Kernel Panic! at the disco...

[VertigoZA]

Right... so I need some help.

I had an old white iMac (intel) that was starting to give issues.. (very slow and panicking at least once a week...

I decided instead of trying to resolve the issue, that I would splash-out and upgrade to a brand spanking new 24" iMac.

It arrived yesterday, I did a quick automated migration from the old machine to the new one. Everything went smoothly and painlessly.

until...

This morning the brand new machine has Panicked!!!!

Is this because files were transfered from the last machine??? Is this a coincidental hardware issue on the new machine and totally unrelated to the Old iMac... i really thought that getting a new machine would solve m problems!

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Just to add, the panic occured while only mail and calendar were runnning. Parallels is installed but was not active when the panic occurred and I haven't been able to reproduce the problem since. System is currently at 10.5 busy doing the 10.5.5 update.

 

[syntax]

It is odd, but i have had kernel panics from software related issues. Quick question before that, any chance u moved the ram from the old machine?

Unfortunately to narrow it down, i had to troll the logs looking for processes that were causing problems,
so i need log files...in order to help.....otherwise a machine assesment.

 

[VertigoZA]

Nope, didn't transfer the RAM, its a stock standard 24" iMac straight out the Box.

Will send you the Log File.

 

[StbA]

I suggest copying only the files you want over, i.e. Internet Fav's, Documents, Desktop, Keychain, Mail.plist and Mail, Movies, Photo's and Music.
Seems like some of your plist files are corrupt and looking for the guilty party takes a long time.

 

[Sputnik]

talk about duplicating an error.

looks like you'll have to do everything manually.

 

[VertigoZA]

Morning!

Well after the 10.5.5 updates, Same problem. Looks like Im going to have to manually transfer everything across.. good times.

FYI here is the Log from the First Panic:

Tue Oct 14 08:10:13 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00143013): "zalloc: \"kalloc.8192\" (26 elements) retry fail 3"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:770
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x33a97c88 : 0x12b0e1 (0x4555b4 0x33a97cbc 0x133238 0x0)
0x33a97cd8 : 0x143013 (0x457084 0x455dc8 0x1a 0x3)
0x33a97d38 : 0x12fa3a (0x17ba2d8 0x1 0x64 0x1a136f)
0x33a97d68 : 0x12fa59 (0x1690 0x1 0xbfe00000 0x0)
0x33a97d88 : 0x11d98f (0x1690 0x754d7ac 0x33a97dd8 0x136870)
0x33a97db8 : 0x12d0dd (0x10f0 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x33a97df8 : 0x126247 (0x1160c600 0x0 0x64 0x33a97ee4)
0x33a97f08 : 0x196afc (0x33a97f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x33a97fc8 : 0x19eb34 (0x3546d80 0x0 0x1a10b5 0x754c3c0)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffedbe8

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer

Mac OS version:
9A3129

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Thu Oct 11 19:23:39 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~3/RELEASE_I386
System model name: iMac7,1 (Mac-F42386C8)

and the second:

Wed Oct 15 07:40:49 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001431A9): "zalloc: \"kalloc.8192\" (26 elements) retry fail 3"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.7.58/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:770
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x213b7c88 : 0x12b0fa (0x459234 0x213b7cbc 0x133243 0x0)
0x213b7cd8 : 0x1431a9 (0x45ae80 0x459ac8 0x1a 0x3)
0x213b7d38 : 0x12fa53 (0x1b1e2d8 0x1 0x54 0x1a236f)
0x213b7d68 : 0x12fa72 (0x1690 0x1 0xb0200000 0x0)
0x213b7d88 : 0x11d99f (0x1690 0x1 0xb 0x6)
0x213b7db8 : 0x12d0f6 (0x10f0 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x213b7df8 : 0x126257 (0x12c33f00 0x0 0x54 0x213b7ee4)
0x213b7f08 : 0x1974c2 (0x213b7f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x213b7fc8 : 0x19f4a3 (0x348ff40 0x0 0x1a20b5 0x37a39a0)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xb0328538

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: ScreenSaverEngin

Mac OS version:
9F33

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep 3 11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: iMac7,1 (Mac-F42386C8)