kernel panics upon waking

[plinkoman]

i'm having a problem where whenever i put my powerbook to sleep while dashboard is up, i get a kernel panic when i wake it up. sometimes i don't even have dashboard up, but when i wake up, i see it there, and sure enough, i get a kernel panic.

anyone know what could be causing this?

 

[mklos]

Try taking some of the add ons out and see if it goes away. These are things like the extra RAM, or sound card you added.

 

[plinkoman]

Try taking some of the add ons out and see if it goes away. These are things like the extra RAM, or sound card you added.

sound card? i didn't add any sound card, your probably looking at my pc specs.

if i had bad ram, why would it only do it when dashboard was open?
in any case, i'll try it with just the stock ram, but i didn't go cheap on ram, i bought this straight from crucial.

edit: i removed all my ram and put the original 512 back, and it still does this. i also disconnected everything from the powerbook except power (hard drives, iPod, keyboard+mouse, midi keyboard etc...), to what is basically factory settings, and it still does this.

any other suggestions?

 

[IJ Reilly]

Problems like these are nearly always hardware-related. How long have you owned this PowerBook?

 

[mad jew]

What apps are you running at the time? In particular, are you running any file sharing apps?

 

[plinkoman]

Problems like these are nearly always hardware-related. How long have you owned this PowerBook?

4 months. I ordered it about a week after they were announced.

What apps are you running at the time? In particular, are you running any file sharing apps?

in all the tests i just ran, i was running nothing. in some situations i probably had about a dozen different apps open (no filesharing ), so it seems what apps or how many of them has no bearing on this.

what i don't get is what difference it makes being in dashboard or not; as far as i know, that shouldn't make any difference, but it happens every time dashboard is open, without fail, and if dashboard is not open, it works just fine.

i suppose i should call apple about this tomorrow...

 

[mad jew]

Have you tried removing your Dashboard preference files? Maybe drag com.apple.dashboard.plist and com.apple.dashboard.client.plist to the Desktop and restart.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Have you tried removing your Dashboard preference files? Maybe drag com.apple.dashboard.plist and com.apple.dashboard.client.plist to the Desktop and restart.

Worth trying I guess, but I don't think it will help, given that the problem also seems to occur without Dashboard running. Am I right?

After so many (or even one) kernel panic you really should run fsck to repair any disk directory damage that might have occurred.

Still think it's hardware.

 

[plinkoman]

Have you tried removing your Dashboard preference files? Maybe drag com.apple.dashboard.plist and com.apple.dashboard.client.plist to the Desktop and restart.

actually, just as i was about to do that, you go me thinking that that would reset my widgets, and i remembered i had a widget called ministat (showed temp, ram usaged etc...), so just for the hell of it, i removed that widget, tried it, and sure enough, no kernel panic!

man, i was scared i might have a hardware problem for a few minutes there...

thanks.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Never heard of a widget causing a kernel panic before. Anybody else?

 

[plinkoman]

Never heard of a widget causing a kernel panic before. Anybody else?

neither have I, but it looks like that was what was causing it. i guess for whatever reason it can't handle accessing that information while waking up. seems strange to me, but i can't argue with the evidence.

as for it doing that when dashboard wasn't up, maybe i didn't word it right before, what i meant was dashboard wasn't up when it went to sleep, but it was up when i woke it up, so i never actually got a kernel panic without dashboard open, i just don't know how dashboard opened sometimes.

 

[mklos]

Sorry, I misread your problem. Glad you got it working though. I've also never heard a widget causing a kernel panic, but as we all found out, its possible.