Dear Blick, Felix, and WeatherCat troubleshooters,
Thanks Edouard. I followed your instructions and did find the appropriate log. I don't know what it means, but I copied the console messages from the last good upload until I woke it up a couple of hours later. It looks to me like the iMac went to sleep. Perhaps Stu can interpret the attached.
Hmm, that long string of entries that look like this:
Mar 13 12:48:18 MightyCraic-iMac kernel[0]: [0x524c51000, 0x14000]Make me wonder if this isn't some sort of kernel panic (serious crash of the core of the operating system.) Apparently it recovered since you were able to get your machine running again. I am puzzled. Normally the logs have the words:
"kernel panic" when there is one. On the other hand, spewing out a bunch of incomprehensible hexadecimal to the log files is definitely not something the kernel should be normally doing either.
I'll be interested to see what Stu thinks after he returns from the wilderness.
If it happens again, you might need to get some help from Apple. This could be some sort of a hardware problem.
Bummer dude, . . . . Edouard