Kernel Panic Cause

[auxplage]

Hey, I had my first kernel panic today!! I am acutally somewhat excited in an unhappy way. It only took 15 months for it to happen.

Well, anyways, I was wondering if you guys could help find the cause:

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Fri Sep 9 15:06:22 2005


panic(cpu 0): getnewvnode: vp @ 0x1e2c850 has non-null scmap.

Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00083498 0x0008397C 0x0001EDA4 0x000C0EE8 0x001D5DA0 0x001D59D0 0x001DBB94 0x001DC288
0x000BEC44 0x000BE68C 0x000CE188 0x000C6AEC 0x00246D84 0x000941C0 0x00000000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2500E280)
PC=0x9000EACC; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x0178B014; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x901EDDD8; R1=0xBFFFE510; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC


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Thank you in advance.

James

 

[yenko]

Hey, I had my first kernel panic today!! I am acutally somewhat excited in an unhappy way. It only took 15 months for it to happen.

Well, anyways, I was wondering if you guys could help find the cause:

Thank you in advance.

James

What was the last thing you did before the "KP" ??

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Which applications were running?

Have you (recently) installed any additional hardware, like RAM, hard drive or even 3rd party keyboard and mouse?

 

[admford]

A good way to check what caused your kernel panic is simply to look at the computer's log.

Just go under "System Profiler" and on the left side, under the "Software" voice, you'll see "Logs".

it should be under the file "system.log". you can look through it and try to find the last time you booted up, because just before it you'll see the last application/driver or whatever running. Usually it's the one that caused the kernel panic.

 

[auxplage]

Well, I installed this stupid RIO thing to make the player compatible with iTunes. This 128mb MP3 player is like 2 years old and was made for iTunes 2.0. I have iTunes 5.0 and was dumb enough to put this RIO crap on my computer all for my girlfriend who wanted some songs off my computer on her player.

Anyways, I am pretty sure that the above was the cause. I had iTunes running and was trying to burn a CD. It was really weird. It came out of nowhere.

I tried to get the RIO stuff off of my computer. I do not think that I succeeded. Thank you though. I was just trying to find the EXACT cause. I had a general idea.

 

[jim.]

Bad hardware, or bad drivers, are typically the cause of KP's. The backtrace you wrote to us doesn't say anything except for Hex addresses in memory, so we can't diagnose what happened unless we have some form of electronic ESP. If you installed that "RIO" driver, and then experienced the KP's then that is definitely the cause. I bet that the extension was not compatible with the 10.4 kernel.

Does it mention anything like blah.ext or blah.kext (replacing 'blah' with anything) in the log before what you gave us? That would give a clue as to what is happening.

Jim

 

[auxplage]

This is the whole panic.log:

Wed Jul 14 15:01:53 2004




Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x400 - Inst access DAR=0x0000000000309E98 PC=0x0000000000000000
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x21AAE780)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x40009030; DAR=0x00309E98; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0003559C; R1=0x077F3E10; XCP=0x00000010 (0x400 - Inst access)
Backtrace:
0x0003559C 0x0003547C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x21AAE780)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x14256780)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.4.0:
Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.7.obj~7/RELEASE_PPC


panic(cpu 0): 0x400 - Inst access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x0008391C 0x00083E00 0x0001EDA4 0x00090E60 0x0009426C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x21AAE780)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x40009030; DAR=0x00309E98; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0003559C; R1=0x077F3E10; XCP=0x00000010 (0x400 - Inst access)
Backtrace:
0x0003559C 0x0003547C
Exception state (sv=0x14256780)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.4.0:
Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.7.obj~7/RELEASE_PPC



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Fri Sep 9 15:06:22 2005


panic(cpu 0): getnewvnode: vp @ 0x1e2c850 has non-null scmap.

Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00083498 0x0008397C 0x0001EDA4 0x000C0EE8 0x001D5DA0 0x001D59D0 0x001DBB94 0x001DC288
0x000BEC44 0x000BE68C 0x000CE188 0x000C6AEC 0x00246D84 0x000941C0 0x00000000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2500E280)
PC=0x9000EACC; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x0178B014; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x901EDDD8; R1=0xBFFFE510; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC


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If there is anything else that you guys need let me know.

Thanks again.

James