I was using my iBook and I suddenly received a message saying

"You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power
button for several seonds or press the Restart button"

This message was also given in French, German, and (I think)
Japanese.

There was no other indication of why, no normal Mac GUI features
on the message box, the mouse froze.

I could do nothing except reboot, but after two attempted reboots,
the same message and lock up of the machine happened.

I am quite worried by this and am thinking it might be some infection
on my machine.

I have now managed to ssh into the machine from another machine
and looking through the logs, the only things that I can find that
would be related is in /var/log/crashreporter.log:

Mon Feb 27 14:41:55 2006 crashdump[110]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
Mon Feb 27 14:43:43 2006 crashdump[129]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
Mon Feb 27 14:45:20 2006 crashdump[128]: crashdump invoked as panicdump

and in windowserver.log (3 such entries... just showing the first one):

Feb 27 14:41:46 [67] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXSetWindowListTags: Operation on a window 0x1 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
Feb 27 14:41:47 [67] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXOrderWindow: Operation on a window 0x1 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
Feb 27 14:42:07 [67] kCGErrorFailure: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1 second. Server has re-enabled them.

Which correspond approximately to the times of the forced reboots.

Does anyone have any idea what could have caused this? The only
unusual action I made just before the initial forced reboot was to
insert a data CD (burnt by myself under Windows).

And can anyone help me with:

How can I force eject the CD from the command line as I
have no physical means of doing this?

Is there a means by which I can do a 'safe' boot?

Many thanks,

Axel

axel@white-eagle.invalid.uk wrote:

Following up my own post.

> I was using my iBook and I suddenly received a message saying
>
> "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power
> button for several seonds or press the Restart button"
>
> This message was also given in French, German, and (I think)
> Japanese.

I have now confirmed that this is a kernel panic message - not a
very helpful one as it does not announce itself as such!

> I am quite worried by this and am thinking it might be some infection
> on my machine.

Not surprisingly I thought along these lines since the source of
the message was not given... anyone from Apple reading this
newsgroup... if so please give some more information with this
message, such as saying "Kernel Panic" and perhaps a URL for more
information - I found some info at:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227)

and the location of the panic log: /Library/Logs/panic.log
This would help ensure that only the computer and not the user
panics.

> Does anyone have any idea what could have caused this? The only
> unusual action I made just before the initial forced reboot was to
> insert a data CD (burnt by myself under Windows).

> And can anyone help me with:

> How can I force eject the CD from the command line as I
> have no physical means of doing this?

I am now pretty sure that it was the CD causing the problem. I was
able to eject it by booting into Open Firmware (Use Command + Option
+ O + F during bootup) and using the command sequence:

eject cd
boot

got the CD out and rebooted without the forced reboot reappearing
after logging in (touch wood).

I tried the CD on a Windows machine and that simply could not read it
so it was probably a faulty burn on an external HP CD drive some
years ago (actually shortly before the CD drive died, so probably
some connexion there).

Axel

axel@white-eagle.invalid.uk wrote:

Following up my own post.

> I was using my iBook and I suddenly received a message saying
>
> "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power
> button for several seonds or press the Restart button"
>
> This message was also given in French, German, and (I think)
> Japanese.

I have now confirmed that this is a kernel panic message - not a
very helpful one as it does not announce itself as such!

> I am quite worried by this and am thinking it might be some infection
> on my machine.

Not surprisingly I thought along these lines since the source of
the message was not given... anyone from Apple reading this
newsgroup... if so please give some more information with this
message, such as saying "Kernel Panic" and perhaps a URL for more
information - I found some info at:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227)

and the location of the panic log: /Library/Logs/panic.log
This would help ensure that only the computer and not the user
panics.

> Does anyone have any idea what could have caused this? The only
> unusual action I made just before the initial forced reboot was to
> insert a data CD (burnt by myself under Windows).

> And can anyone help me with:

> How can I force eject the CD from the command line as I
> have no physical means of doing this?

I am now pretty sure that it was the CD causing the problem. I was
able to eject it by booting into Open Firmware (Use Command + Option
+ O + F during bootup) and using the command sequence:

eject cd
boot

got the CD out and rebooted without the forced reboot reappearing
after logging in (touch wood).

I tried the CD on a Windows machine and that simply could not read it
so it was probably a faulty burn on an external HP CD drive some
years ago (actually shortly before the CD drive died, so probably
some connexion there).

Axel

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:08:01 GMT
axel@white-eagle.invalid.uk wrote:

> I was using my iBook and I suddenly received a message saying
>
> "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power
> button for several seonds or press the Restart button"
>
> This message was also given in French, German, and (I think)
> Japanese.
>
> There was no other indication of why, no normal Mac GUI features
> on the message box, the mouse froze.
>
> I could do nothing except reboot, but after two attempted reboots,
> the same message and lock up of the machine happened.
>
> I am quite worried by this and am thinking it might be some infection
> on my machine.
>
> I have now managed to ssh into the machine from another machine
> and looking through the logs, the only things that I can find that
> would be related is in /var/log/crashreporter.log:
>
> Mon Feb 27 14:41:55 2006 crashdump[110]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
> Mon Feb 27 14:43:43 2006 crashdump[129]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
> Mon Feb 27 14:45:20 2006 crashdump[128]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
>
> and in windowserver.log (3 such entries... just showing the first one):
>
> Feb 27 14:41:46 [67] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXSetWindowListTags: Operation on a window 0x1 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
> Feb 27 14:41:47 [67] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXOrderWindow: Operation on a window 0x1 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
> Feb 27 14:42:07 [67] kCGErrorFailure: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1 second. Server has re-enabled them.
>
> Which correspond approximately to the times of the forced reboots.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what could have caused this? The only
> unusual action I made just before the initial forced reboot was to
> insert a data CD (burnt by myself under Windows).
>
> And can anyone help me with:
>
> How can I force eject the CD from the command line as I
> have no physical means of doing this?
>
> Is there a means by which I can do a 'safe' boot?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Axel
>


The error message you describe happened to me once, the problem turned out to be bad RAM. It ws RAM that had worked fine with OS 9 but not with OS X.

Ejecting a CD from the command line: $ disktool -e disk1 (replace "1" with the appropriate number).

To boot in "safe" mode press the shift key *after* you hear the bong.

Best of Luck,

ld

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:08:01 GMT
axel@white-eagle.invalid.uk wrote:

> I was using my iBook and I suddenly received a message saying
>
> "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power
> button for several seonds or press the Restart button"
>
> This message was also given in French, German, and (I think)
> Japanese.
>
> There was no other indication of why, no normal Mac GUI features
> on the message box, the mouse froze.
>
> I could do nothing except reboot, but after two attempted reboots,
> the same message and lock up of the machine happened.
>
> I am quite worried by this and am thinking it might be some infection
> on my machine.
>
> I have now managed to ssh into the machine from another machine
> and looking through the logs, the only things that I can find that
> would be related is in /var/log/crashreporter.log:
>
> Mon Feb 27 14:41:55 2006 crashdump[110]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
> Mon Feb 27 14:43:43 2006 crashdump[129]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
> Mon Feb 27 14:45:20 2006 crashdump[128]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
>
> and in windowserver.log (3 such entries... just showing the first one):
>
> Feb 27 14:41:46 [67] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXSetWindowListTags: Operation on a window 0x1 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
> Feb 27 14:41:47 [67] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXOrderWindow: Operation on a window 0x1 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
> Feb 27 14:42:07 [67] kCGErrorFailure: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1 second. Server has re-enabled them.
>
> Which correspond approximately to the times of the forced reboots.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what could have caused this? The only
> unusual action I made just before the initial forced reboot was to
> insert a data CD (burnt by myself under Windows).
>
> And can anyone help me with:
>
> How can I force eject the CD from the command line as I
> have no physical means of doing this?
>
> Is there a means by which I can do a 'safe' boot?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Axel
>


The error message you describe happened to me once, the problem turned out to be bad RAM. It ws RAM that had worked fine with OS 9 but not with OS X.

Ejecting a CD from the command line: $ disktool -e disk1 (replace "1" with the appropriate number).

To boot in "safe" mode press the shift key *after* you hear the bong.

Best of Luck,

ld

lunar_dawn wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:08:01 GMT
> axel@white-eagle.invalid.uk wrote:
>
>
>>I was using my iBook and I suddenly received a message saying
>>
>> "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power
>> button for several seonds or press the Restart button"
>>
>>This message was also given in French, German, and (I think)
>>Japanese.
>>
>>There was no other indication of why, no normal Mac GUI features
>>on the message box, the mouse froze.
>>
>>I could do nothing except reboot, but after two attempted reboots,
>>the same message and lock up of the machine happened.
>>
>>I am quite worried by this and am thinking it might be some infection
>>on my machine.
>>
>>I have now managed to ssh into the machine from another machine
>>and looking through the logs, the only things that I can find that
>>would be related is in /var/log/crashreporter.log:
>>
>>Mon Feb 27 14:41:55 2006 crashdump[110]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
>>Mon Feb 27 14:43:43 2006 crashdump[129]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
>>Mon Feb 27 14:45:20 2006 crashdump[128]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
>>
>>and in windowserver.log (3 such entries... just showing the first one):
>>
>>Feb 27 14:41:46 [67] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXSetWindowListTags: Operation on a window 0x1 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
>>Feb 27 14:41:47 [67] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXOrderWindow: Operation on a window 0x1 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
>>Feb 27 14:42:07 [67] kCGErrorFailure: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1 second. Server has re-enabled them.
>>
>>Which correspond approximately to the times of the forced reboots.
>>
>>Does anyone have any idea what could have caused this? The only
>>unusual action I made just before the initial forced reboot was to
>>insert a data CD (burnt by myself under Windows).
>>
>>And can anyone help me with:
>>
>> How can I force eject the CD from the command line as I
>> have no physical means of doing this?
>>
>> Is there a means by which I can do a 'safe' boot?
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>
>>Axel
>>
>
>
>
> The error message you describe happened to me once, the problem turned out to be bad RAM. It ws RAM that had worked fine with OS 9 but not with OS X.
>
> Ejecting a CD from the command line: $ disktool -e disk1 (replace "1" with the appropriate number).
>
> To boot in "safe" mode press the shift key *after* you hear the bong.
>
> Best of Luck,
>
> ld
Also hold down the mouse button as you power up, this might eject your CD.
Have you tried repairing permissions by booting from your install disc #1?



--
http://intonewdecade.blogspot.com/

lunar_dawn wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:08:01 GMT
> axel@white-eagle.invalid.uk wrote:
>
>
>>I was using my iBook and I suddenly received a message saying
>>
>> "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power
>> button for several seonds or press the Restart button"
>>
>>This message was also given in French, German, and (I think)
>>Japanese.
>>
>>There was no other indication of why, no normal Mac GUI features
>>on the message box, the mouse froze.
>>
>>I could do nothing except reboot, but after two attempted reboots,
>>the same message and lock up of the machine happened.
>>
>>I am quite worried by this and am thinking it might be some infection
>>on my machine.
>>
>>I have now managed to ssh into the machine from another machine
>>and looking through the logs, the only things that I can find that
>>would be related is in /var/log/crashreporter.log:
>>
>>Mon Feb 27 14:41:55 2006 crashdump[110]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
>>Mon Feb 27 14:43:43 2006 crashdump[129]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
>>Mon Feb 27 14:45:20 2006 crashdump[128]: crashdump invoked as panicdump
>>
>>and in windowserver.log (3 such entries... just showing the first one):
>>
>>Feb 27 14:41:46 [67] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXSetWindowListTags: Operation on a window 0x1 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
>>Feb 27 14:41:47 [67] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXOrderWindow: Operation on a window 0x1 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
>>Feb 27 14:42:07 [67] kCGErrorFailure: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1 second. Server has re-enabled them.
>>
>>Which correspond approximately to the times of the forced reboots.
>>
>>Does anyone have any idea what could have caused this? The only
>>unusual action I made just before the initial forced reboot was to
>>insert a data CD (burnt by myself under Windows).
>>
>>And can anyone help me with:
>>
>> How can I force eject the CD from the command line as I
>> have no physical means of doing this?
>>
>> Is there a means by which I can do a 'safe' boot?
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>
>>Axel
>>
>
>
>
> The error message you describe happened to me once, the problem turned out to be bad RAM. It ws RAM that had worked fine with OS 9 but not with OS X.
>
> Ejecting a CD from the command line: $ disktool -e disk1 (replace "1" with the appropriate number).
>
> To boot in "safe" mode press the shift key *after* you hear the bong.
>
> Best of Luck,
>
> ld
Also hold down the mouse button as you power up, this might eject your CD.
Have you tried repairing permissions by booting from your install disc #1?



--
http://intonewdecade.blogspot.com/

lunar_dawn <lunar_dawn@nospamfor.moi> wrote:

> The error message you describe happened to me once, the problem
> turned out to be bad RAM. It ws RAM that had worked fine with OS
> 9 but not with OS X.

> Ejecting a CD from the command line: $ disktool -e disk1 (replace
> "1" with the appropriate number).

> To boot in "safe" mode press the shift key *after* you hear the bong.

> Best of Luck,

Thanks for the info!

Axel

lunar_dawn <lunar_dawn@nospamfor.moi> wrote:

> The error message you describe happened to me once, the problem
> turned out to be bad RAM. It ws RAM that had worked fine with OS
> 9 but not with OS X.

> Ejecting a CD from the command line: $ disktool -e disk1 (replace
> "1" with the appropriate number).

> To boot in "safe" mode press the shift key *after* you hear the bong.

> Best of Luck,

Thanks for the info!

Axel

In article <VeFMf.27365$wl.23237@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk >,
axel@white-eagle.invalid.uk wrote:

> I am now pretty sure that it was the CD causing the problem. I was
> able to eject it by booting into Open Firmware (Use Command + Option
> + O + F during bootup) and using the command sequence:
>
> eject cd
> boot

Just as a point of interest, in System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras
there's a file called Eject.menu which, when you double click on it,
will place an eject item in your menu bar. Of course, I don't know how
to get rid of it ... oh I see, com.apple.systemuiserver.plist and edit
it out of your user prefs.

There's some other weird stuff in there, too.
--
W. Oates
Teal'c: He is concealing something.
O'Neil: Like what?
Teal'c: I am unsure, he is concealing it.

In article <VeFMf.27365$wl.23237@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk >,
axel@white-eagle.invalid.uk wrote:

> I am now pretty sure that it was the CD causing the problem. I was
> able to eject it by booting into Open Firmware (Use Command + Option
> + O + F during bootup) and using the command sequence:
>
> eject cd
> boot

Just as a point of interest, in System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras
there's a file called Eject.menu which, when you double click on it,
will place an eject item in your menu bar. Of course, I don't know how
to get rid of it ... oh I see, com.apple.systemuiserver.plist and edit
it out of your user prefs.

There's some other weird stuff in there, too.
--
W. Oates
Teal'c: He is concealing something.
O'Neil: Like what?
Teal'c: I am unsure, he is concealing it.

OK. I'm as dumb as I look. I suckered for this and double clicked on
Eject.menu. Now I want it out of the menu bar, but I can't seem to figure
out how to do the supposedly simple manuever of editing it out of my user
prefs. When I get to com.apple.systemuiserver.plist, I don't know what to
open it with to "edit it out of my user prefs."

Can someone help this dum ol' hillbilly?

Thank you!

--Guy

> Just as a point of interest, in System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras
> there's a file called Eject.menu which, when you double click on it,
> will place an eject item in your menu bar. Of course, I don't know how
> to get rid of it ... oh I see, com.apple.systemuiserver.plist and edit
> it out of your user prefs.

OK. I'm as dumb as I look. I suckered for this and double clicked on
Eject.menu. Now I want it out of the menu bar, but I can't seem to figure
out how to do the supposedly simple manuever of editing it out of my user
prefs. When I get to com.apple.systemuiserver.plist, I don't know what to
open it with to "edit it out of my user prefs."

Can someone help this dum ol' hillbilly?

Thank you!

--Guy

> Just as a point of interest, in System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras
> there's a file called Eject.menu which, when you double click on it,
> will place an eject item in your menu bar. Of course, I don't know how
> to get rid of it ... oh I see, com.apple.systemuiserver.plist and edit
> it out of your user prefs.

> > Just as a point of interest, in System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras
> > there's a file called Eject.menu which, when you double click on it,
> > will place an eject item in your menu bar. Of course, I don't know how
> > to get rid of it .


In article <C02A0660.12956%gwkuddles@comcast.net>,
Guy Kudlemyer <gwkuddles@comcast.net> wrote:

> OK. I'm as dumb as I look. I suckered for this and double clicked on
> Eject.menu. Now I want it out of the menu bar, but I can't seem to figure
> out how to do the supposedly simple manuever of editing it out of my user
> prefs. When I get to com.apple.systemuiserver.plist, I don't know what to
> open it with to "edit it out of my user prefs."

Try holding the Apple (command) key while dragging it out of the Menu
Bar.

jim

> > Just as a point of interest, in System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras
> > there's a file called Eject.menu which, when you double click on it,
> > will place an eject item in your menu bar. Of course, I don't know how
> > to get rid of it .


In article <C02A0660.12956%gwkuddles@comcast.net>,
Guy Kudlemyer <gwkuddles@comcast.net> wrote:

> OK. I'm as dumb as I look. I suckered for this and double clicked on
> Eject.menu. Now I want it out of the menu bar, but I can't seem to figure
> out how to do the supposedly simple manuever of editing it out of my user
> prefs. When I get to com.apple.systemuiserver.plist, I don't know what to
> open it with to "edit it out of my user prefs."

Try holding the Apple (command) key while dragging it out of the Menu
Bar.

jim