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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Kernel Panic shortly after Finder loads

IslandJordan - Nov 30, 2005 - 10:00 pm

I came home this evening and woke up my iMac G5 20" 2.0GHz. The mouse was jumpy and weird, so I restarted. When the computer rebooted, I got a Kernel Panic shortly after the Finder loaded (again and again!).

I can boot in safe mode just fine. I've disabled all startup items, uninstalled anything I've installed in the last day -- all NO LUCK!

What's going on?!

philippe99 - Dec 1, 2005 - 2:27 am

Jordan, welcome to macosx.com
Could you follow the following article to suppress the Finder pref files (even with Terminal in SafeBoot if you cannot have a stable Finder window) and see if this helps ?

Regards
Philippe

philippe99 - Dec 9, 2005 - 1:53 am

The article:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/finder.html
Philippe

IslandJordan - Dec 9, 2005 - 6:29 am

Thanks guys! Sorry I never came back to respond. I thought that by disabling all the login items through the pref pane would have solved it. It didn't. What ended up fixing it was removing the StartupItems folder from the system library all together. I added the items back in one at a time to find the culprit.

Thanks for your help!

philippe99 - Dec 9, 2005 - 6:41 am

And so, for my personal records, which one was the culprit ?
Philippe

IslandJordan - Dec 9, 2005 - 6:45 am

There are two things I didn't finish testing, but since I didn't know what either of them are, I just decided to leave them out, so it could be either or both of them.

- Qmaster
- XupportNetworkOptimizer

philippe99 - Dec 9, 2005 - 6:59 am

Xupport is a tool for maintening the mac, like Cocktail, Onyw or Macjanitor
http://www.computer-support.ch/xupport/

Qmaster related to soft bundled with the mac for rendering
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301309

I have none of them on my iMacG5 of June...but I do not use any of the software Apple speaks about in the article above

Strange...cannot believe Xupport can be responsible: it's a tool for maintenance, nothing to do with StartupItems...
Do yopu recently update DVDStudioPro or FCP ?
Philippe

IslandJordan - Dec 9, 2005 - 7:25 am

I did recently update FCP. However, I suspect that the problem is Xupport - perhaps it doesn't play well with Cocktail, which I recently installed, or, for some reason, Saft?

philippe99 - Dec 9, 2005 - 7:37 am

But theoritically, Saft is only a plug-in for Safari....so must be in
~/Library/InputManagers
~/Library/Internet Plug-ins
(where ~represents your home folder)

Or perhaps, does Saft have a PreferencesPane with the SystemPreferences, which will explain the required stuff in StartupItems ?

Is Saft up-to-date as far as you release of the OS is concerned ?

Philippe