[Ryknow215]

Hi everybody. I was working on my Pismo tonight and I stepped away to grab some food. After a few minutes I came back to the computer and the screen faded out to the screensaver, as it usually does. It loaded the screensaver for about 5 seconds and then the image grayed over and a message box popped up telling me to "Please restart my computer" in English and about 5 other languages. It was completely locked up, neither the keyboard or the mouse brought it out of the screensaver.

I have not had any problems at all with my Pismo, and this is the first time I have seen this error/message. Any ideas what happened? I'm running OS X 10.3.9. Is this a sign of a serious problem that I should worry about?

I restarted the computer and everything booted up fine, no problems.

P.S. I at the time, I was typing a Word document and listening to iTunes. Nothing out of the ordinary, I wasn't running the system into the ground or anything like that. Basic stuff.

Thanks for your thoughts.

[madmacgames]

you just saw the friendly Kernel Panic message. If you just get it on occasion, I probably would not worry too much about it. I get them occasionally for seemingly no reason.

If you get them frequently however, that is probably a sign of some serious problem like bad hardware, bad RAM, bad software, etc.

[ibook_steve]

Well, you were using Word, so that would certainly explain it. ;-)

If you must know what went wrong, open up the Console utility in your Utilities folder, click on Logs, and check out your panic.log to see may have caused the kernel panic.

Steve

[Ryknow215]

Thu Dec 15 17:27:03 2005




Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x0000000000000010 PC=0x0000000000038AA8
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x23085780)
PC=0x00038AA8; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x00000010; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00038A90; R1=0x0CC5B990; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00F22000 0x000241A0 0x00290098 0x00290244 0x0029727C 0x002973F0 0x0026F6D8 0x0026F680
0x00660AB8 0x00656424 0x00281200 0x0007B428 0x00021668 0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318
0xFF6B9FAD
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.ATIRage128(3.2.8)@0x64e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x470000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x592000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x5b2000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x23085780)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x1FF04280)
PC=0x94C5E8B8; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x0225D000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x94C5E438; R1=0xF01B0CD0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

---So I'm guessing that the kernel panic was due to some error with my graphics. Makes sense considering the screen had just faded out and into the screensaver when it panicked.