[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] Brown Screen of Death

[Dave Koziol]

On Jan 8, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Kingsley Wright wrote:

> Sorry.. I guess I wasn't clear.. I understand what a kernel panic is.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this with missing  
> sync.    I don't think memory is to blame here, though I have seen  
> that in the past.  I will try to reproduce the behavior later...

The current version of Missing Sync for Windows Mobile has no code  
which runs inside the Kernel, so nothing we do from user space is  
supposed to be able to panic the kernel.   That said, clearly there  
can be bugs in Apple's code which allow things we do to panic the  
kernel, but in our experience they should be very rare.

If you get Kernel Panics which you think might be related to Missing  
Sync for Windows Mobile, I'd be interested in seeing them.  I won't  
promise to reply to them, but I can watch for patterns and if we see  
something happening to a number of users we can work with Apple to  
try to track down problems.

As others have mentioned, bad ram and usb hubs are potential sources  
of kernel panics, but anything on the USB bus is also potentially an  
issue as well.

Dave Koziol
Mark/Space, Inc.