Interesting Mac OS X error

Looks like a kernel panic in Verbose mode.

It's an old-style kernel panic report. When the kernel crashes, there's no way to log what happened ('cause logging requires a working filesystem, which is part of the kernel...), so OS X used to dump the crash info onto the screen buffer.

In OS X v10.2, they switched to a system where it stores the crash info into PRAM, and displays a message that "You need to restart your computer. Hold the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button." in 4 languages. After rebooting, the info is transferred from PRAM to a normal log file.

...but sometimes, for some reason, the old-style panic report still shows up under newer versions of OS X. I haven't seen this happen in a while, but apparently it's still possible under 10.6.6. I have no idea what causes it to revert to the old-style report (maybe verbose mode?).

See Apple's KB article #HT1392 for more details, and examples of the different panic styles.

EDIT: It occurs to me that it might've both written the crash info to the screen, and to PRAM and hence the log files. Check in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports and see if there's a matching panic report.

It's a kernel panic. Looks like a kernel extension with the bundle identifier "com.rogueamoeba.hermes" (Airfoil?) crashed.