How do I know if I have/had one? In my activity monitor there is something called a kernel task. Is that a kernel panic?
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What is a kernel panic?
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No. Completely different. A kernel panic is the Mac equivalent to the Blue Screen of Death in Windows.
I don't know if there is a guide that encompasses all of them, but usually googling the name of the process tells you a lot.
Thanks for posting that..but what are the kernel tasks and such in the activity monitor. Are they stopping potential problems? Or problems waiting to happen? Should kernel be associated with bad?
in addition to the activity monitor, does anyone decipher console.logs? I've been having mad kernel panics, freezes, and random "self-inflicted power downs" out of the blue for about a month now.
It always, always say the same thing upon reboot:
Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
2008-03-24 23:09:02 -0400
2008-03-24 23:09:03.500 HPEventHandler[94]: DebugAssert: Third Party Client: ((__null) != m_lock && 0 == (*__error())) Can't create semaphore lock [/Volumes/Development/Projects/HP/Core/mac-aio/core/HPEventHandler/Sources/HPTMNotificationManager.cpp:59]
2008-03-24 23:09:04.908 SystemUIServer[84] lang is:en
Mar 24 23:09:11 matt-ferns-power-mac-g4 VersionCueCS2Daemon[151]: warning: VersionCueCS2Daemon not started by mach_init process (parent pid: 1)
Mar 24 23:09:12 matt-ferns-power-mac-g4 configd[40]: DHCP en1: RELEASE transmit failed
2008-03-24 23:09:26.135 pbs[78] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Resources/Languages/en
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Can't create a semaphore lock?
Why always the mention of VersionCueCS2daemon?
Why the last couple lines...always the same thing?
Man, any insight would be appreciated.
Dual 1Ghz PowerPC G4
2Mb L3 Cahse per processor
512 MB SDRAM
It always, always say the same thing upon reboot:
Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
2008-03-24 23:09:02 -0400
2008-03-24 23:09:03.500 HPEventHandler[94]: DebugAssert: Third Party Client: ((__null) != m_lock && 0 == (*__error())) Can't create semaphore lock [/Volumes/Development/Projects/HP/Core/mac-aio/core/HPEventHandler/Sources/HPTMNotificationManager.cpp:59]
2008-03-24 23:09:04.908 SystemUIServer[84] lang is:en
Mar 24 23:09:11 matt-ferns-power-mac-g4 VersionCueCS2Daemon[151]: warning: VersionCueCS2Daemon not started by mach_init process (parent pid: 1)
Mar 24 23:09:12 matt-ferns-power-mac-g4 configd[40]: DHCP en1: RELEASE transmit failed
2008-03-24 23:09:26.135 pbs[78] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Resources/Languages/en
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Can't create a semaphore lock?
Why always the mention of VersionCueCS2daemon?
Why the last couple lines...always the same thing?
Man, any insight would be appreciated.
Dual 1Ghz PowerPC G4
2Mb L3 Cahse per processor
512 MB SDRAM