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

[Brett Conlon]

Yes, you could be right... I considered RAM but I kinda put it asside coz 
there are 2 Macs with similar issues which lead me more to believe the OS 
& apps install was to blame.

I've followed the advice in the Adobe link, that Daly kindly put forward, 
on one Mac and I'll see if that makes a difference. She had a kernel panic 
this morning so if she has another after I removed the CS2 "Legal" folders 
then the issue is elsewhere.

Thanks also, Philip, for your recommendation of running memtest in single 
user mode. Great idea!

I'll email the group if I find out what it is.

Many thanks...

Coj




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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