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David Wunder · Nov 9, 2003, 11:43 AM

After clean instal of Panther, about once a day I am geting the folowing text that appears on the screen:

Entering system dump routine
A panic server was not specified in the boot-args, terminating kernel core dump
ethernet MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
I.P. adress:0.0.0.0
Waiting for remote debugger conection.

I must then power off, then back on.

iBook G3 800 (dual USB)
640 RAM

ryaxnb · Nov 9, 2003, 12:15 PM

Not a kernel panic AFAIK, but something is definitely wrong. It shouldn't do that; my iBook can stay up for a week or more.

rilina · Nov 10, 2003, 06:26 AM

Originally posted by ryaxnb:
Not a kernel panic AFAIK, but something is definitely wrong. It shouldn't do that; my iBook can stay up for a week or more.

I got that message when I had a bad RAM module installed in my iBook. I've heard rumors that RAM that worked on 10.2.8 sometimes doesn't work on 10.3. Might be worth investigating.

ddma · Nov 10, 2003, 06:41 AM

Yes bad RAM! It happened on my new PowerBook G4 15 inch until I replaced the memory to other brand. Panther is very picky about memory.

Link · Nov 10, 2003, 07:24 AM

Any time it says "waiting for remote debugger connection" that's a panic.

If it feeds text in 10.2 or higher it's almost always a RAM or CPU problem.

good luck!