[X4U] Quad G5's with weird panic-like lockup

[Rick Smykla]

Coj,

My first inclination would be to test the memory modules using the  
Apple Hardware Test disc, or with a utility like rember. Once you've  
identified known good modules, try them in the others. HTH.

Rick

On Jul 18, 2006, at 2:20 AM, Brett Conlon wrote:

>
> Hiya,
>
> I've just rolled out 3 Quad G5's (10.4.7) and 2 of them have  
> displayed a very strange kernel panic-like lockup.
>
> One user was working in Photoshop and in the top left of the screen  
> (over the top of her Photoshop image & menus) machine code appeared  
> for about 20 lines stating:
>
> System failure <blah blah numbers > (Corrupt skip list)
> <blah blah>
> <and so forth>
> Exception state (<numbers>)
> <blah>
> Backtrace:
> <blah numbers>
> backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: <numbers>
> <and so on to the bottom>
> Waiting for remote debugger connection.
>
> The other designer who had this same lockup had in her top line  
> (Debugging Trap)
>
>

> Any thoughts/recommendations?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Coj