Kernel Panic, now Bluetooth is not working

Lt Major Burns

Lt Major Burns

"Dicky" Charlteston-Burns
I had a random Kernel Panic this morning, and it seemed unprovoked. when i rebooted, i ran fsck twice until it was clear, and now i notice that the Bluetooth menu is 'unavalable' in the menu bar. it is no longer a present preference pane, and the Bluetooth menu in the system profiler says 'no devices', or similar.

is this a shot bluetooth module (it's internal), or can it be fixed via troubleshooting?
 
Try zapping the Pram and reset Open Firmware;

Reboot your computer while holding down Command-Option-O-F. At the prompt, type

reset-nvram and hit the Return key, then type
reset-all and hit the Return key again. Your computer will reboot.
 
i got another kernel panic today (not a full one, i didn't get the grey screen or the instructions telling me to restart, it just completely locked up, mouse and everything). after the reboot, bluetooth is back.

what's worrying is 2 kernel panics in 24 hours. it's out of warranty and i can not afford expensive logic board replacements or similar....
 
another full kernel panic. went into open firmware, reset nvram, it just said ok. is that right? reset-all and rebooted.
 
Kernel Panicked again. :(

this time i know it was caused by TransparentDock, which i downloaded this morning. it would seem the previous panic was caused by that also.

:( i will try reseating all my Ram, cards, everything....
 
Several things, mostly baddly written or compiled software or more often (in my experience at least) a hardware fault.

As for what is a kernel panic, in laymans terms it is when the core operating system under the cocoa and aqua layers (Darwin I think it is called) crashes. On Macs it is usually indicated by a lot of unix text overwriting the desktop and an unresponsive Mac.
 
the problem appears to have dissappeared.

A Kernel Panic is the Kernel (deep down system processes, the core of the OS) Panicking, as a result of something very fundamental going wrong. the result is a grey screen telling you to restart your computer using the power button on the mac, and nothing responding to anything, including the mouse.

the causes are usually hardware related (a newly faulty motherboard, bad memory, hard disk faliure, but can be software related also. i realised the last 3 panics on that day were unrelated to the first one, which was an anomoly. the last three were all creditable to the TransparentDock app, which is obviously badly coded, in that although i was trying to run it from within a .dmg, it was resulting in a full Kernel Panic. i sorted just by unpacking the dmg and then running it normally. it turns out that it's next to useless...
 
I have a Linksys wireless card connected to my power book 15'. When the card is physically ejected I get what I think is beng described as a Kernel Panic. (Text accross the screen and machine lock up). I am not sure if I saw a fix in the thread so any ideas will be appriciated.
 
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