[shadybirdstan]

Lucky me, my MBP is giving me a kernel panic at the login screen, however it will boot if I try to start in safe mode.

So far I've tried the following:

1. Zapped the PRAM
2. Removed RAM and tried to reboot
3. Removed all my login intems
4. Removed all the items from the startup folder

Here's the panic log:

Code:
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Wed Jan 24 21:58:14 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A3135): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0x00000000, CR3: 0x00e36000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x25113ec8, ECX: 0x0049fee0, EDX: 0x00000000
CR2: 0x00000000, EBP: 0x25112c18, ESI: 0x00000000, EDI: 0x03e35404
EFL: 0x00010202, EIP: 0x00197976, CS:  0x00000004, DS:  0x039a000c

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack) 
0x25112a68 : 0x128d1f (0x3c9540 0x25112a8c 0x131df4 0x0) 
0x25112aa8 : 0x1a3135 (0x3cf1f4 0x0 0xe 0x3cea24) 
0x25112bb8 : 0x19a8d4 (0x25112bd0 0x287 0x25112c08 0x40c872c) 
0x25112c18 : 0x4fcda80f (0x0 0x3a2afb4 0x126000 0x1) 
0x25113c68 : 0x203372 (0x0 0x3e35404 0x2 0xc02069c9) 
0x25113cb8 : 0x2017f4 (0x2 0x3e35404 0xc02069c9 0x25113ec8) 
0x25113dc8 : 0x201873 (0x3ec85e0 0xc02069c9 0x25113ec8 0x3e6c5dc) 
0x25113de8 : 0x351c57 (0x3ec85e0 0xc02069c9 0x25113ec8 0x3e6c5dc) 
0x25113e48 : 0x351d03 (0x3ec85e0 0xc02069c9 0x25113ec8 0x3e6c5dc) 
0x25113e68 : 0x330295 (0x3a2e470 0xc02069c9 0x25113ec8 0x3e6c5dc) 
0x25113e98 : 0x34e562 (0x3a2e470 0xc02069c9 0x25113ec8 0x3e6c5dc) 
0x25113f68 : 0x378337 (0x3e6c5dc 0x38cd848 0x38cd88c 0x0) 
0x25113fc8 : 0x19acae (0x37a5cf8 0x0 0x19d0b5 0x37a5cf8) No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffff908
      Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.cisco.nke.ipsec(2.0.0)@0x4fcd8000

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.1: Mon Sep 25 19:42:00 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.13.8.obj~1/RELEASE_I386


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Any help would be much appreciated.

[red rocket]

Just a thought.

Since you have that backtrace to com.cisco.nke.ipsec, I'd start with getting rid of your Cisco VPN client. Check out >>this thread<< for information on how.

[shadybirdstan]

Interestingly enough I did two things to "solve" the issue (I hope its solved at least):

1. Removed Album Art Thingy from my Login Items. When I added-->kernel panic, removed-->normal boot.
2. Removed the "Paralles" directory from /Library/StartupItems. Same as with Album Art Thingy, when its there it causes kernel panic. When removed it does not.

It looks like Parallels with the VPN client may very well be the culprit according to the post you linked to. Interestingly Parallels wasn't running at the time of shut down.