So far my 10.2 adventure has gone very badly. 10.1 was quite stable on my G4-800-DP, such that I had perhaps 4 or 5 crashes is a year or so. Now I am crashing daily or more... and it's the strangest mode of failure I have ever seen.
First, some random thing stops responding. ICQ did it to me twice, last night a file transfer did it. The rest of the OS seems fine. The little colored wheel pops up. I can switch to other apps fine, and even use them. I browsed around in Mozilla for a while to see if I could, but as soon as I was going to log into this site, Mozilla froze too. Colored wheel. I run a rootless X server (XFree86), and it worked fine. But then I went to list a directory to see if I could, and now the XFree is frozen (though it did list some of the files). Then after a while the doc died. Sometimes the doc will mangify, but freeze when I try to use it.
Edit: More details I just thought of. I can freeze a given app by clicking on the menu bar. Hmmm. Apps frozen in this way can still be dragged around, though not used. Right now I have a single working app, SMB Browse. I can drag it all over, and even do stuff... oh never mind it just froze while I was away. Time to reboot the machine...
So apparently something dies and a part of the OS is then dead. Everything is fine till it touches whatever is dead. The problem builds from there.
I was wondering if anyone else has seen this sort of thing. (Posting from the ol trusty Linux box BTW.)
First, some random thing stops responding. ICQ did it to me twice, last night a file transfer did it. The rest of the OS seems fine. The little colored wheel pops up. I can switch to other apps fine, and even use them. I browsed around in Mozilla for a while to see if I could, but as soon as I was going to log into this site, Mozilla froze too. Colored wheel. I run a rootless X server (XFree86), and it worked fine. But then I went to list a directory to see if I could, and now the XFree is frozen (though it did list some of the files). Then after a while the doc died. Sometimes the doc will mangify, but freeze when I try to use it.
Edit: More details I just thought of. I can freeze a given app by clicking on the menu bar. Hmmm. Apps frozen in this way can still be dragged around, though not used. Right now I have a single working app, SMB Browse. I can drag it all over, and even do stuff... oh never mind it just froze while I was away. Time to reboot the machine...
So apparently something dies and a part of the OS is then dead. Everything is fine till it touches whatever is dead. The problem builds from there.
I was wondering if anyone else has seen this sort of thing. (Posting from the ol trusty Linux box BTW.)