Thom Holwerda's Journal: Kernel Panic!!!

AAARRRGGHHH It's been nothing but hell, the upgrade to OS 10.3.6 on my iMac....

Immediatly when I got it back from the Apple Store I installed the new update; it ran fine for a few days. Untill it apparantly had enough: it got into a kernel panic loop. On reboot, it'd panic even before the Apple loading window appeared; one could read the panic notice faintly on the blue backdrop.

I repaired permissions, and it seemed as though it solved the problem. Untill today. It panicked again. I immediatly backupped my important stuff, and did a complete Panther re-install. I figured I'd just stay the hell away from 10.3.6. Bad idea.

The problems I had before I took it to the Apple Store returned! I then read the changelog of .3.6, and read that they had updated the Ati/nVidia drivers. That explained why I hadn't been getting any screen fuck-ups... Right. So there I was, stuck between screen fuck-ups and kernel panics.

I chose the latter. I updated, but immediatly upon reboot, the panics resurfaced. At this point I was seriously thinking of giving up on all the crap. First the screen fuck-ups, now these panics, I simply had it. But, I didn't give up.

I repaired permissions... Again. And again. And again. Suddenly, it seemed that a few security fixes weren't installed. How the hell could that be?? I used the friggin' combo update to update my freshly installed 10.3.0 to 10.3.6! Well, I didn't complain, installed these updates, repaired permissions, and here I am. In OS X. I'm wondering how long it's gonna take.