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kentuckyfried · 10:10 PM

How often do you experience kernel panics? name your machine, OS, and applications you were running.

asidrane · Jun 17, 2003, 05:22 PM

I've been receiving the oldschool KP for the last 8 months or so. I'm using Jaguar on a B&W g3, with an xlr8 g4 upgrade. It's not the ram, not the cpu upgrade, not my usb 2 card. I don't know what it is. When I say old school kp, I mean that the os doesn't catch it and politely tell me to reboot my machine. I got one of those once and a ton of the text writting over screen ones.

bighill · Jun 17, 2003, 05:28 PM

One this morning when I woke it.

awaspaas · Jun 17, 2003, 06:29 PM

It's kernel, with an "e."

Angus_D · Jun 17, 2003, 07:33 PM

And yet again, there is no answer for "I can't remember the last time I got a panic".

stuffedmonkey · Jun 17, 2003, 09:28 PM

I haven't had one in 9 months, nd that one was due to me messing around with a messed up tv tuner card from the dawn of time.

kentuckyfried · Jun 17, 2003, 10:11 PM

heheh....I've been getting a ton of these lately, I guess I'm not the only one having problems with 10.2.6.

msuper69 · Jun 17, 2003, 11:04 PM

Originally posted by Angus_D:
And yet again, there is no answer for "I can't remember the last time I got a panic".

Yes. And also another meaningless poll.

msuper69 · Jun 17, 2003, 11:06 PM

Originally posted by awaspaas:
It's kernel, with an "e."

How true.

And I've never had a kernal (sic) panic.

Sinemacula · Jun 17, 2003, 11:07 PM

10.2.6
Dual 533
1.12GB RAM

Kernel panic average 2-3 times/month over the last 6 months or so.

suthercd · Jun 17, 2003, 11:14 PM

None with an install I haven't been messing with. 10.2.5 had some developer releases before final that were a nightmare.

Some 3rd party apps have caused problems, and there were some apps who early on had prblems with dual processors, but staying away from the bleeding edge stuff leaves my daily system rock solid.

Craig

Mac007 · Jun 17, 2003, 11:32 PM

You forgot all those versions before 10.2! That means this poll is not accurate. I've only had two kernal panics and both were before 10.1.

Gul Banana · Jun 18, 2003, 01:07 AM

I've never had a "kernal panic", and never had a kernel panic under 10.2.

Kenneth · Jun 18, 2003, 05:20 AM

Originally posted by Gul Banana:
I've never had a "kernal panic", and never had a kernel panic under 10.2.

Second that...

iNeusch · Jun 18, 2003, 05:28 AM

Got one yesterday, first with 10.2.6

[APi]TheMan · Jun 18, 2003, 10:29 AM

Originally posted by Angus_D:
And yet again, there is no answer for "I can't remember the last time I got a panic".

Good call. I honestly can't remember the last time I had a kernel panic.

I'm running a Pismo 900mhz (Powerlogix upgrade) on MacOS X 10.2.6. I'm lucky I guess.

Drakino · Jun 18, 2003, 11:31 AM

Kernel Panic Log:

Tue Dec 10 14:46:04 2002 - 10.2.2 - Entourage did it
Tue Dec 10 15:29:24 2002 - 10.2.2 - And again
Tue Dec 10 16:21:16 2002 - 10.2.2 - And again
Fri Apr 25 11:34:37 2003 - 10.2.5 - Samba related crash
Mon Apr 28 15:27:24 2003 - 10.2.5 - Samba related crash
Mon May 5 08:46:54 2003 - 10.2.5 - Samba related crash, ugly text spew
Thu Jun 5 14:00:10 2003 - 10.2.6 - Samba related crash

I try to avoid connecting to Windows shares ever since it became dangerous to do so for me in 10.2.5. It's random when the KP happens, but for the Samba ones, I always see smbfs as the reason.

G4 Cube, fresh install of 10.2, upgraded to 10.2.2, then every version after.

eyadams · Jun 18, 2003, 12:04 PM

Since 10.1 came out, I've had exactly one KP that I couldn't trace to bad hardware. That one was with 10.2.6, and was caused by a chain of Unix command-line tools and mldonkey.

This on a Beige G3 with 320 meg of ram, an ATI 128 card, Belkin USB card, OWC G3/500, and half a dozen preripherals hanging off the USB bus.

spaced · Jun 18, 2003, 02:41 PM

I haven't had a kernel panic since Safari came out and I stopped using IE.

sushiism · Jun 18, 2003, 02:52 PM

never had one since i bought my mac, which is since jag came out in england

absmiths · Jun 18, 2003, 03:18 PM

Originally posted by kentuckyfried:
How often do you experience kernel panics? name your machine, OS, and applications you were running.

Actually, the question matches the options, it is presumably a way to find out which version of Jaguar gives the most kernel panics. A loaded question due to it's negative bias, but relevant anyway (esp since 10.1 has been gone for a while and has been discussed to death).

The last option, however, has no bearing on the poll whatever. More than likely, no matter what the user answers the last option will be true.

Now whether this poll will ever have the least impact on anyone is probably not hard to guess.

fisherKing · Jun 18, 2003, 03:48 PM

never had one either
(and running 10.2.6, on a pismo, and working on it 10-14 hours a day...)