[Macpartners] Mac OS X 10.5.5 - PANIC reports

[Patrick M McNeal]

> Thank you for reporting this.  I have experienced a dramatic increase in system instability since upgrading to
> 10.5.5.  My MacBook Pro has crashed about a dozen times, most times during shutdown.  Any guidance
> from the group and/or IS&T would be most appreciated.

Do you by any chance use VirusScan?  We saw numerous problems with it on shutdown, and released a new version that addressed the issue.  Try installing the latest version, which can be downloaded from here:

https://wserv.mit.edu/fcgi-bin/softcount?product=mit/macos/mit-virusscan-8.6-r3.dmg

If that doesn't fix your problem, you also might want to try re-installing the 10.5.5 update using the combo package as described in my previous note.

If you continue seeing panics, send me the panic reports and associated log files, and we'll look into it further.

--Patrick
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Patrick McNeal
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
Client Support Services, Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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