Constant Kernel Panics

Lt Major Burns · Sep 28, 2006

I am getting constant kernel panics.

here's what i know:

i have three volumes, 2 on one hard drive, one on another. 'June 2006' was built in june, has 10.4.7, and has worked fine until yesterday. 'Macintosh HD' shares a drive with 'Test', and were built last october and today, respectively, and feature 10.4.6 and a clean install of 10.4.0 respectively.

Macintosh HD and June 2006 will both kernel panic roughly 20 seconds after initial log in after boot. the login screen is not affected. Safe Boot into either of these works fine. Safe Login doesn't affect anything, it still panics.

the clean install of 10.4 (no languages, only lexmark drivers) is currently working fine.

i was thinking hardware, but now that the clean install works fine, then that's not the case. all hardware appears to be fine, which was confirmed by Apple Hardware Test. it's not user-level processes, as the safe log-in would have found that.

it's got to be an extension. i'm now starting to think fonts. i have a lot, but they've been fine for months until yesterday. how can i find a corrupt font and delete it?

Regards,

Tom

attached is an example panic log (they're all the same , pretty much)

Code:

Sat Sep 23 15:53:41 2006


Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x00000000450D7000 PC=0x0000000000978730
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
   Exception state (sv=0x44B44500)
      PC=0x00978730; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x450D7000; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x009ACC28; R1=0x2C46B9C0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
      Backtrace:
0x009ACBC4 0x009AB7F0 0x009862B4 0x00986374 0x00983BD0 0x00983FE0 
         0x002EB0D0 0x0008CA44 0x000291C0 0x000233AC 0x000AC02C 0x3E3C6B65 
         backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFFDBD0

      Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.apple.ATIRadeon9700(4.1.8)@0x972000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x4d9000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.1)@0x938000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.1)@0x95c000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
   Exception state (sv=0x44B44500)
      previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
   Exception state (sv=0x44C3A000)
      PC=0x9000B0A8; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x450BDF5C; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x9000AFFC; R1=0xBFFFDBD0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.0: Tue Mar  7 16:58:48 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.70.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
      Backtrace:
         0x00095718 0x00095C30 0x0002683C 0x000A8384 0x000ABD00 
Proceeding back via exception chain:
   Exception state (sv=0x44B44500)
      PC=0x00978730; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x450D7000; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x009ACC28; R1=0x2C46B9C0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
      Backtrace:
0x009ACBC4 0x009AB7F0 0x009862B4 0x00986374 0x00983BD0 0x00983FE0 
         0x002EB0D0 0x0008CA44 0x000291C0 0x000233AC 0x000AC02C 0x3E3C6B65 
         backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFFDBD0

      Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.apple.ATIRadeon9700(4.1.8)@0x972000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x4d9000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.1)@0x938000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.1)@0x95c000
   Exception state (sv=0x44C3A000)
      PC=0x9000B0A8; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x450BDF5C; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x9000AFFC; R1=0xBFFFD@
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Constant Kernel Panics

Lt Major Burns

"Dicky" Charlteston-Burns