[RAILhead]

Hey there

I just spent I don't know how long reading through all the crash logs on my system, all to no avail.

What I'm trying to do is track-down why my DP 1.25GHz MDD is randomly crashing. When I say randomly, I mean sometimes it will refuse to wake up, sometimes I'll get the good ol' Kernel Panic, and twice now, the system (UI and all) will freeze ala the old OS 9 days. I was hoping that some trace or reason for these freezes would be written in one of the various logs -- but if they are, I can't find them.

Is there some way to backtrace what could be causing this? With the old KPs, you saw the gory details. But if I'm freezing during sleep, does that information get written anywhere?

I'm not trying to resolve the issue just yet -- I'm wanting to know if there's any way to get any "documentation" on it via OS X's UNIX underbelly.

FWIW, I'm running OS X 10.2.4, 2GB RAM, DP 1.25GHz MDD.

Any info would be appreciated,
Maury

[milhous]

Maybe you can post some of the console logs so others can take a stab at what it might be.

Is any of the RAM in your MDD third-party? In other words, did you install any of it yourself? If you did, try removing some of RAM and see if the system is any more stable.

Also, a clean install from 10.2 with a 10.2.4 combo update might also help, but should be a last resort.

[RAILhead]

Right, but back to my question: which logs should I look to, specifically? Which system (or whatever) log would most likely have the info I need?

[Gul Banana]

/Library/Logs/panic.log is very likely to have useful information, and /var/log/system.log also might be useful.

[Adam Betts]

Guy Incognito/Pepi Picklefoot have similar problem to your's and maybe he could help.

I think he is banned from here though.