Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Feb 2003 19:02 UTC
My CTX AMD K6-300/128 MB RAM/3 GB drive laptop is obviously at the end of its life. I was in the "shopping" process for a laptop for 2 months now, and I considered a number of PC laptops, including the Compaq Presario 1525US. At the end, I decided to get the new 12" Powerbook, came in last week, and I am since then using it as my primary machine. Here is what I think about it.
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The FTP was still going on, and after a few minutes, suddenly the machine gone to sleep (I use the default time settings for power energy). When we tried to bring the machine up, it wouldn't come up. Black screen, and nothing else. The caps lock was still working, so the machine was not completely crashed, but it wouldn't awake no matter what. So, we had to hard reset it again and then we got over the painful fsck time to clean up the filesystem (no, don't ask me to put the journaling on, it is still experiemental).
I experienced problems like this, on repeated occasions. Most of them can be traced to the fix_prebinding bug which has been been plaguing my OS X experience ever since I installed Jaguar.
I have a habit of manually turning off my iBook's LCD backlight when I'm not using it (by holding down F1 until the backlight turns off) Sometimes I'll do this, leave for several hours, and come back and try to bring the backlight back up, only to find the system completely unresponsive. One night I came back, attempted to turn it back on, found it unresponsive, and so I went to sleep.
The next morning, I hit a random key on the iBook, and found the iBook's backlight had come back on. However, the system was completely frozen. The spinning beach ball was no longer spinning, but locked in the middle of the screen. Up in the corner the clock had locked at the exact time I had tried to bring the backlight up the night before.
I looked in /Libary/Logs/CrashReporter, and sure enough there was a new crash listed in fix_prebinding.crash.log, at the exact time I had tried to bring the backlight up, and one which had occured earlier that night.
The worst I've seen from a fix_prebinding crash cascade was being completely unable to even power up my iBook again. I was forced to unplug my iBook, remove the battery, plug it in without a battery, power it back up, power it off, then replace the battery.
Apple still contends that fix_prebinding related bugs aren't a bug in their software, but bugs in the software of 3rd party vendors whose software fix_prebinding is being ran on. This attitude is what frustrates me more than anything else, and I have been asking on the forums for a way to disable fix_prebinding if nothing else, and haven't received a response.
Eugenia, I suggest you look in /Library/Logs/CrashReporter and see if you can find a fix_prebinding crash which occured when you were transferring that file. At least then you can verify if that was the cause of the problem.