{"id":116,"date":"2003-07-25T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T18:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/07\/25\/cripes-windowserver-just-crashed\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T21:53:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T02:53:33","slug":"cripes-windowserver-just-crashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/07\/25\/cripes-windowserver-just-crashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cripes!  WindowServer just crashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a28'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.  The WindowServer just bit the dust on my PowerBook.   That was the weirdest experience.  I wonder how many other people have watched their WindowServer die on them.   First, I&#8217;m typing then I see the little swirling circle at the bottom of the screen as if the computer is about to reboot.  Then the screen goes blue and then I&#8217;m watching as the Desktop slowly rebuilds itself sans all of my running apps.   Wonderful.   Then again I&#8217;ve had similar situations with Windows doing the exact same thing when Explorer just dies and needs to be kickstarted back to life.<\/p>\n<p>For the geek inclined here is a log courtesy of \/var\/log\/system.log:<\/p>\n<p>Jul 25 11:43:39 basho crashdump: Crash report written to: \/Users\/\/Library\/Logs\/CrashReporter\/WindowServer.crash.log<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:39 basho WindowServer[167]: Received fatal signal (11) at PC 0x90004288; exiting<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:39 basho mach_kernel: IOHIDSystem: doKickEventConsumer msg_send returned 268435459<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:39 basho \/usr\/libexec\/crashreporterd: task_set_exception_ports() failed: (os\/kern) invalid argument<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:42 basho crashdump: Crash report written to: \/Library\/Logs\/CrashReporter\/???.crash.log<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:42 basho \/usr\/libexec\/crashreporterd: exception_raise() failed forwarding exception: (os\/kern) invalid argument<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:42 basho \/usr\/libexec\/crashreporterd: newport: 2803 originalport: b07 thread: ffffffff task: a1b exception: 1<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:42 basho \/usr\/libexec\/crashreporterd: mach_msg() reply failed: (ipc\/send) invalid destination port<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:42 basho \/usr\/libexec\/crashreporterd: task_set_exception_ports() failed: (ipc\/send) invalid destination port<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:43 basho crashdump: Crash report written to: \/Library\/Logs\/CrashReporter\/???.crash.log<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:43 basho \/usr\/libexec\/crashreporterd: exception_raise() failed forwarding exception: (os\/kern) invalid argument<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:43 basho \/usr\/libexec\/crashreporterd: newport: 2803 originalport: b07 thread: ffffffff task: ffffffff exception: 1<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:43 basho \/usr\/libexec\/crashreporterd: mach_msg() reply failed: (ipc\/send) invalid destination port<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:43 basho \/usr\/libexec\/crashreporterd: task_set_exception_ports() failed: (ipc\/send) invalid destination port<br \/>\nJul 25 11:43:44 basho crashdump: Crash report written to: \/Library\/Logs\/CrashReporter\/???.crash.log<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheesh. The WindowServer just bit the dust on my PowerBook. That was the weirdest experience. I wonder how many other people have watched their WindowServer die on them. First, I&#8217;m typing then I see the little swirling circle at the bottom of the screen as if the computer is about to reboot. Then the screen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osx"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}