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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 394435" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>I've had five kernel panics on my Macbook since I bought it, but haven't had any in quite awhile, so whatever it was that caused them seems to have mysteriously fixed them. Most of them happened when I was out and about with it. One happened right after I stuck a USB thumbdrive in, but the rest kind of happened just out of nowhere. None since, though, fingers crossed.</p><p></p><p>I've had one freeze; the type described where mouse cursor moves, but nothing responds. No chance to force-quit, and I'm pretty sure that when I pinged it from another machine there was no response. Had to power-button it. None since then though.</p><p></p><p>The other thing that can happen is Finder can go wonky. I can pretty much make it happen if I put my Macbook to sleep while my external firewire drive is connected and mounted. My external drive doesn't seem to cope very well with the Mac it's connected to going to sleep. When it wakes up and I try to do any kind of file operation (double click a folder, for example) Finder will lock-up as if it's waiting for an I/O from the external drive. You can't force-quit it to relaunch either as neither the Apple menu will respond, nor can you launch Activity Monitor since you can't get to it (though I do now have AM on my Dock...be curious to see if I could do it that way, but I don't want to risk my 200+ gig of data on that drive to experiment.) Thought I needed to reboot, but on a lark I disconnected the external drive. Finder started responding, initially by complaining that you disconnected a device without unmounting it, which of course you shouldn't but then Finder was back to normal. Fortunately when I plugged it back in whatever checks file system integrity (fsck?) fixed any issues there might have been with the external drive and mounted it back up.</p><p></p><p>So be sure you eject and disconnect (or at least just eject) any firewire external drives before you put a Mac to sleep or Finder might get confused in a bad way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 394435, member: 9385"] I've had five kernel panics on my Macbook since I bought it, but haven't had any in quite awhile, so whatever it was that caused them seems to have mysteriously fixed them. Most of them happened when I was out and about with it. One happened right after I stuck a USB thumbdrive in, but the rest kind of happened just out of nowhere. None since, though, fingers crossed. I've had one freeze; the type described where mouse cursor moves, but nothing responds. No chance to force-quit, and I'm pretty sure that when I pinged it from another machine there was no response. Had to power-button it. None since then though. The other thing that can happen is Finder can go wonky. I can pretty much make it happen if I put my Macbook to sleep while my external firewire drive is connected and mounted. My external drive doesn't seem to cope very well with the Mac it's connected to going to sleep. When it wakes up and I try to do any kind of file operation (double click a folder, for example) Finder will lock-up as if it's waiting for an I/O from the external drive. You can't force-quit it to relaunch either as neither the Apple menu will respond, nor can you launch Activity Monitor since you can't get to it (though I do now have AM on my Dock...be curious to see if I could do it that way, but I don't want to risk my 200+ gig of data on that drive to experiment.) Thought I needed to reboot, but on a lark I disconnected the external drive. Finder started responding, initially by complaining that you disconnected a device without unmounting it, which of course you shouldn't but then Finder was back to normal. Fortunately when I plugged it back in whatever checks file system integrity (fsck?) fixed any issues there might have been with the external drive and mounted it back up. So be sure you eject and disconnect (or at least just eject) any firewire external drives before you put a Mac to sleep or Finder might get confused in a bad way. [/QUOTE]
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