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Troubleshooting OSX Kernel Panics - Part 1

Posted in Macintosh by kevin on Wed, 03/07/2007 - 3:32pm


If you see the following on your Macintosh you are having a serious problem caused by a problem with your hardware and/or software.

 

KernelPanic1
 
You should follow these steps to troubleshoot the problem:
  1. Go to the Finder, then to Applications, then to Utilities.
  2. Double click on Terminal.app
  3. Type in the following without the quotes "open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app /Library/Logs/panic.log"
    1. This is your starting point for seeing what has been happening.  In many cases this will tell you what is causing the kernel panic.
  4. The second part of this tutorial will address hardware and software troubleshooting.

 

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