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  • Re: OS X required restart message

    From seebs@seebs@plethora.net (Seebs) to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, July 03, 2003 07:25:15
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <9d04393c.0306300959.30c33c76@posting.google.com>,
    Gene D. <gene1930@mac.com> wrote:
    I am running OS X on an iBook and recently have received a screen
    while using Safari that said:
    "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the PowerButton for
    several seconds or press the Restart Button. This message is in 4
    languages and you have to restart.
    This has happened twice recently and I don't have a clue as to what
    causes this. Can anyone help.

    That's a kernel panic. Unfortunately, there's no good way to get the
    "real" error message out of the Mac anymore - in theory, it should be logged
    in the crash log, but in practice, I never got good logs out of 'em.

    When my Mac did this, it needed a new processor module.

    -s
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