Comments on: Panther Attacks, I Relax and Enjoy (ewwww)

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:42:00 +0000

After disabling journaling my system is as stable as it used to be.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:50:51 +0000

I get at least one system freeze a day since I’ve (archived and) installed Panther. Everything seems locked but some apps keep working for a while, e.g. iChat. My system is a dual G4 1.25 with an ACARD 6880M stripeset. The locks are not related to heavy I/O.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 05:47:02 +0000

FWIW, I haven’t had a lockup since that day, but I haven’t been using the PowerBook as much, and the massive IMAP sync I was doing won’t be replicated any time soon.

See MacSlash for the other reports, from October 24th and 26th.

By: Victor Ng's Weblog

Victor Ng's Weblog — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 18:05:21 +0000

WTF is wrong with Panther?

Ok - so I’ve had Panther (10.3) for about a week now and I’m getting more irritated with it by the day. I’ve had data corruption issues, and now I’m getting random lockups on boot up. The only things I’ve done differently to my machine is that I’ve got…

By: Victor Ng

Victor Ng — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:53:57 +0000

Finally!

Someone else gets lockups like me in Panther.

I get (or used to get) constant lockups in Panther on my Powerbook. Yesterday I had at least 4 system freezes where nothing would respond. I eventually decided to give up and roll back my system to Jaguar.

Where are you seeing other reports of system freezes? I can’t seem to find any information on what may be going wrong. I really like the features in Panther, but I simply can’t tolerate the total system lockups that I was getting.

The only thing ’special’ about my setup is that I had 2 database servers (MySQL 4 and PostgreSQL 7.4) startup on bootup.