Kernel Panic on startup 10.4.11

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tatosan

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Hi... I have a g5 2.3mhz mac and one of my internal HD gets a kernel panic on startup right after "IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled". The panic is "panic(cpu1 0xsomenumber) freeing free mbuf". I can however boot into safe mode...I had this problem before and "solved" it by turning off all sharings and reenabling them after boot. But now that doesn't work. I cloned that disk when it was working, and the clone worked fine for weeks but now does the same thing. It doesn't seem hardware-related since I have an older clone of same disk which boots fine.
I have done everything: DWarrior, Drive Genius, Diskutil, TechTOol, permissions,pram,you name it.I am mystified. I've noticed that on normal boot, after IPv6 thing comes either Ethernet "UniNEnet: Ethernet address 00:0d:93:7a:42:34" or "lookupd (version 369.8) starting" so it could be some network related problem(network prefs, corrupt prefpanes...) I wonder if some one can suggest anything except reformatting.
 
Thanks for your time!
I have 2.5 gb, and memtest and other tests show it is fine..and i can boot perfectly from one of the disks (an older clone of the original).
 
Do you have IPv6 enabled?
Which version of airport software do you have?
Can you post the last panic of your panic.log?
 
I can't post the panic log since it does not save it...what i know is from verbose startup, i will try to copy it manually today.
 
Search for a file called panic.log in your system - if it's ever been of the nice kind, it will be saved on your system.
 
Okay.

I defer to the Gurus since you have already done what I would have suggested next to the "last resort" of Clean Reinstall or even Wipe-Reinstall.

--J.D.
 
No panic log is being kept for any startup panics...only old ones of another kind. That is very strange and annoying. System logs are absent too when booting fails.
I don't know if or how i can set up some kind of debugger. gdb or something.
 
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