does 'clear' command crash OS X?

[success2be]

What should I do to diagnose an OS X crash requiring reboot?

 

I had one of those crashes telling me to power down my machine. My machine had been running fine for a week.

[success2be]

Here is what I got from my Crash Reporter log. Does this mean using the command "clear" in terminal will crash OS X?

 

Date/Time: 2007-03-30 20:32:24.319 -0700

OS Version: 10.4.8 (Build 8L2127)

Report Version: 4

 

Command: clear

Path: /usr/bin/clear

Parent: bash [353]

 

Version: ??? (???)

 

PID: 408

Thread: Unknown

 

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0xffe00600

 

Unable to generate backtrace for 64 bit task.

 

Unknown thread crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):

rax: 0x00007fffffe00600 rbx: 0x0000000000000707 rcx: 0x00007fff5fc33a4a rdx: 0x0000000000000498

rdi: 0x00007fff5fc553a0 rsi: 0x0000000000000498 rbp: 0x00007fff5fbffbe0 rsp: 0x00007fff5fbffbd8

r8: 0x00007fff5fc01010 r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x00007fff5fc33a3e r11: 0x0000000000000246

r12: 0x0000000000000000 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x00007fff5fc00000

rip: 0x00007fffffe00600 rfl: 0x0000000000010246

Binary Images Description:

[sarahbau]

That looks like just clear itself crashed. I don't think it crashed your system. Instead of the crash log, you should look in /Library/Logs/panic.log

 

Well, I came across another thread, and it looks like clear crashing can cause a bus error that causes a kernel panic (can't tell for sure from the crash log though). Here's a workaround for it - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...09&hl=clear