WARNING: Continuous kernel panics after 2.0 beta installed!

spinkb · 03-20-2013, 10:12 PM

I was on vacation for a week. Sat down at machine, saw my notifier watching your site that it had changed, looked at it, and downloaded the new build.

Time machine had been running while on vacation...so my last backup was 30 minutes before installing this beta.

After restoring time machine, everything is back and working perfectly again. No kernel panics, no issues whatsoever. I restored to 30 minutes prior before installing the displaylink driver.

I did delete the kexts definitely. I even did a touch on the extensions dir to make the OS rebuild the kextcache (there wasn't one.)

I've never had issues with the displaylink drivers...this was my first issue.

Before the restore, and after deleting kexts, the machine would kernel panic if the displaylink device was connected. Removing it allowed me to boot to a gray screen, no Finder...and not on the network. Couple of times it was and I could SSH into it.

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My theory is that the first kernel panic caused file tree corruption. But even with booting in recovery mode on the OS, and repairing the disk using disk utility I never could get past gray screens at boot. Only with the TM restore were things OK. Back on a3, and no issues. Don't have time to try another install and risk all the TM restore delays as my drive is big, and it took 12 hours or so since my only option from recovery mode was the whole drive restore.
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03-20-2013, 10:12 PM	#1
spinkb Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 5	Back to normal I was on vacation for a week. Sat down at machine, saw my notifier watching your site that it had changed, looked at it, and downloaded the new build. Time machine had been running while on vacation...so my last backup was 30 minutes before installing this beta. After restoring time machine, everything is back and working perfectly again. No kernel panics, no issues whatsoever. I restored to 30 minutes prior before installing the displaylink driver. I did delete the kexts definitely. I even did a touch on the extensions dir to make the OS rebuild the kextcache (there wasn't one.) I've never had issues with the displaylink drivers...this was my first issue. Before the restore, and after deleting kexts, the machine would kernel panic if the displaylink device was connected. Removing it allowed me to boot to a gray screen, no Finder...and not on the network. Couple of times it was and I could SSH into it. *************** My theory is that the first kernel panic caused file tree corruption. But even with booting in recovery mode on the OS, and repairing the disk using disk utility I never could get past gray screens at boot. Only with the TM restore were things OK. Back on a3, and no issues. Don't have time to try another install and risk all the TM restore delays as my drive is big, and it took 12 hours or so since my only option from recovery mode was the whole drive restore. ***************