02-26-2006, 08:25 PM

So I got my very first Kernel Panic today after owning the system for 9 months. I have a 2 GHz 20" iMac G5 with 1GB of Apple RAM. My Software is completely up to date, and I just installed iLife 2006 a week ago.

I had the following Applications Open:
Mail, Safari, iChat, and iTunes. My wife was also logged in with Mail and iChat running on her ID.

I was watching a Video in iTunes that I had ripped from a DVD that I own via Handbrake. I then docked my iPod while the video was playing and it started to sync. I was 1/2 way through the sync when I recieved the Kernel Panic.

Here is the output from the Log:
Sun Feb 26 20:09:35 2006
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0021B3DC): btree_journal_modify_block_end: about to write corrupt node!

Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00095718 0x00095C30 0x0002683C 0x0021B3DC 0x0021B584 0x002417EC 0x00240F48 0x0021D3E0
0x0023B838 0x000FB638 0x000E980C 0x000F4E18 0x000ED408 0x000ED7C8 0x002AA2E4 0x000ABEB0
0x00000000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2F90E500)
PC=0x90001CAC; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x308A4000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x90B27324; R1=0xF068B040; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.5.0: Sun Jan 22 10:38:46 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.61.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
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I quickly searched Apple's Support page for some information but it was rather light in details. Anyone know what any of this means?

Thanks,

02-26-2006, 08:36 PM

So I went in to do some maintenance on the system due to the Hard Powerdown. When I tried to Verify/Repair the iPod Mini, I got this:

Verify and Repair disk “Ray’s iPod Mini”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid BTH length
Volume check failed.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit


1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error

02-26-2006, 08:57 PM

Erase the Mini and repartition using Disk Utility.

Reload the Mini back to factory defaults.

Sounds like the mini may also have a failing hd.

02-26-2006, 09:01 PM

Ya, that's what I did when I got that message in the Disk Utility. I hope the HD's not failing as the entire unit was replaced less than 2 months ago by Apple Might be time to invest in a copy of Disk Warrior since I have no real HD Utilities on my iMac.

Thanks for the info.