[headbirth]

Anyone else run across this screen?

It appears as a dimmed screen with the center box undimmed and containing the command in three or four languages that you MUST restart, either hold down the power key or press restart.

There's no way to get out of it except restarting. On one restart the hard drive would not mount. When DiskUtilities are run the disk checks out fine.

I have run into two other people that have experienced this same screen while running 10.2.3.

Anyone have any idea of the cause? could it be a bug?

[voodoo]

Welcome to Kernel Panic.

[msuper69]

That's the OS X version of the Rosetta stone.

[headbirth]

Ahhh...this is what kernal panic is. My first time. So, what are the solutions :-)

[Millennium]

Originally posted by headbirth:
Ahhh...this is what kernal panic is. My first time. So, what are the solutions :-)

Try and figure out exactly what causes it. What were you doing when it came up before? If you do that again, does it crash again? By finding a KP, you've run across a bug somewhere (either in the OS itself or in a driver), and the next step is to figure out where that bug is so that you can contact the appropriate person to get it fixed.

A log of exactly what happened is also stored on your hard disk; unfortunately I don't remember exactly where that is at the moment (can someone help me out here?) Cut/Paste that file into a post here; we may be able to help figure out where the problem is.

By the way, if you do decide to try and hunt down the bug yourself and you're running 10.2.2 or higher, I suggest you turn on journaling. This will keep your hard disk from getting corrupted n crashes (reboots will also be faster), but your disc's performance may be a little slower while it is on. Other aspects of your machine's performance won't be affected. To do so, drop to a Terminal and type:

Code:
sudo diskutil enableJournal /

...when you're done, if you don't want to use journaling anymore (for example, if it was slowing down your machine and you want to reclaim that speed), you can turn it off with:

Code:
sudo diskutil enableJournal /

[:XI:]

Originally posted by Millennium:
...Terminal and type:

Code:
sudo diskutil enableJournal /

...when you're done, if you don't want to use journaling anymore (for example, if it was slowing down your machine and you want to reclaim that speed), you can turn it off with:

Code:
sudo diskutil enableJournal /

do you mean:

Code:
sudo diskutil disableJournal /

to disable it?