Mac reboots
2006-02-25 20:05:33.235818+01 by Dan Lyke 4 comments
Whoohoo! Two forced remove-the-battery reboots on the Mac this morning! And I wasn't even running Maya. I must be doing something... right?
2006-02-25 20:05:33.235818+01 by Dan Lyke 4 comments
Whoohoo! Two forced remove-the-battery reboots on the Mac this morning! And I wasn't even running Maya. I must be doing something... right?
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comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):
#Comment Re: made: 2006-02-26 04:10:15.191214+01 by: markd
Sounds like it might be hardware problems. I'd run a memory tester to see if the RAM went south.
#Comment Re: made: 2006-02-26 05:31:38.388393+01 by: Dan Lyke
Hasn't gone down since. I think it was an error with recursion and a tree control...
#Comment Re: made: 2006-02-26 14:35:25.498548+01 by: DaveP
Recursion is dangerous on Mac OS X. Lots of Core Foundation has poor error-handling, coming from the "malloc() will never fail" school of Unix programming we inherited from the NeXTies.
You're the second guy in a week I heard complaining about crashes while recursing, if that's any consolation.
#Comment Re: made: 2006-02-26 19:45:51.723447+01 by: baylink
A Unix box? locking up because of *anything a user program is capable of doing*?
Nuh huh.
I've had 4 lockup/panics in *20 years* that weren't attributable to bad hardware: 3 of them were device driver problems; I don't think we ever figured out the fourth one.
I had a 386/25 running Xenix 2.3.2 run away to a load average of *26* (I am not making this up); I recovered it to a clean shutdown, though logging in took almost 5 minutes.
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