[Reggie Fowler]

I've only been playing around with Tiger for 15 hours, but i've already had two kernal panics. Both occured while 'shutting down' the system. One was a pure shutdown, and the other was a reboot. They occured on two different machines.

A message came up asking me to hold down the POWER KEY on the computer to reboot. After rebooting, a message pops up saying the computer wasn't properly shutdown, and it asks if it can message Apple about the problem.

Anyone else experience crashes? Maybe this OS isn't as stable as once thought.

[dru]

It might be more helpful if you say what kind of install you did. And you only mention one config in your signature, are both machines identical?

This kind of posting that you did is a troll since it gives no specifics and is thus highly suspect.

[Big Mac]

Unless Tiger has added an ungraceful restart warning that I have not heard of, I have to suspect the original post. The Mac has not warned about that since the classic Mac OS. Snidely commenting on the alleged instability of the OS also adds to the questionability of the post.

[Reggie Fowler]

You guys are crazy. The first computer is a G5 2.4ghz. The second is a G4 1.44 Ghz.

[Busemann]

Sounds like you have Little Snitch installed. If you have, upgrade to the latest version.

[awaspaas]

kernel

[Drakino]

Validate any system extensions you installed are fully Tiger compatible. Things changed under the hood quite a bit, and something old could cause problems.

To find them, go to About this Mac, click More Info, and under Software, click Extensions. Look at the dates. Anything not 3/26/05 or 3/27/05 is likely not an Apple part of the kernel and needs to be checked for Tiger compatibility.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Unless Tiger has added an ungraceful restart warning that I have not heard of, I have to suspect the original post. The Mac has not warned about that since the classic Mac OS.

I had to hard-restart a 15" Aluminum Powerbook that would not wake from sleep (had been in clamshell mode, hooked up to a monitor), and Tiger DOES provide such a message upon recovery from an 'ungraceful' restart.

[Big Mac]

Originally Posted by [APi]TheMan

I had to hard-restart a 15" Aluminum Powerbook that would not wake from sleep (had been in clamshell mode, hooked up to a monitor), and Tiger DOES provide such a message upon recovery from an 'ungraceful' restart.

Ah, good to know. . . I apologize, Reggie.

[hayesk]

A kernel panic usually says what it was doing at the time of the panic, does it not? I haven't had one in a couple of years, and the text showed it was the iJect kernel extension (broke upgrading from 10.1 to 10.2).

[Richyfp]

Excitingly, I had a Tiger kernel panic earlier today. It looked like this. When I restarted, it showed me this, which I found quite amusing.

"Holy crap, your whole operating system just unexpectedly quit. That is a damn shame - we'd best tell Apple."

[Taipan]

Hi!

I had a few kerner panics in Tiger, too, and i was also suspecting Little Snitch, but I had another one after upgrading to the new beta. I also had some strange freezes, I got the rainbow wheel in one (but not always the same) application and I couldn't even bring up the force-quit window, and when I opened a new window in Terminal it didn't get as far as the input prompt. That was after doing an upgrade install. Now I did an archive&install on the same system and haven't had any problem since, though I haven't worked on it long enough to be convinced that the problem is really solved.

[hayesk]

Originally Posted by Richyfp

Excitingly, I had a Tiger kernel panic earlier today. It looked like this. When I restarted, it showed me this, which I found quite amusing.

"Holy crap, your whole operating system just unexpectedly quit. That is a damn shame - we'd best tell Apple."

I believe if you click "Report" it will show you what was going on at the time.

[CharlesS]

You should post the panic log in here. It's a bit hard for people to help you without this information.