Kernel Panic: A panic server was not specified

After exactly 4 years of reliable service my good ol' PM G4/400 suddenly started to panic frequently.

Things I changed?

With the coming of Garageband I digged out my Steinberg Midi To UBS Box, downloaded the latest driver and played happily along. That's about all the changes to the system since the upgrade to 10.3.2.

What I did now?

Disconnected the Midi-UBS Box, removed the driver from the startup-items, installed 10.3.3 and tried to repair disk permissions. It couldn't, because there was the BaseSystem package missing in the Receipts folder. Don't know whether this already the case before I installed 10.3.3.

Anyway, since yesterday there was a panic any more. But it could come again any time.

What I'm actually asking for?

The kernel panic says:

Entering system dump routine
A panic server was not specified in the boot-args, terminating kernel
core dump.

I would really like to have the core dump. Not so sure whether I would really be able to learn something from it but I think it's better to have than not.

So if anyone know where and how to change the boot-args to specify the panic server, I'd be happy.

Martin

bousozoku said:

If you haven't recently run Drive 10, Tech Tool Pro 4, or DiskWarrior on your drive, you should.

While I cannot offer an explanation for the behaviour, my feeling is that you're having a problem with data loss due to drive structure problems. Running one of those disk repair applications has a good possibility of helping. While Apple's Disk Utility and the UNIX utility fsck help, they don't handle file problems.

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Thanks for the hint.

I was thinking of that as well. The disk Panther is running on now is also 4 years old. On the weekend I'll move everything to an newer disk just to be sure.

Martin