[P1] 10.2.3 SUCKS! NOT!!!

[Russ Gorman]

I have a 600 mhz iBook running 10.2.3 and suffered from the logout 
kernal panic. Throwing away the
.GlobalPreferences.plist file just onced solved the problem for me 
without having to lock a new version or reset things each time I 
logout/logon.
Sorry I cleaned out my logs recently - if it happens again I will save 
the log and  send it to Liegh.
I found the solution in the Apple support discussion groups for iBooks.
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 08:29  AM, lbdesigns at earthlink.net 
wrote:

>
>> Anyway, there is a bug in the system that affects laptops.  It's a 
>> bug that causes a kernel panic when you log out.  From reading the 
>> posts on the apple discussion board, people seem to have narrowed it 
>> down to a problem with mouse settings in the .GlobalPreferences.plist 
>> file.  It seems that on certain hardware, mostly laptops, this file 
>> becomes corrupted and causes crashes.  The workaround was to delete 
>> this prefs file and lock the new one so that it couldn't be corrupted 
>> again.
>
> I have never heard of this... and I am on the iBook team. I will 
> investigate this, but I have never encountered this situation.
>
> What would really be helpful is to see the kernel panic (the backtrace 
> -- info in /Library/Logs/panic.log.) If you happened to backup that 
> file, please send it to me. The URL to the discussions would be 
> helpful as well.
>
> thanks,
> leigh
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