Strange Kernel Panics In 10.1.5 |
January, 02, 2003 11:16 AM |
cmsklar |
I've been running OS X on a G4/400 PM8600 w/320MB RAM since the release of 10.1. Never a hiccup. After a rare but brief boot into OS 9.1, when I tried to restart OS X, XPostFacto (2.2.4) terminated on error -2. Restarting by cmnd-cntrl-power, my Mac booted halfway into OS X and then...kernel panic. Lots of experimentation (and some insignificant disk maintenance) later, the only thing I have discovered is that if I have XPostFacto reinstall the extensions I get a nice clean entry into X. Once in X everything's just fine. But I have to do this (make XPF reinstall the extensions) EVERY time I want to start/restart OS X, otherwise panic. Anyone have an idea what's up and how this can be remedied short of a fresh install OS X? -- Chuck |
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RE: Strange Kernel Panics In 10.1.5 |
January, 20, 2003 5:08 PM |
OSXGuru |
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You know, this has been reported by a couple of people now and then. I haven't had much of a theory before, but there is one possibility that occurs to me now. It is possible that your extensions cache (/System/Library/Extensions.mkext) is corrupt for some reason. Try deleting it--it ought to be recreated when Mac OS X boots. If that doesn't help permanently, then try deleting it each time instead of reinstalling extensions. If that works, then you'll at least know exactly what the problem is. The reason I suggest this is that the only real difference that reinstalling extensions each time ought to make is that it deletes the cache. |
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