[adamberti]

I had a really weird error come up yesterday after doing some network stuff. When connecting to an SMB server (aka Windows file sharing *I beleive*), and only a praticular one at that, it caused the following problem. It didnt happen to any other servers. (I'm on a campus network where you can see any server on the network).

As soon as I chose a volume to access (through the finder), it would display on my desktop like normal, but then when I double clicked on it to view it, it dissapeared. And then any subsequent SMB connections I tried to make would have errors. And eventually (within 5 minutes), a wipe from the top of the screen (like a video effect) brought a dark grey tint to the whole screen and a window in the middle appeared stating: "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or press the restart button." It said this in English, French, German? and Japanese? And at the bottom of that window was my ethernet card address and my ip address. the background image of this window was the power button (like on the PowerBook G4).

I reproduced it a couple of times, but got sick of restarting. Any thoughts on what is causing this or what the error is?

-Adam

[ngrundy]

That sir is a kernel panic and one of the differences between 10.1 and 10.2, apple managed to catch the kernel panic and display the message you saw instead of just having the text console break into the graphic interface.

I got it a couple of times and yes the SMB kernel module is to blame. Basicly i found that keeping transactions to 1 at a time against the smb mount keeps everything happy.

but it's one thing that will hopefully get a big overhaul/improvement in 10.3

[adamberti]

Ngrundy, thanks for the info. Now I know what to bug Apple about One other question, Does that message come up on any kernal panic now, or can the text console still show up?

[Technicolor]

Ha. I had the same error a few weeks ago and didn't know what the hell was happening. Good to know.

[der Kopf]

True actually, I had TWO kernel panics last week while working on a mounted .dmg file (I was creating a mountable OS 9.2.2 WITH systemworks installed on it for my comp). Anyhow, it does seem that their disk access kernel extensions need a little fine-tuning.