Varvas Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 My installation is working fine, but... random kernel panics occur. At first Parallels crashed my system - clean install helped! But now system crashes about 3-4 times a day... sometimes during screensaver, sometimes after some installation. Is there a way to track down these events what are causing this problem? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Is the crash a real kernel panic (where it says "panic") or one of those grey screens in multiple languages saying that you should press the power button? Do you then have difficulty rebooting like it takes several attempts? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-244136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varvas Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 Nop... it doesn't say "panic". It is this "nice" screen where I'm being suggested to restart my computer. (somehow I got the impression that this screen means kernel panic) This restart problem has occurred once or twice... usually reboot goes smoothly. Just upgraded to latest kernel (beta 8) and still the problem remains. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-248319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
meattattat Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 ARE YOU USING THE ONBOARD LAN WITH RTL1XXX DRIVER? as i said before, the driver cause panic... i use an intel pro100 now and no more panics... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-248376 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Nop... it doesn't say "panic". It is this "nice" screen where I'm being suggested to restart my computer.(somehow I got the impression that this screen means kernel panic) This restart problem has occurred once or twice... usually reboot goes smoothly. Just upgraded to latest kernel (beta 8) and still the problem remains. I had the mult-language crashes and freezes and difficulty rebooting with hard drive errors (that aren't real - no utility could find problems). I had to abandon the new kernel for now (see my signature). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-248397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varvas Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 yes! I'm using onboard LAN! I'll try to find an alternative! I don't think it's a HDD problem, cause I've tried two different drives now... first a ATA drive and now a SATA one... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-248428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 This problem occures evry rare and I can't really track it down in any case. I am running the kernel over long times, whatmeeans days an dnothing happens. It must be a very hardware specific issue you both encounter, maybe try to compare your both hardware and fidn something equal in your specs -> Currently I don't have anything sofar track down this issue, at least indicates of the origin needed. It really migth be anything, from broken kext to soem minor thing in kernel which causes your boxes to freeze. Even grapics card driver is possible since this seems to has somethign to do with screensaver. In a private talk with Rammjet I also guessed problems wie SATA but since you confirmed it's not.. iI am a bit clueless about this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-248472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 seems to has somethign to do with screensaver. In a private talk with Rammjet I also guessed problems wie SATA but since you confirmed it's not.. iI am a bit clueless about this. Crashes and freezes occurred with disabled screensaver and I have SATA on the motherboard but I don't have any SATA hard drives installed. And the crashes and freezes occurred in 3 different fresh installations of 10.4.8 using different methods to get there. Running in 10.4.8 with old kernel has been rock solid for a couple of weeks now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-248493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 This is really strange since I can't imagine any reason for the crashes. We can "comment out" some possible reasons..hmm. Can both of you post a kext stat of a 10.4.8 system? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-248599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Can both of you post a kext stat of a 10.4.8 system? Booted last night on first attempt - no crashes or freezes for an hour of running. Took two boot attempts today using -f -v. Made kextstat file. Rebooted and thought of something else. Took four failed boots with -v -f and 2 failed boots with -s before successfully booting with -v -f -s. Kept getting ATA blocked errors. Ran fsck and Disk Utility - no problems reported as usual. (Note, besides the crashes and freezes, the boot problems happened on all three of my new 10.4.8 installs) File contains: kextstat - dmesg - systctl (looks wierd) - ioreg I believe this is beta7 because that was when I went back to old 10.4.8 with old kernel. kextstat.txt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-248653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varvas Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 still haven't found another NIC for testing, but here's my kextstat (and dmesg and ioreg) results. kext.rtf Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-249091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varvas Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 ok! got myself a new MB (same 945G-DVI) and it seems that this crahing problem has dissapeared. System is running now smoothly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-258618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsmith Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 I was wondering if any progress had been made on this issue, I was having this problem through may of last year, when I upgraded from 1 to 3 gigs of ram, and it mysteriously went away. Now its back, and I'm not sure why. I recently re-installed the RealtekR1000 kext, but it worked all summer with it installed. I've tried a few hardware troubleshooting steps, but had no luck. Any thoughts? Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 GIGABYTE 945GM-S2 mb PCI firewire NVIDEA GFORCE 6200 LE "turbo cache" Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family PCI ethernet Realtek RTL8168/8111 onboard NIC Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34451-random-kernel-panic/#findComment-440516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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