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' You must restart your computer ' after updating to 10.7.2

SXR

SXR

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Nov 20, 2007
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So after I updated to 10.7.2 my iMac is doing some weird stuff. It happend to me twice now. I was just watching a podcast in iTunes and suddenly it freezes, the screen gets a bit darker and it's telling me ( in several languages ) that I need to restart my computer by holding down the power button. I can't dismiss this message or anything! Once my machine is back up , it allows me to report something to apple because my system shut down because of an ' error ' .

Any ideas?
 
Oh no..... that sucks

Would I be able to just make a time machine backup, reinstall Lion and restore the time machine backup?
 
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Can you post the contents of some of the panic logs?

It's highly unlikely that reinstalling the software is going to fix your problem unless you've explicitly broken the OS by doing something you shouldn't be doing. It's far more likely that you have a hardware problem causing these kernel panics.
 
Detrius said:
Can you post the contents of some of the panic logs?

It's highly unlikely that reinstalling the software is going to fix your problem unless you've explicitly broken the OS by doing something you shouldn't be doing. It's far more likely that you have a hardware problem causing these kernel panics.
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Thanks for your reply. Where can i find the panic logs? I didnt do anything that i wasnt supposed to do on my iMac
 
SXR said:
Thanks for your reply. Where can i find the panic logs? I didnt do anything that i wasnt supposed to do on my iMac
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KP logs are stored at:

/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports

How you get there is open a Finder Window, hold down the Option key and click the Go Menu and you will see Library, click that and navigate to the diagnostic report.

However it's possible you just need to restart in Safe Mode to clear a corrupt cache. Please look over:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1392
 
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