I have noticed it with 10.2.4 also. Same general thing. Once, prevented a re-start. Luckily, I clone my drive to other partitions or physical drives, so all is not lost (as I type this, I am re-cloning with Carbon Copy Cloner to another partition on my 80G internal). I found that the only thing that would rescue me once was to start up in OS 9 and rebuild the directory with DiskWarrior. Can't wait for them (Alsoft?) to come out with an OS X native version of DW. --Steve At 3:40 PM +0100 3/16/03, Evert Smit wrote: >Since upgrading to 10.2.4 I experience a lot of kernel paics, at least, >those events wher the screen slowly from top to bottom becomes darker and a >text in English, German, Japanese etcetera appears telling me I must >restart.