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Re: dual quad crashing

Jonathan Sanderson — 2008-08-30T09:54:54

My keychain is on its fourth Mac, and it must date back to 10.2 at least. It's migrated from a Powerbook G3 to a Power Mac G4, a Powerbook G4, and it's now on a MacBook Pro. I have to authenticate/ unlock it for whichever application first requests access to it (usually Mail), but I see that as a positive rather than negative issue. Everything works fine. Sorry. Perhaps poke around with Keychain Access and see if there's something that would keep this one unlocked?

dual quad crashing

Kevin Callahan — 2008-08-30T00:21:26

I have had more than my fair share of crashes with my DUAL It seems most often it happens when I've selected something in iTunes. This time, I was playing back a Stravinsky file that I'd purchased from iTunes and the music just stopped, the beachball appeared .. and eventually, I lost all control of my machine: some apps I can bring to front, but things like FINDER, Terminal and others are lifeless. I always have to reboot. Every time I look in the Console for around the time of the crash, I see the launching of /usr/sbin/ocspd in this case, the crash or lockup happened around 5:03 or 5:04 (see image in this email) i think this has something to do with opening my keychain .. perhaps it was when iTunes was verifying the protected file I was playing ? hard to say, since the file was already playing some 20 seconds before the lockup. My system was most of the way through a 1.5 Gig Time Machine backup when it occurred (and I let that time machine backup complete before I rebooted) WHen I set up my dual, I moved some keychains over from my MBPro. Instead of importing or combining the keychains I already had running on my Dual, I added the MBPro keychain as another keychain. I could be way off base here, but I think it's somehow related. Usually, when I reboot my machine and if I launch Mail, or Skype, I get a popup panel asking if the app can have access to a keychain. I never had this issue on any other machine prior to this Dual. Thoughts ? K _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk-sc6jspJ1wlD3oGB3hsPCZA< at >public.gmane.org http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Re: Time Machine errors

Gregg Dinse — 2008-08-29T18:26:10

Hi Russ and Matt, Thanks for the information. I guess I won't worry about this problem, in the sense that it is not unique to me and neither of you have noticed any corruption of the existing TM backups. Thanks, Gregg On 29 Aug 2008, at 12:44 PM, Matt Penna wrote: On 29 Aug 2008, at 12:33 PM, R.L. Grigg wrote:

Re: Time Machine errors

Gregg Dinse — 2008-08-29T18:28:57

Re: Time Machine errors

Matt Penna — 2008-08-29T16:44:48

Gregg, This came up on the list previously. I have had this problem, as have a number of others on the list. I believe I first started seeing this in 10.5.3 and it was not fixed in 10.5.4. Backups appear unaffected, except of course for the one that does not complete. I have not noticed any corruption or difficulties with any of the other backups. Looks like an OS bug, and I'm hoping for a fix in 10.5.5. Matt

Re: Time Machine errors

R.L. Grigg — 2008-08-29T16:33:22

On Aug 29, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Gregg Dinse wrote: Relax! In my expereience your not alone. Ive seen this on every machine we have that runs TM. Yes, this is "normal" (happens often). Ive never seen a difinitive explanation for it. I suspect its a locked file it cant backup. Why it STOPS the backup is beyond wonder. Never noticed any corruption in the backups but it doesnt engender confidence, does it. The next backup always seems to work though. Russ

Time Machine errors

Gregg Dinse — 2008-08-29T16:25:15

Hi, I have had Time Machine running for about 6-8 months on 2 computers. In the last month or so, I get an error panel once in a while, say every 4-7 days or so. The error panel says: Time Machine Error. Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume. After getting this message, I go to the Time Machine icon in the menu bar and tell it to do an immediate backup. This seems to work without an error. This has happened on both an iMac with the backup going to an external FW drive and on a PowerMac with the backup going to an internal SATA drive. Is this normal? If so, what causes it? If it's not normal, do you think it's a software or hardware problem? Is it likely (or unlikely) that my Time Machine backups are corrupted in some way? Thanks, Gregg

RE: Bandwidth Counter

Thomas R. Baley — 2008-08-29T16:08:33

Try SurplusMeter from skoobysoft. Does billing periods, daily, remaining, and lots more. Free. Sorry I am on ny mobile right now & the URL is long. Tom Baley tbaley-ee4meeAH724< at >public.gmane.org -----Original Message----- From: John Musbach public.gmane.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:59 PM To: MacOSX-talk-sc6jspJ1wlD3oGB3hsPCZA< at >public.gmane.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth Counter On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Paul Sargent public.gmane.org> wrote: Try Activity Monitor>Network tab

Re: USB HDs

Charles Dyer — 2008-08-29T02:57:09

Not really. My Time Machine backup is to a USB drive. Works fine. Has worked fine since I first started up Time Machine, shortly after I installed Leopard. To be sure the initial backup took Forever And A Day™, but once that was done, no more problems.

Re: USB HDs

Scott Lewis — 2008-08-29T02:49:05

I've had a lot of drives through the years, Firewire and USB, big name case+drives plus a few no name cases that I installed my own drives in. I've had no drive failures (even though most have no fans), but I have had two cases fail (one power supply, one controller card). Neither of those two failures crashed my Mac, just left the drive unmountable. Moving the drive to a new case worked fine in both cases, no data loss. My father, however, has had some issues. He never kernel panicked, but has had an issue where his Mac just plain wouldn't boot until he unplugged "all his USB devices" (his words) and then the grey screen turned into the boot screen, and it came right up. He had 3 four port USB hubs, none powered, and two chained together. Replaced it with one name brand 7 port hub and the problem went away. Long story short - if you have any cheap USB hubs try powering them or replacing them. On Aug 28, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Stefano Mori wrote:

podcasts won't sync to Shuffles

list boy — 2008-08-28T22:27:55

Just following up on a question I posted a few ago Was having inability getting a new Shuffle to sync podcasts w/ iTunes Found this bad news: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1831 podcasts can't be synced to Shuffles. I'm guess I'm curious as to why that would be a necessary limitation. Seems arbitrary.

iTunes store problem right now?

Kevin Callahan — 2008-08-28T22:23:50

Are others having a problem purchasing from the iTunes store right now? I'm just trying to download a free iP**ne app and I'm getting an alert about a store problem with credit. ? K

USB HDs

Stefano Mori — 2008-08-28T21:30:52

Hi All, Are HDs connected via USB particularly unstable? I don't usually use them but lately, two different HDs, connected to two different Macs which are normally on all the time, in different locations, using USB, and come back four days later, and they're both frozen/panicked. Coincidence or expected? Stefano

Message when repairing access rights

Rudolf O. Durrer — 2008-08-27T17:56:58

I run disk utilitiy to repair access rights. Often, I get a message, I do not understand the meaning (not b'cause it's German...): "Die Zugriffssteuerungsliste wurde gefunden, jedoch nicht für „private/var/root“ erwartet.", which translates into something like: "The access rights list had been found, but for „private/var/root“ not expected". No action (ignoring, repairing or so) is signalled. This happens for several folders. Do I have to care about that? Rudolf

Re: Permissions and the Shared Folder.. again.. (Tiger)

Jared Earle — 2008-08-27T21:06:45

This is where sudo comes in. You can specify one command and use NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers meaning you can have one command run as root without any prompting.

Re: Permissions and the Shared Folder.. again.. (Tiger)

steve harley — 2008-08-27T16:42:50

the main problem i can foresee setting privileges via a folder action (using do shell script) is that to do it with administrator privileges, a password is required; if the password is not hard-coded, a dialog will come up, which might be obtrusive; also when you say "shared folder" i assume you mean a folder on a single machine that may be used by different people logged into different accounts; i believe folder actions are user-specific, so one would have to investigate how they behave in a multi-user situation so while a cron/launchd solution might be cleaner, here is an untested script; note the commented part of the main action line, which you can use to hard-code the password on adding folder items to a_folder after receiving some_items set user_name to do shell script "id -un" try repeat with an_item in some_items set the_path to quoted form of posix path of contents of an_item do shell script "chmod 770 " & the_path user name user_name with administrator privileges -- password "mypasswordhere" end end end

Re: Bandwidth Counter

John Musbach — 2008-08-26T23:59:35

Try Activity Monitor>Network tab

Re: Vaccines and Autism.

LuKreme — 2008-08-26T20:28:41

And there are more cockroaches in the world than humans, and more biomass around the undersea vents than the rest of the world's biomass combined. The number of uninformed, unscientific, unschooled, and unread people who BELIEVE something is true has nothing to do with whether or not it is. As I've told my kids many times, "Reality is everything that is still there even if you don't believe in it." Replied to mostly to redirect followups to nutters.

Vaccines and Autism.

Candy Eve, The Task Force — 2008-08-26T19:38:10

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Re: Bandwidth Counter

steve harley — 2008-08-26T18:11:54

in my experience, Rosetta inflicts a memory usage hit as well; and Intel apps need more memory per app anyway, so where i used to do okay with 1.25 GB on PPC, i now feel confined by 3GB on my Core2Duo (and often get up to 2-3GB of swap)

Re: Bandwidth Counter

Paul Sargent — 2008-08-26T15:49:38

On 26 Aug 2008, at 15:15, Ashley Aitken wrote: I try to keep my machines clear of anything running through rosetta as I've found just having a single PPC process on the machine puts quite a large load on the machine (think battery life). Adding more after that first one doesn't make much difference, but that first PPC process "feels" like a large hit. Rosetta is great, but I want to use it as little as possible. Paul