So you've already seen the crash after upgrading in the last day or so?
Yes.
How often does your machine do this?
Highly variable. It can go for months without one -- this week though, it's done it twice. (Once before and once after the SL upgrade.)
Bear in mind -- I've never lost any data from it, and a power cycle clears it. It's a nuisance more than anything else. But it's a spectacular nuisance. :)
It appears to be connected to the power saving/screensaver cycle. That is, the times I've seen it happen, it's always when I come back to my desk after it's gone to sleep.
I know it's rare (or I can reasonably assume it). If one does a google for "mac snow crash," the top hit is my YouTube video, and a few places where I've talked about it, and... lots of Neal Stephenson fanboyism. :) If it was happening to more people, one would expect I'd have some company. But I don't.
But knowing it "hardly ever happens" is of little comfort when I'm staring at the screen as it's doing it. :)
Further, this is an artifact of any large population. Windows has an installed base of over a billion users. That means a good amount of the time, when someone has a problem, it's a problem only one person has because they've won that mini-lottery. I know, because I've been on the other end of the phone of support calls like that, when people have come up with remarkably arcane and idiosyncratic ways to use a computer.
To a degree, problems like this show the Mac platform is maturing. They finally have a big enough installed base for "one in a million" problems to hit someone you know. :)
I hadn't run Apple Hardware Test yet, if that's the program you're referring to. Prompted by this, I am right now. No option for an overnight test -- just "extended," which they estimate to take 1 hour plus.
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Date: 2009-08-30 06:24 am (UTC)Yes.
How often does your machine do this?
Highly variable. It can go for months without one -- this week though, it's done it twice. (Once before and once after the SL upgrade.)
Bear in mind -- I've never lost any data from it, and a power cycle clears it. It's a nuisance more than anything else. But it's a spectacular nuisance. :)
It appears to be connected to the power saving/screensaver cycle. That is, the times I've seen it happen, it's always when I come back to my desk after it's gone to sleep.
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Date: 2009-08-30 06:57 am (UTC)I know it's rare (or I can reasonably assume it). If one does a google for "mac snow crash," the top hit is my YouTube video, and a few places where I've talked about it, and... lots of Neal Stephenson fanboyism. :) If it was happening to more people, one would expect I'd have some company. But I don't.
But knowing it "hardly ever happens" is of little comfort when I'm staring at the screen as it's doing it. :)
Further, this is an artifact of any large population. Windows has an installed base of over a billion users. That means a good amount of the time, when someone has a problem, it's a problem only one person has because they've won that mini-lottery. I know, because I've been on the other end of the phone of support calls like that, when people have come up with remarkably arcane and idiosyncratic ways to use a computer.
To a degree, problems like this show the Mac platform is maturing. They finally have a big enough installed base for "one in a million" problems to hit someone you know. :)
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Date: 2009-08-30 06:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-30 06:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-30 06:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-30 05:40 pm (UTC)Time of testing -- 1hr, 11 mins, 1 sec
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Date: 2009-08-30 06:48 pm (UTC)Any external devices (USB or FireWire drives, etc) that might be causing sleep/wake problems? Can you replicate it by manually sleeping/waking?