kernel panics, is it just me?

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kernel panics, is it just me?

Post by jesse » Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:23 pm

i installed the new zevo monday morning, and have probably had 4-6 kernel panics since. i'm not getting any crash reports so i don't have any evidence that zevo is related, but previously i would only see a kernel panic once or twice a month when using the may 9 beta from ten's complement. my pool is my home directory, and some new behavior has popped up: firefox and chrome take a long time to open, close to a minute, and most of my terminal windows are quick to come up but unresponsive for tens of seconds and draw the circular progress bars in them while they are unresponsive. i had /never/ seen a terminal window do that before installing the latest zevo.

i am unable to produce a kernel panic on my laptop, so for now i have reverted to the ten's complement beta on my desktop. i'm happy to go back to the latest zevo if someone can help me pin down what's causing the panics, but for whatever reason it's alpha quality software on my desktop and i have to pretend to be sort of productive here at work. :)

just curious if anyone else is having trouble, or has any ideas about why i'm not getting any crash reports. thanks!
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.panic files

Post by grahamperrin » Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:36 pm

Please, can you post here the content of the most recent kernel .panic file? You'll probably find those files at:

/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports

Hint: use the full editor, and paste as code.

Thanks
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Re: kernel panics, is it just me?

Post by jesse » Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:26 pm

crackmonkey:~ % ls -la /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports
total 0
0 drwxr-x--- 2 root admin 68 Jun 20 13:17 ./
0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 238 Aug 28 11:54 ../

i'm trying my luck with the previous beta.
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absence of kernel .panic files

Post by grahamperrin » Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:49 am

Absence of kernel .panic files

It's rare, but not unknown, to find no .panic file following a kernel panic.

Please: did you use Lion or Mountain Lion?

If so, did you choose Recovery OS following the panic?
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Re: kernel panics, is it just me?

Post by jesse » Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:01 am

i'm using mountain lion 10.8.1, and did not do OS recovery.

if you think my OS install is screwed up, i can start from scratch. should be able to do it sometime this week.
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clarification

Post by grahamperrin » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:26 pm

Maybe a misunderstanding, sorry.

Recovery OS is the operating system that starts if you key Command-R immediately after the startup chime. Just a guess, you might have started Recovery OS to use Disk Utility with an option to repair the Mountain Lion startup volume.

If Recovery OS (not OS X) is chosen following a kernel panic, starting in that way will lose the information on which a .panic file is based.

I don't imagine a need to reinstall your operating system. Just hoping to explain the absence of .panic files …
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Re: kernel panics, is it just me?

Post by jesse » Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:49 pm

if i'm not generating panic files, i think my setup is useless for generating data, even if there's a solvable zevo problem buried somewhere in there.

i'll reinstall and start from scratch with zevo (including recreating my pool, instead of inheriting the one from the previous beta). i hope that will either narrow down the cause of the panics or make them go away entirely. shot in the dark, but i don't have a better idea.
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