Where will I locate the log for a kernel panic in OS X 10.9.2? (Apple site says "If a kernel panic occurs, information is added to a log file in the folder /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports (Mac OS X v10.6)) Can't find it.
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Are you having trouble finding the folder /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports itself, or have you found the folder, and can't find the file that is supposed to be in the folder?
There are other crash logs in ~/Library/Logs/Diagnostic Reports, which is in a different place on your Mac.
~/Library is hidden by default.
Trouble finding /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports. I entered /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports in Spotlight but no luck.
Ah. Spotlight is, by design, not good at finding System files, and I don't think it will find anything inputted like that.
Take a look in the Finder. / is your boot drive.
My / has four folders, Applications, Library, System, and Users.
/Library is the one you want.
Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder... and enter: /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports
Bob,
Thank you-that got me to the diagnostic reports. My difficulty now is I do not know where to look for info I can understand regarding what might be causing a "kernel panic".
When I research on Apple site, I see info that says following a panic, when the Mac restarts, there will be a message telling me of the software which triggered the panic. I have not seen that message.
John
Post the crashdump here, and maybe someone will reconize the cause, however, crashdumps are not easy to decode, and a lot of times they just say the kernel process paniced (which often means a 3rd party kernel extension was the cause, and in some situations, bad RAM, especially if new 3rd party RAM was recently installed, and very rarely Apple RAM, but mostly it is 3rd party kernel extensions).
You might also add a copy of the EtreCheck output which will list 3rd party additions, and someone may notice a problematic bit of code.
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The panic log has the word " panic" a few lines into the log, has a dump of the CPU registers, the backtrace, the loaded kexts, and your hardware configuration.
It will not tell you definitively what caused it. Select the entire log, copy it, and paste it here.
Crash dumps, spin logs, and application crash logs are of no value.
Where will I locate the log for a kernel panic in OS X 10.9.2? (Apple site says "If a kernel panic occurs, information is added to a log file in the folder /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports (Mac OS X v10.6) Can't find it.
