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Console errors every 10 seconds?

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sman591

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Aug 6, 2009
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Hey there,

My MacBook pro's been on for almost 4 days now (normally gets shut down every night), and it's starting to freeze for 3-10 seconds every 5 minutes or so. I went into the console to see if any errors were popping up, and found that the following kept repeating every 10 seconds:

2/5/11 12:37:07 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[237] (tv.boxee.helper[61315]) Exited with exit code: 1
2/5/11 12:37:07 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[237] (tv.boxee.helper) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/5/11 12:37:17 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jft.PdaNetMac[61316]) posix_spawn("/Applications/PdaNetMac.app/Contents/MacOS/PdaNetMac", ...): No such file or directory
2/5/11 12:37:17 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jft.PdaNetMac[61316]) Exited with exit code: 1
2/5/11 12:37:17 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jft.PdaNetMac) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/5/11 12:37:17 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[237] (com.flipvideo.FlipShareAutoRun[61317]) posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/Flip Video/FlipShareAutoRun.app/Contents/MacOS/FlipShareAutoRun", ...): No such file or directory
2/5/11 12:37:17 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[237] (tv.boxee.helper[61318]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/Boxee/bin/boxeeservice", ...): No such file or directory
2/5/11 12:37:17 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[237] (com.flipvideo.FlipShareAutoRun[61317]) Exited with exit code: 1
2/5/11 12:37:17 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[237] (com.flipvideo.FlipShareAutoRun) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/5/11 12:37:17 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[237] (tv.boxee.helper[61318]) Exited with exit code: 1
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I'm not sure if this is leading to my freeze error, but I don't think these things are good (especially since they're showing up every 10 seconds). Is there a way to get rid of them, without reinstalling Mac OS X?
 
Yes you can.

Those are all LaunchAgents, so you can remove the launchd plists that launchd is using to (try to) start those processes.

I assume you got rid of some software recently? Namely Boxee, PdaNet and FlipVideo?

Here is where to look:
~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchAgents


Here is what to look for:
tv.boxee.helper.plist
com.jft.PdaNetMac.plist
com.flipvideo.FlipShareAutoRun

Here is what to do (choose one):
1. If you indeed do not have or want this software any more, remove those files and anything else related to that software here (they will follow the same reverse domain pattern).

2. If you still want this software, find out what happened to them. Did you accidentally delete them? Did you try to sort them in the Applications folder? Try to fix the issue (you can in the meantime time just move those plists to your Desktop while you sort it out).

3. If those applications have uninstallers, running it should clean those up for you, but it depends on how it was written as it may not like that the original Application itself is missing, but in general it should work.

Determine your course of action and report back if you have any trouble.
 
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okay, everything's working except for pdanetmac:

2/6/11 11:48:16 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jft.PdaNetMac[592]) posix_spawn("/Applications/PdaNetMac.app/Contents/MacOS/PdaNetMac", ...): No such file or directory
2/6/11 11:48:16 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jft.PdaNetMac[592]) Exited with exit code: 1
2/6/11 11:48:16 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jft.PdaNetMac) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
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I looked in /Library/LaunchAgents/, /Library/LaunchDaemons/, and ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ and couldn't find anything relating to pdanetmac. Would there be anything else on my computer that would start those errors?
 
sman591 said:
okay, everything's working except for pdanetmac:



I looked in /Library/LaunchAgents/, /Library/LaunchDaemons/, and ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ and couldn't find anything relating to pdanetmac. Would there be anything else on my computer that would start those errors?
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Try /Library/StartupItems

It is deprecated, but those who don't keep with the trends may still use it.
 
calderone said:
Try /Library/StartupItems

It is deprecated, but those who don't keep with the trends may still use it.
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Sorry, isn't there either. Would re-installing the app and deleting the files it creates work?
 
sman591 said:
Sorry, isn't there either. Would re-installing the app and deleting the files it creates work?
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I think the app comes with an uninstall script. To see if you have such a script, please open Terminal (in Utilities) and paste in the following. The press return.

Code: 
ls -l ~/Pda*

Post the output.
 
Output:

Code: 
ls: /Users/stuartn/Pda*: No such file or directory
 
sman591 said:
Output:

Code: 
ls: /Users/stuartn/Pda*: No such file or directory
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Oh well. So much for that. Is there any file in your Home that has a name like pdanet and a .sh suffix?

Google "uninstall pdanetmac" for more.
 
Looks like they decided to ignore best practice and they stuck it in

Code: 
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons

Not cool, but there you go.
 
calderone said:
Looks like they decided to ignore best practice and they stuck it in

Code: 
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons

Not cool, but there you go.
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Thanks! That got rid of it. I should have looked to see if that existed before...
 
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