3186 and unexpected shutdowns

greg1075 said:
I have one question and one question only. Do the unexpected shutdowns persist in 3186? It is a the latest official release and not a beta, right. If the problem is not fixed, I'm switching to Fusion. Thanks in advance.
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no not since I got off the beta stuff

may be twice in 6 months then

Hugh W
 
Well, I specifically stayed away from the beta's and upgraded when it went GA (3186) from 1970. Now I am getting spontaneous crashes. Again, no beta's between.

This definitely irks me.
 
steve said:
Well, I specifically stayed away from the beta's and upgraded when it went GA (3186) from 1970. Now I am getting spontaneous crashes. Again, no beta's between.

This definitely irks me.
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I'm not surprised. First I didn't think that "most" people experiencing crashes with 3186 had run betas prior. Just like I don't believe that 3186 crashing - for those who did upgrade from a beta version - has anything to do previous those betas leaving any remnants or "bad files" or whatever you want to call it...nor do I think that upgrading any programme from a beta version should pose any problem. This is all bull if you ask me. Stability has been a growing issue since 1970, plain and simple. And as for as I am concerned, if you don't have that basic quality in a computer programme, you don't have a product.
 
Count me in. I'm just like Steve, I avoided the betas completely and upgraded directly from 1970 to 3186, making sure to upgrade the tools as well. I have now crashed twice in 3186, just quits completely, no warning at all. It NEVER crashed in 1970.

Both crashes seemed to be javascript-related. Both times I was running a browser (Firefox once, IE7 once) and clicked on a javascript function on a web page (one automated popup, one graphical list button), and boom! No more Parallels. Knock on wood, I've restarted and the VM seems fine.

I will send this to support.

Mark
 
I have experienced 3 kernal panics and at least two sudden shutdowns.

The only common thread that I can see is that I was starting up the VM in coherence mode.
If I start up the VM in windowed mode, it seems a lot more stable, even if I later switch to coherence. I am not sure if this is the solution, but I'll stick with it until I see a better idea.
 
A javascript dependency to your problems points heavily towards a messed up windows install. Perhaps it is coincidence that it happened at same time you upgraded, maybe something went wrong during the upgrade unrelated to parallels. A tactic that might be worth your time is to save a copy of the whole VM immeditally after a fresh windows install (and updates) so that you can easily do clean tests.
 
I just crashed a third time today, also running a web page with heavy javascript in IE7. Also the first crash was in coherence mode, but second and third have been in windowed mode. I don't think it has anything to do with coherence. I can't wait until I am outside this firewall and can access the pages I need from the Mac side. I'm avoiding web pages in Windows like the plague now.
 
I upgraded from 1848 directly to 3186. I have not noticed any problems in any mode except that the start menu does not work from the dock icon. I upgraded (today) to 3188. In each case the upgrade went smoothly, I was prompted to update the Parallel Tools, and the apps all seem to work well.

Most of what I do is database and web application development so I only run Windows browsers for testing purposes. I can't say that anything has crashed more often on my Mac than on any of my Windows desktop PCs.

I know this doesn't help solve many peoples problems, but I can attest to a stable 3186-3188 platform.
 
paralles quit and I lost few applications forever

Since I installed 3188 parallels quit and the runnig application with it. I have to reinstall this application again. The best version was built 3170 and i regret to make the proppsed upgrades. My ram is just 312Mb and when I want to increase it the system told me 312 is the max. I have 2Gb ram on my imac

i'll appreciate some advices
 
BenInBlack said:
I had crashing issues similar until I did manual uninstall of Parallel Tools and Reinstall.
I made sure that when i did this upgrade that auto coherence mode was off.

Not sure if it did anything or just made me feel better, but regular crashing stopped.

I also have set my memory to fixed amount and not auto adjust.
I also don't have parallels start in coherence mode it is trivial to switch it, I have startup programs in XP that would kick it to full anyway on startup so the flickering was annoying.

Once XP is started I switch to coherence and leave it. I have not shut it off since 3186 came out.
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What do you mean by manual uninstall and reinstall? Is this different than uninstalling from Add/Remove Programs and installing from the Actions menu of Parallels? Also, how do you turn the auto coherence mode off, and how do you restart it?
 
harry33 said:
Since I installed 3188 parallels quit and the runnig application with it. I have to reinstall this application again. The best version was built 3170 and i regret to make the proppsed upgrades. My ram is just 312Mb and when I want to increase it the system told me 312 is the max. I have 2Gb ram on my imac

i'll appreciate some advices
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Try tidying up your computer with a utility like Onyx.
 
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