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Prijker · Jun 1, 2003, 04:44 PM

I'd like to say i'm really happy tonite cuz it's official, now i can reveal it to everyone:

i haven't had a single kernel panic in the last year, exactly since June 1st 2002!

(clap, clap...!)

Thanks you! Thank you I did nothing, really

OSX did it all

I luuuv X

I thought i had to say this, cuz i only read about problems here at MaCNN forums

Someone has to be happy to be a Mac user

Vic

Sharky K. · Jun 1, 2003, 04:49 PM

because of some serious samba bugs I can't join your party

dettociao · Jun 1, 2003, 05:24 PM

Originally posted by Sharky K.:
because of some serious samba bugs I can't join your party

ditto.

MacGorilla · Jun 1, 2003, 07:04 PM

I can! wooooooooooot!

Cipher13 · Jun 1, 2003, 07:24 PM

I think my last kernel panic was invoked intentionally, so I could see the 10.2 KP screen...

Scifience · Jun 1, 2003, 08:08 PM

Originally posted by Cipher13:
I think my last kernel panic was invoked intentionally, so I could see the 10.2 KP screen...

LOL

Same here, though....

barbarian · Jun 1, 2003, 08:14 PM

I hadn't had a kpanic since 10.0 and then recently I installed an airport base station... since then I've had a few mainly when fiddling with the networking settings.

Another way to invoke... switch monitor settings when remote-desktoped into a two or three headed machine.

ryju · Jun 1, 2003, 08:18 PM

Originally posted by Sharky K.:
because of some serious samba bugs I can't join your party

i have yet to get a KP from that, and i have an SMB share mounted 24/7. but it still screws things up sometimes.

TheTraveller · Jun 1, 2003, 08:35 PM

Originally posted by ryju:
i have yet to get a KP from that, and i have an SMB share mounted 24/7. but it still screws things up sometimes.

It seems that all of my KP's have been when I've been waking from sleep then trying to access an SMB share via Airport. I've had 3 of these, and that's a huge percentage of my total KP count (since DP3).

exa · Jun 1, 2003, 09:28 PM

'sudo kextunload applefan.kext' apparantely was not a smart thing to do

That was 3/18...

BGK · Jun 1, 2003, 10:58 PM

my shanked Maxtor HD causes all my Kernel panics and woes. beep beep!

thanks apples and maxtors!

macmike42 · Jun 1, 2003, 11:43 PM

Originally posted by exa:
'sudo kextunload applefan.kext' apparantely was not a smart thing to do That was 3/18...

LOL, did it panic instantly, or did it take until your heatsink reached its boiling point?

I've seen lots of OS X kernel panics, but never a single one my trusty Beige G4 (incidentally also with a Maxtor HD which been going strong for the past 4 years)...

Gul Banana · Jun 2, 2003, 01:29 AM

No panics in the past year on my desktop, but a couple of SMB ones on my laptop.

TC · Jun 2, 2003, 04:02 AM

Last time I saw a kernel panic was after installing Microsoft Media Player.
Thanks to MPlayer and VLC that won't be happening again.

Betox · Jun 2, 2003, 07:32 AM

I've seen the Kernel Panic screen once in my second year of using Max OS X, and as of today, I don�t know what provoke it.

-Q- · Jun 2, 2003, 07:49 AM

Oddly enough, I've seen a kernel panic more on my iBook 800 (3) than my beige G4 (never). Each time, the kernel panic was related to something screwy on the network (SMB share, switching from wired to Aiport, etc.).

But I'll still crash the party.

dfiler · Jun 2, 2003, 02:45 PM

Down with ambiguous thread titles.

tooki · Jun 2, 2003, 02:47 PM

My Pismo gets plenty of KPs now, thanks to 10.2.4 and later, which have SERIOUS problems with hot-plugging PC Card and Media Bay devices (PC Card and the media bay are both basically IDE... maybe Apple should start looking there!).

tooki

Prijker · Jun 2, 2003, 02:55 PM

Sorry, dfiler, title was meant to be ambiguous and humoral.

Vic

oVeRmInD911 · Jun 2, 2003, 05:10 PM

I've only got a kernal panic when I tried to install Mac OS X 10.0.0 over 10.1.3. That was pretty dumb. I just wanted to see how slow it really was.

exa · Jun 2, 2003, 05:58 PM

Originally posted by macmike42:
LOL, did it panic instantly, or did it take until your heatsink reached its boiling point?

I've seen lots of OS X kernel panics, but never a single one my trusty Beige G4 (incidentally also with a Maxtor HD which been going strong for the past 4 years)...

Instant panic. I was wondering if the fan would turn off or go into blower mode but no, instant death.

cowicide · Jun 2, 2003, 06:02 PM

I honestly don't even know what a kernal panic looks like. Rock solid.

KidRed · Jun 2, 2003, 08:12 PM

Titles. Titles that are specific please.

Shaddim · Jun 2, 2003, 10:47 PM

If it weren't for my Belkin USB hub, I don't think I would have ever gotten one... it caused 2.

Since I went to a Griffin Audio hub it's never even hiccuped while I have my PB "tethered" to my desktop. Haven't gotten a single KP "out and about" on battery power. Awesome!

Superchicken · Jun 2, 2003, 11:55 PM

Had one KP after updating to X.1 but that's it.. then again I rarely use X because it's sooo slow with classic apps that I don't have cash to update.

Anyway, OS X rocks my casba... can't wait for a 12 inch PB

goose · Jun 3, 2003, 01:25 AM

Originally posted by Prijker:
I'd like to say i'm really happy tonite cuz it's official, now i can reveal it to everyone:

i haven't had a single kernel panic in the last year, exactly since June 1st 2002!

(clap, clap...!)

Thanks you! Thank you I did nothing, really
OSX did it all

I luuuv X

I thought i had to say this, cuz i only read about problems here at MaCNN forums
Someone has to be happy to be a Mac user

Vic

Congrats. I was almost there. I didn't have any KPs be

tween the PB and 10.2.5. But then I ran into the USB hub issue and got them almost every day. Been happy since 10.2.6 though.

ASIMO · Jun 3, 2003, 01:30 AM

Originally posted by dfiler:
Down with ambiguous thread titles.

At least it is mechanically correct.

sushiism · Jun 3, 2003, 10:03 AM

I've NEVER EVER had a KP since i bought my Ti800 in hmm september i think it was last year. Never understood why people get so many of em

greenG4 · Jun 3, 2003, 03:22 PM

No KP since X beta.

BGK · Jun 3, 2003, 03:24 PM

KPs when playing Alice.

chris v · Jun 4, 2003, 06:17 AM

I've got a bad RAM chip I can send to anyone feeling nostalgic for a KP.

I don't think my Dual Gig has KP'd since 10.2. My Sawtooth hasn't KP'd since I removed that chip. It's been six months or so for the Cube. Things are pretty stable, lately.

CV

cambro · Jun 4, 2003, 08:24 AM

Same here...not a panic since 10.0.

People with regular panics have one or all of the following:

1) 3rd party hacks and/or kernel extensions
2) USB device maddness
3) bad hardware (crappy RAM, etc.)

If you don't torque your system with 3rd party hacks and you keep your hardware up to snuff, X should not panic. At least that has been my experience with the 5 macs I "administer" (Pismo, iBook, eMac, original Ti Book, Ghz Tibook).

pliny · Jun 4, 2003, 09:01 AM

probably been 2 years since a kernel panic, think ive had only that one in fact.

d0ubled0wn · Jun 4, 2003, 05:14 PM

I got this one a couple weeks ago on 10.2.6:

Purty ain't she? I'm now very afraid to click on that Sugar Ray album...

Axo1ot1 · Jun 4, 2003, 05:39 PM

Originally posted by d0ubled0wn:
I got this one a couple weeks ago on 10.2.6:

Purty ain't she? I'm now very afraid to click on that Sugar Ray album...

Good. Sugar Ray is teh poop

DamnDJ · Jun 4, 2003, 05:56 PM

After getting my new G4 about 2 months ago, I was getting a kernel panic every day.

I took it in to the Apple Store for repair, and they were able to get it to KP once in the weeks time it was there. Thankfully they replaced the logic board and the processors and I haven't had one since! It was quite nice having an uptime of 17 days.

Kyle Dreaden · Jun 4, 2003, 07:15 PM

It's funny. As a recent switcher (I've had my PowerMac MDD dual 1.25 for almost four months) from winXP and *shiver* winME, I can deal with a kernel panic or two. Honestly, it scares me how many crashes I dealt with on my PC in the past years. It was an hourly occurence. Count your blessings, Just remember, we're free of the Blue Screen of Death forever. Free at last, Free at last, thank Steve Jobs, we're free at last.

bousozoku · Jun 4, 2003, 08:21 PM

I had a kernel panic after installing the Mac OS X public beta and not again until 10.2.4. 10.2.5 did not improve the situation but 10.2.6 has put stability back to where it was.

neely · Jun 5, 2003, 05:03 AM

Been using X since 10.0.3 and have never had a kernel panic, despite using various USB connections to digital camera, PDA, Zip drive, card reader, and also using a Firewire CD-RW. Now running 10.2.6.

And if that isn't tempting fate, I don't know what is.

radarbob · Jun 5, 2003, 07:44 AM

Have had our 700MHz iceBook 11 months 1 week now... one KP all that time. No idea what might have done it. Rebooted and everything was copacetic.

Have had OS X on my RevA iBook for 3 months. No KPs.