[Dex13]

So my comp was crashing every every 5 minutes consistently after logging in.

I pulled my external Firewire Hard Drive and now I'm crash free.
Now I checked the panic.log but I can't make heads or tails of it.

So if someone here can it would be greatly appreciated.


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Sat Aug 30 10:16:33 2003


panic(cpu 0): getnewbuf: bp @ 0xe3ee738 is LOCKED! (flags 0x60106220)

Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x0008581C 0x00085C4C 0x000287B4 0x000A9D0C 0x000A8EDC 0x000A8084 0x000A815C 0x0F6927F8
0x000BE3BC 0x001ECC0C 0x001ECA54 0x0020F3CC 0x00092970 0x00000000
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.symantec.kext.symfs(7.0.2)@0xf68f000
dependency: com.symantec.kext.symdc(1.3)@0xf722000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x0F7FD500)
PC=0x90000E0C; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x0F64AE00; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x00023FA8; R1=0xBFFFF680; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

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[:XI:]

"com.symantec.kext.symfs" what symantec apps are you running?

[Dex13]

Originally posted by :XI::
"com.symantec.kext.symfs" what symantec apps are you running?

Would that be my norton utilities?

[version]

yup, it's probably screwing with your system somehow, Norton is (in)famous for being an OS killer. i've never installed it on the Mac, but on my PC it just destroyed it. Try de-installing it, and see if that helps.

[K++]

Originally posted by version:
yup, it's probably screwing with your system somehow, Norton is (in)famous for being an OS killer. i've never installed it on the Mac, but on my PC it just destroyed it. Try de-installing it, and see if that helps.

LOL! Sorry but the naivete of that statement got to me. I accidentally installed the Norton System Works
which from this point will be referred to as The Crap, ontu my machine. I installed The Crap because my system was having file system problems. Eventually I found the cause of the problem and wanted The Crap gone since I realized my heinous error. well, the uninstaller didn't do it completely. Thier were parts of the crap still lodged in my system since when I booted a warning panel talking about corrupt extensions was glaring at me. The panel was from The Crap. So I ran the uninstaller again, and yet again The Crap still stayed.

So I got my OS X disk, wiped the HD and installed X anew to get The Crap off m HD. Moral of the story, NEVER LET NORTON LIVE ON YOUR HD. Using it from the CD is fine, but never install it, EVER.

[Detrius]

I would like to ammend this by saying that System Works 2.0 is crap to install. However, System Works 3.0 appears to have fixed all of these issues. As a tech, I use this on a daily basis without problems. If anyone has complaints about 3.0, I would like to hear them.

[suthercd]

Detrius,

I hope you are right for their sake. Norton has caused such devastating problems for soooo long (years) that it is going to take a lot for anyone in the OS X community to have any trust at all in their products.

Craig

[Dex13]

Thx guys everything works fine now.

Stupid Norton. And I thought it was there to help me.