[X Newbies] Crashing of text editor?

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 1:29 PM -0500 3/28/04, J wrote:
>>What version of the OS are you running?
>
>10.2.6
>
>>For that matter, what are the particulars of the machine in question?
>>
>>Have you, as part of your trouble-shooting:
>>    1) done a Safe Boot?
>>    2) run Repair Permissions from the boot disk?
>>    3) tried use of a "virgin" account?
>>    4) reset PRAM?
>
>Didn't have to go that far, I trashed prefs and it fixed.

If you're experiencing kernel panics often, you've only addressed a symptom.

If I were in your situation I would:
    1) Reboot the machine, holding down Cmd-Opt-P-R until the startup 
chime has sounded at least three times. This would reset the PRAM.
    2) Upon releasing the above keys, I'd hold down the shift key as 
the machine reboots once more. This initiates a Safe Boot and 
includes a disk check & repair behind the scenes. At this step, it 
will probably take a long time before the welcome screen appears. 
When it does, the text "Safe Boot" should be displayed in the message 
area.
    3) Once the machine finally boots, I'd open the Disk Utility 
application (in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder). 
I would select the boot disk and do the Repair Permissions.
    4) I would then restart the machine and observe over time whether 
the problems are still occurrent.

I would also consider investing in the current Disk Warrior as 
perhaps the only indispensable tool that's not shipped with current 
Macs.
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