Yong-Long Lai

It’s been about the third week with my new MacBook today. Though it’s been an awesome experience with all the little surprises that makes life on a computer easier and a lot more fun, it hasn’t been all smooth road. I remember one of the Apple salesman talking about how cool Macs were and how Macs don’t crash etc. well all I can say is that its not true! Macs do crash (most of which -i suspect- are caused by all the cool applications that you can get on the MacBook)

End of the day, I managed to find what I think is the “Blue Screen of Death“! for the Mac. Hopefully this doesn’t happen to you on your MacBook… Blue Screen of Death are never a happy moment.

For all the “techy” people who are interested in seeing the details…

Thu Aug 7 21:25:37 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0×00192FD4): “pmap_flush_tlbs() timeout: ” “cpu 1 failing to respond to interrupts, pmap=0×536500 cpus_to_signal=2″@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.5.20/osfmk/i386/pmap.c:4570
Backtrace, Format – Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0×34797b58 : 0×12b0fa (0×4592a4 0×34797b8c 0×133243 0×0)
0×34797ba8 : 0×192fd4 (0×45f414 0×1 0×536500 0×2)
0×34797c18 : 0×1932b8 (0×1 0×53654c 0×0 0×1a236f)
0×34797cc8 : 0×195721 (0×536500 0×27b9b000 0×0 0xfe93dcd8)
0×34797d28 : 0×179ccf (0×536500 0×27b9b000 0×0 0×27b9c000)
0×34797d78 : 0×17a0cd (0×45c62bc 0×27b9b000 0×0 0×27b9c000)
0×34797de8 : 0×1622f9 (0×30c68cc 0×0 0×0 0×1)
0×34797f58 : 0×1a8f72 (0×4435780 0xa76000 0×0 0×1)
0×34797fc8 : 0×19ece6 (0×43b95a0 0×0 0×10 0×43b95a0)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbfffeb28

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer

Mac OS version:
9E17

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:30:53 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBook4,1 (Mac-F22788A9)

I have no idea what it means, all I know is that it looks like a Blue Screen Of Death to me!