I have the new 10.2.8 patch installed on my Powerbook. I decided to see what the battery meter would do when I cnaged brightness. I brought it up and down a few times, then all of a sudden my screen faded to the blue, and the login window reappeared. Every program crashed hard with no chance of saving data. Any idea what happened? Below is the crash info from loginwindow.crash.log
Date/Time: 2003-10-03 23:03:59 -0600
OS Version: 10.2.8 (Build 6R73)
Host: DragonBook.local.
Command: loginwindow
PID: 363
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000008
Thread 0:
#0 0x90073ba8 in mach_msg_trap
#1 0x90005ed0 in mach_msg
#2 0x901489f0 in __CFRunLoopRun
#3 0x90180f58 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific
#4 0x969a3b70 in RunCurrentEventLoopInMode
#5 0x969b3b00 in ReceiveNextEventCommon
#6 0x969dabbc in BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode
#7 0x9308dedc in _DPSNextEvent
#8 0x930a0158 in -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:]
#9 0x930b1d88 in -[NSApplication run]
#10 0x00006ab0 in 0x6ab0
#11 0x00004ad4 in 0x4ad4
#12 0x00004954 in 0x4954
Thread 1 Crashed:
#0 0x97e56a88 in -[NSCFTimer userInfo]
#1 0x97df4dd8 in __NSFireTimer
#2 0x90163230 in __CFRunLoopDoTimer
#3 0x90148d28 in __CFRunLoopRun
#4 0x90180f58 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific
#5 0x97e05680 in -[NSRunLoop runMode:beforeDate:]
#6 0x97e19188 in -[NSRunLoop run]
#7 0x0033ecc0 in -[BezelServicesTask cgsListen:]
#8 0x97e2cc50 in forkThreadForFunction
#9 0x90020c28 in _pthread_body
Thread 2:
#0 0x90073ba8 in mach_msg_trap
#1 0x90005ed0 in mach_msg
#2 0x0000a248 in 0xa248
#3 0x0000a138 in 0xa138
#4 0x90020c28 in _pthread_body
Thread 3:
#0 0x90000d6c in read
#1 0x0000ae04 in 0xae04
#2 0x90020c28 in _pthread_body
Thread 4:
#0 0x9003e9a8 in semaphore_wait_signal_trap
#1 0x9003e7c4 in _pthread_cond_wait
#2 0x97e340a0 in -[NSConditionLock lockWhenCondition:]
#3 0x930819a0 in -[NSUIHeartBeat _heartBeatThread:]
#4 0x97e2cc50 in forkThreadForFunction
#5 0x90020c28 in _pthread_body
PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x97e56a88 srr1: 0x0000d030 vrsave: 0x00000000
xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x00345ae4 ctr: 0x9016ab1c mq: 0x00000000
r0: 0x00345ae4 r1: 0xf002f250 r2: 0x44002420 r3: 0x019f51b0
r4: 0xf002f220 r5: 0x019f5180 r6: 0xf002f450 r7: 0x20000000
r8: 0xa0131c4c r9: 0x00000000 r10: 0xa0130d40 r11: 0x97e33524
r12: 0x9016ab1c r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000001
r16: 0x00000001 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x24002420 r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x00008d1f r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x003106d0 r23: 0x003177b8
r24: 0x00000001 r25: 0xa01330f4 r26: 0x0000004e r27: 0x17127910
r28: 0xa0131674 r29: 0xf002f310 r30: 0x00318320 r31: 0x00345abc