"Mac go oops!"

[giza]

After owning Macs for 2.5 years, I finally got my first ever kernel panic earlier tonight. Wow.

Apparently the removable mass storage driver in IOKit managed to take down the system when I removed my USB stick. (I know this, because the system was nice enough to let me look at the traceback after restarting it. It even resolved all of the symbols!) Since I've done that dozens of times before without incident, and was unable to reproduce it after the restart, I'm guessing that it was some obscure bug.

Not too bad considering that this is across two different major OS releases on two different pieces of hardware. I'm surprised that I didn't find anything like this happening sooner.

Oh well, that sucked. I think I'll go to bed now.

Comments

[kellic.livejournal.com]

You're lucky. I originally was getting one ever 1.5 weeks. Since Apple replaced my system its down to about 1 per month or so.

[yappyfox.livejournal.com]

least it's not hourly as with windows :>

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

Amazing...a Mac crash that is software based, rather than bad hardware. MacOS is very stable. Were you able to fix this from happening in future?

[giza.livejournal.com]

I was unable to reproduce the problem.