Dock being unresponsive along with Command/Tab

[goodcow]

Twice so far today, my dock just died. I can't click on anything in it, Activity Monitor's CPU history dock icon doesn't animate, and command/tab doesn't work at all.

However nothing in Activity Monitor says not responding.

To fix it, I had to reboot twice, and then after that, I got a kernel panic:

Wed Oct 8 07:23:48 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x00193077): "pmap_flush_tlbs() timeout: " "cpu(s) failing to respond to interrupts, pmap=0x536500 cpus_to_respond=0x1"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.7.58/osfmk/i386/pmap.c:4580
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x5536b228 : 0x12b0fa (0x459234 0x5536b25c 0x133243 0x0)
0x5536b278 : 0x193077 (0x45f3a4 0x536500 0x1 0x0)
0x5536b2e8 : 0x19420b (0x536500 0x4fe73000 0x0 0x162a55)
0x5536b388 : 0x17406f (0x39697 0x0 0x7000 0x0)
0x5536b428 : 0x169e3a (0xb9397a8 0x0 0x0 0xf000)
0x5536b548 : 0x16a437 (0x4fe82000 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x5536b588 : 0x1824c7 (0x1b03d20 0x4fe73000 0x0 0x4fe82000)
0x5536b5e8 : 0x42d220 (0x1b03d20 0x4fe73000 0x0 0xf000)
0x5536b648 : 0x42d284 (0xb9aba80 0x1b03f78 0xbad2840 0x0)
0x5536b668 : 0x42d375 (0xbad2840 0x0 0x431e8000 0x0)
0x5536b688 : 0x42d34c (0xbad2840 0x0 0x2 0x0)
0x5536b6a8 : 0x3eb7f9 (0xbad2840 0x0 0x5536b728 0x5536bb50)
0x5536b6c8 : 0xfbb162 (0xbad2840 0xb9acc00 0x0 0x5536bb54)
0x5536b728 : 0xfbb657 (0x46ad2000 0xb9acc00 0x4fe31080 0x22b37080)
0x5536b788 : 0xfbba91 (0x46ad2000 0xb9acc00 0x5536bb54 0x5536bb58)
0x5536b7e8 : 0xfbbe86 (0x46ad2000 0x5536baac 0x5536ba5c 0x5536bb54)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(5.3.0)@0xf4b000->0xfdefff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(5.3.0)@0xb14000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.5.2)@0xb06000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4.1)@0x631000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5.2)@0xaea000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer

Mac OS version:
9F33

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep 3 11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)

Any ideas what's going on? It seems to be working fine for the moment.

Thanks.

 

[richard.mac]

the useful info for a Kernel Panic is after "Backtrace continues…". the only thing i can see is a bad graphics card?

is your MacBook Pro under warranty? maybe you should get it checked?