[P1] New kind of crash

Kim Gammelg å rd kim.gammelgaard at get2net.dk
Sun Mar 23 03:48:06 PST 2003


Just a guess, do you have less than say a Gigabyte of harddisk space left?
Then it might well be the virtual memory eating it up.

When you reboot after that, OSX will do some sort of disk repair. If you
reboot normally, it shouldn't take that long.

Cheers,

Kim


On 23/03/03 8:39, "David Crump" <davecrump at mac.com> wrote:

> I installed Jaguar on my clamshell iBook about 2 months ago.  I am
> currently at 10.2.4.   I've been disappointed to have it crash much
> more frequently.  In fact, I don't remember OS X.1.x crashing for me
> ever!  Now I will get a message appearing on my screen saying that I
> have to restart my computer.  I've never had this message before, and
> now I'm getting it every couple of days.  It usually happens when I
> have iTunes running.  The music starts to skip, and this message is on
> the screen.  I have to hit Ctrl-Cmd-power to reboot.  What a pain (also
> because Jaguar boots sooooo slowly).
> Anyone experiencing this?  Could it be from my firewire hard drive,
> which is where all my music is stored?  It sure is funny, because I'm
> not doing anything different from before the upgrade, and there were no
> problems before.
> 
> Dave.



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