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

[Daly Jessup]

At 5:20 PM +1100 7/18/06, 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)
>
>Anyway, I built one G5 completely (OS/Apps/settings etc), created an 
>image then restored it to the other 2 Macs. The original build seems 
>to be giving me more grief than the other restored Macs.
>
>Seeing that Photoshop seems to be a constant in the errors (usually 
>the active app when the panic hits or PS has been frequently 
>unexpectedly quitting) I've tried downgrading one user from CS2 to 
>CS1 Photoshop.
>
>Both of these Macs have also displayed the kernel panic restart 
>screen a few times, usually when trying to reboot.
>
>Any thoughts/recommendations?

See if the material on this page rings a bell for your situation:
<http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332657.html>

Daly