[OS X TeX] kernel panic with Mac OS TeX

[Justin C. Walker]

On Dec 10, 2007, at 13:05 , David Kaplan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My apologies if this has been posted and answered in the past.  It  
> seems that when I use MacTeX every so often the machine will do a  
> shut down - usually when I attempt to save a .tex file or a .bib  
> file that I've changed.  It doesn't happen routinely and doesn't  
> happen with other apps.  The screen goes gray and a dialog box  
> comes up asking me to shut down and restart the machine.

This should not happen, and it's not a common occurrence (or you'd  
probably hear squawking all the way to Madison :-}).

A couple of thoughts:
  - does this only happen with TeXShop?  Do you actively use
    the Mac for other things?
  - anything else happening at the same time you see this?
  - any fancy add-in software that fiddles with menus or does
    other neat things that aren't standard on Mac OS X?
  - what hardware?  OS version?  TeXShop version?

Hardware problems suggest themselves (memory, disk).  It could also  
be a kernel bug.  What specifically does the dialog box say?

Also, check the directories ~/Library/Logs and /Library/Logs.  These  
directories, and specifically, the subdirectory "CrashReporter", if  
present, may have new entries related to the crashes.

Justin

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