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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze |
| Date | 2014-12-28 13:48 +0000 |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
| Message-ID | <cgag1kFhpibU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <2014122713335125228-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <andreas-91C224.07022528122014@news.individual.de> |
On 2014-12-28, Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> wrote:
> Salut Savageduck
>
> In article <2014122713335125228-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
> Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
>
>> This morning I have been baffled by four spontaneous reboots (nothing
>> that I initiated). The display goes blank and I get the start up chime.
>> Then I get a blank, white screen. No , no login window, no cursor,
>> nada!.
>> I have to go to the power button and recycle: turn power off and power
>> up. That restarts the Mac very, unusually slowly.
>>
>> I am running OSX 10.10.1 on a 3.6 GHz i5, with 16 GB RAM.
>
> was that not you who told us the nice story about an iMac falling down
> and only the monitor glass broke? Is this the same machine?
Oh yeah! That was him, huh?
> From your reply to Jolly it seems that the disk has a serious problem:
>
> Dec 27 12:54:34 L-Os-iMac kernel[0]: disk0: I/O error.
> Dec 27 12:54:59 L-Os-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]
> (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): The
> _DJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
> Dec 27 12:55:43 L-Os-iMac kernel[0]: disk0: I/O error.
> Dec 27 12:58:05 L-Os-iMac kernel[0]: disk0: I/O error.
> Dec 27 13:05:37 localhost bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1419714337 0
Yep. That's a failing hard drive. It's possible during the fall the
head crashed.
Savageduck, have you run Disk Utility > Verify Disk? What does it
report? Is the data on this drive backed up with Time Machine?
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Spontaneous reboot and freeze Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-12-27 13:33 -0800
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-27 22:29 +0000
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-12-27 15:27 -0800
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-28 01:27 +0000
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-12-27 19:42 -0800
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-12-27 17:30 -0500
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-12-27 15:30 -0800
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-12-27 18:41 -0500
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-12-27 20:00 -0800
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-12-28 20:45 +1100
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-28 14:00 +0000
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-12-28 08:00 -0800
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-28 16:36 +0000
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-12-28 07:02 +0100
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-12-27 22:41 -0800
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-28 13:48 +0000
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-12-28 09:43 -0500
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-12-28 08:14 -0800
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-12-28 11:39 -0500
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> - 2014-12-28 12:55 -0800
Re: Spontaneous reboot and freeze Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-12-28 13:40 -0800
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