Involuntary reboot log 6.8

Network connection was spotty, so tried to turn off Wi-Fi and switch to tethering. Wi-Fi stayed on. Successively more apps started to beachball. Tried quitting as many as possible, but in the end even the clock stopped updating so I decided to do a hard reset.

This is my first involuntary reboot on Yosemite, and this machine is doing well, approaching the best MTBF I’ve had so far (currently at 37.875 days, previous record was 41.86 days).

Statistics so far

  • Failure type: hard reset
  • OS version: 10.10.1
  • Uptime at moment of failure: approximately 2 days
  • Kernel panics: 1
  • Hard resets: 7
  • Total failures: 8
  • Start of recording keeping: 21 January 2014
  • Total days to date: 303 days
  • Average time between failures: 37.875 days

Historical data

For comparison, previous generations of machines (from most oldest to most recent) that I’ve used have had averages of: