I'm pretty sure it's talking about the PCMCIA bus. Maybe it's just a bad install? I have 10.2.6 on the SCSI, I'm thinking about trying a clean install and then going straight to 10.2.8 and see what happens. I might just have to settle on 2.6 for awhile. |
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RE: Forced Restarts in 10.2.8 |
October, 15, 2003 9:13 PM |
willschou1 |
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Well glad to hear it's the first time you've seen this screen ;-) I've gotten it with a number of upgrades and changes in software using 10.2 . 10.2.5 & 10.2.6 were really great on my hardware no real issues at all. 10.2.8 seems to have all kinds of small issues including the forced to restart screen like you see. Running Disk Warrior ,repairing permissions and finally re-installing the 10.2.8 combo upgrade again then repairing permissions right seems to have done the job I hope ;-) It only been one day so not sure yet. Next thing I will try if need be is downgrading back to 10.2.6 which I'm not sure can be done by just installing over 10.2.8 . I hope that isn't needed . My Apple studio display monitor died right after installing 10.2.8 so that was also a worry... Best of luck. |