Hard lock after closing bluetooth w/o authenticating

[merryxmas]

Hey I have a brand new 24" imac

10.5.4
2.8g C2D
2g RAM

and I was trying to sync my KRZR motorola phone with my imac. Now I had just upgraded to this year's imac and my old imac I never had to put in a bluetooth pin on my phone to connect to my computer before. I never set one up so it came as a surprise to me when it popped up and I didn't know what my PIN for my imac was. Since I didn't know I said to stop retrying on my imac to connect to my phone. When it did that everything froze and a dark black drape effect from top to bottom happened. Then I got that dreaded multilanguage popup box that says you need to restart your computer manually. So basically by not connecting or authenticating it hard locked my computer. I don't know if I'm going to even try syncing my phone to my computer now as I don't want that to happen again.

Kernel Panic? I don't really know what to make of this report. Here it is in case any of you can tell exactly what went wrong by looking at it:




Thu Dec 11 08:28:53 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A8CD4): Kernel trap at 0x00000000, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000000, CR3: 0x0143e000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x066b3400, EBX: 0x066c8000, ECX: 0x00a016c2, EDX: 0x066c8000
CR2: 0x00000000, EBP: 0x2edf3c58, ESI: 0x00a12b78, EDI: 0x0543cc00
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x00000000, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x06a80010
Error code: 0x00000010

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2edf3a58 : 0x12b0fa (0x4592a4 0x2edf3a8c 0x133243 0x0)
0x2edf3aa8 : 0x1a8cd4 (0x46280c 0x0 0xe 0x461fbc)
0x2edf3b88 : 0x19ede5 (0x2edf3ba0 0x3 0x2edf3c58 0x0)
0x2edf3b98 : 0x0 (0xe 0x5640048 0x5640010 0x10)
0x2edf3c58 : 0xa016e1 (0x66c8000 0xa12b78 0x2edf3c88 0x3eb869)
0x2edf3c78 : 0x9fb770 (0x66c8000 0xe00002cd 0x0 0x9fb6aa)
0x2edf3ca8 : 0x9fbb9a (0x543cc00 0x6 0x2edf3cd8 0x6)
0x2edf3cc8 : 0xa003a8 (0x543cc00 0x6abd88b 0x0 0x13e7f4)
0x2edf3d38 : 0x9fe770 (0x564fe00 0x4 0x6abd888 0x404042)
0x2edf3d68 : 0x9f43b9 (0x564fe00 0x4 0x6abd888 0x3eb770)
0x2edf3da8 : 0x9f442d (0x6882200 0x4 0x6abd888 0x6abd884)
0x2edf3dc8 : 0x9f0ca8 (0x6882200 0x6abd884 0x4 0x1)
0x2edf3df8 : 0x9f21bf (0x68d6400 0x41 0x4 0x6abd884)
0x2edf3e38 : 0x9e9ab0 (0x68d6400 0x47c5080 0xc 0x15d)
0x2edf3e78 : 0x9e1507 (0x4b44e00 0x47c5080 0xc 0xc)
0x2edf3ea8 : 0x9e14a0 (0x4b44e00 0x47c5080 0xc 0xd9)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily(2.1f17)@0x9dc000->0xa12fff

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
9E27

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:30:53 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: iMac8,1 (Mac-F227BEC8)

 

[misterredman]

It's normal to get asked of a pin when pairing two devices with bluetooth. Usually in the case of a computer and a phone you will get the PIN showed on the computer: all you have to do is to copy that in the phone. That will avoid someone nearby to pair with your devices. Try pairing from your imac and not from your phone.

About the kernel panic, it seems in fact to have something to do with the bluetooth interface. It may be a one time thing so don't be afraid of trying again. Should the kernel panic come regularly then you may want to investigate further.

Anyway I suggest you update the OS to the last version, maybe they corrected something regarding bluetooth too.