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04-07-2008, 11:16 AM
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iBook dying? Or maybe program issue?
My iBook is having a few issues. The other day as I clicked between eudora and firefox I got a black screen running continuous text. It was only stopped by removing the battery. On restart everything has been running fine for the last few days.
A couple of weeks ago a camera/image capture program stopped working. I re-installed and then had to re-set the program preferences and it now seems to be ok.
My HD is quite full and I have deleted quite a lot of stuff lately to free up space, but are these little issues just coincidence or is it a sign of something more... if I can survive until mid-late August, my husband can pick me up a new computer o-seas (a considerable saving on a new MBP as I can afford the 2.5GHz if purchased there vs 2.4GHz one here) so I really hope I can hold out until then
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04-07-2008, 11:25 AM
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Get yourself a new battery.
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04-07-2008, 11:54 AM
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Battery life is fine. Haven't experienced any probs with it. These problems have actually occurred when plugged in.
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07-07-2008, 05:23 PM
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Bump! Anyone else have thoughts on this?
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07-07-2008, 05:33 PM
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How much free space vs the size of the HD do you have left ? From what I can gather ,OSX likes a min of 5Gb free space or more - preferably 10%. Also how much Ram do you have in the iBook?
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07-07-2008, 05:34 PM
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Doesn't sound like anything too serious. How full is your HD at the moment?
iBooks did have major issues with logic boards and soldering coming loose over time but these tended to be seen in the screen breaking up and failure to boot.
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08-07-2008, 10:25 AM
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768 MB RAM and currently have 8G free (but I've deleted more stuff off it since I had the problems, so it was less than that at the time). I think I had about 4G free when I was having problems so hopefully that was why it got upset and it will be ok now.
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08-07-2008, 10:36 AM
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Well that should be enough free space for sure and more than enough memory to make it run OK so hopefully that was the issue.
You could always put in your original OS CD and run the hardware test too.
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08-07-2008, 01:51 PM
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I did run disk utility to verify disk and permissions at the time and that came up fine but without the OS cd. I updated to tiger some time ago on a family pack but I don't have the CD handy.
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17-07-2008, 09:12 AM
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re-start message, firefox issue?
Now I have another situation. Was surfing mactalk in firefox when suddenly got a message "You now need to re-start your computer. Hold down power key for few seconds or press re-start key". Message was in several languages, English, French, German and Japanese (I think, didn't look at the last one carefully). I couldn't do anything else so I followed the message. Once re-started, got same message again, so I pulled the battery and then re-started. So far now ok.
I would have thought this was some kind of virus, but it's a mac, right?
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17-07-2008, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by shelly79
Now I have another situation. Was surfing mactalk in firefox when suddenly got a message "You now need to re-start your computer. Hold down power key for few seconds or press re-start key". Message was in several languages, English, French, German and Japanese (I think, didn't look at the last one carefully). I couldn't do anything else so I followed the message. Once re-started, got same message again, so I pulled the battery and then re-started. So far now ok.
I would have thought this was some kind of virus, but it's a mac, right?
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This isn't a virus, this is a kernel panic.
What is a kernel panic? (Mac OS X)
Resolving Kernel Panics
Given the sort of things you've described, it's possible that the hard-drive on your iBook is starting to become problematic. It could be other things, but this is the issue I'd be acting on right now! Back-up your data! Do it today!
If I'm wrong, then nothing is lost except time and a few backup discs (or space on an external drive).
Go to Applications--> Utilities. Open up the Console application. Once it's open, click on "Show Log List" if it isn't already showing on the left of the window. Scroll down to the Crash reporter section in either your ~/Library/Logs or /Library/Logs and see if you can find the crash log for this kernel panic. If you find one (they can't always be written after a panic) then post it here and we'll all look at it to see if we can narrow down the issue.
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17-07-2008, 09:38 AM
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I also think the HD is dying. I had an old iBook and the HD was the first to fail.
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17-07-2008, 10:13 AM
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This isn't a virus, this is a kernel panic.
What is a kernel panic? (Mac OS X)
Resolving Kernel Panics
Go to Applications--> Utilities. Open up the Console application. Once it's open, click on "Show Log List" if it isn't already showing on the left of the window. Scroll down to the Crash reporter section in either your ~/Library/Logs or /Library/Logs and see if you can find the crash log for this kernel panic. If you find one (they can't always be written after a panic) then post it here and we'll all look at it to see if we can narrow down the issue. |
Yep, that's what I got. Found this in the system.log (nothing in the library/logs)
Jul 17 09:03:13 Shelly kernel[0]: HFS: /rsrc paths are deprecated (KeyAccessLib/rsrc)
Jul 17 09:03:13 Shelly kernel[0]: HFS: /rsrc paths are deprecated (KeyAccessLib/rsrc)
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Shelly kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : attempting to attach to all available ethernet interfaces.
Jul 17 09:03:17 Shelly kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : checking if we are already attached to interface: en1
Jul 17 09:03:17 Shelly kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : no, not yet attached to interface: en1
Jul 17 09:03:17 Shelly kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : interface: en1, filter attached.
Jul 17 09:03:17 Shelly kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : current MTU for en1 is 1500, saving it.
Jul 17 09:03:17 Shelly kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : checking if we are already attached to interface: en0
Jul 17 09:03:17 Shelly kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : no, not yet attached to interface: en0
Jul 17 09:03:17 Shelly kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : interface: en0, filter attached.
Jul 17 09:03:17 Shelly kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : current MTU for en0 is 1500, saving it.
Jul 17 09:03:17 Shelly kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : loading cisco ipsec kernel
Is that the right log?
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17-07-2008, 10:44 AM
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Not the right log. Also look for one in the /library/logs folder (or your 'username'/Library/Logs folder named "panic.log.
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17-07-2008, 11:48 AM
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Nope, no log record then 
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