Boot messages on Leopard 10.5.1

[Axel Luttgens]

On 24/11/07 11:06, Markus Ruggiero wrote:

> During boot my MacBook pro with 10.5.1 writes lots of messages into  
> system.log. Usually I don't care much but this morning I was trying 
> to  track some other problems and noted many error messages (errors 
> during  boot?) that I 'd like to unterstand better. Anyone out there 
> able to  shed some light? Do these messages point to real problems or 
> is this  just some background noise?
>
> Btw: the system is an "archive and install" type upgrade from Tiger  
> 10.4.10
>
> Here are just the relevant messages. The full context can be found  
> further down:


Hello Markus,

Please find some comments hereafter.

> ...
> 24.11.07 09:13:23 com.apple.SystemStarter[32] /Library/StartupItems/ 
> Firewall/Firewall: line 15: /usr/libexec/ipfwloggerd: No such file or  
> directory 


Looks like you installed some firewall utility under Tiger: this message 
relates to SystemStarter launching an item from /Library/StartupItems, a 
location typical for non-Apple software.
On the other hand, it seems that ipfwloggerd doesn't come with Leopard 
anymore; as the firewalling mechanisms have been fully revamped with 
Leopard, it would be a good idea to move folder Firewall out of 
/L/StartupItems anyway.

> ...
> 24.11.07 09:14:06 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.distccdConfigd)  
> Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
> 24.11.07 09:14:06 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd) Unknown 
> key:  SHAuthorizationRight
> 24.11.07 09:14:06 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd) Unknown key:  
> SHAuthorizationRight
> 24.11.07 09:14:06 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd) Unknown key:  
> SHAuthorizationRight
> 24.11.07 09:14:08 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.openssh.sshd) Unknown 
> key:  SHAuthorizationRight


Above messages are written by launchd, telling us that it doesn't 
understand a key "SHAuthorizationRight" encountered into some plists.
For example, such a key may be found in following plist:
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.distccdConfig.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dnbobserver.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dnbvolunteer.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.efax.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/distccd.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/eppc.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cups-lpd.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cupsd.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/org.ntp.ntpd.plist
    /S/L/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist
Such messages seem to be of the informative kind, and don't hinder the 
corresponding service to be activated by launchd.
I don't know why such "SHAuthorizationRight" keys (no appearance in the 
currently published source code for Leopard); unless otherwise told, I 
would just ignore them.


> 24.11.07 09:14:13 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.distccdConfigd[43])  
> Exited with exit code: 255


This one is related to XCode's distributed builds feature.
Looks like you haven't configured it to be running; so, it just quits.


> 24.11.07 09:14:18 org.ntp.ntpd[26] Error : nodename nor servname  
> provided, or not known


Have you configured network time in the Date and Time preference pane?


> ...
> 24.11.07 09:14:19 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[51] Can't open lease  
> database /var/db/vmware/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.leases: No such file or  
> directory -- check for failed database rewrite attempt!
> 24.11.07 09:14:19 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[51] Please read the  
> dhcpd.leases manual page if you.
> 24.11.07 09:14:19 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[51] don't know what to do  
> about this.
> 24.11.07 09:14:19 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[51] exiting.
> 24.11.07 09:14:19 com.apple.launchd[1] 
> (com.vmware.launchd.vmware[51])  Exited with exit code: 1


It seems you have installed a VMware product, but that it needs some 
additional reconfiguration since the upgrade to Leopard.

> ...
> 24.11.07 09:14:23 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10ce80.nohup[125]) Could 
> not  setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access
> 24.11.07 09:14:23 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10ce80.nohup[131]) Could 
> not  setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access
> 24.11.07 09:14:24 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10d4b0.nohup[139]) Could 
> not  setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access


Difficult to tell without more info, but I would tend to relate those 
message to some other failures (VMware?).

> 24.11.07 09:14:24 com.apple.SystemStarter[31] /Library/StartupItems/ 
> Parallels/Parallels: line 62: /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/ 
> CiscoVPN: No such file or directory


That's Parallels initialization procedure being a bit harsh: instead of 
checking whether you have installed Cisco's VPN client, it just tries to 
restart it.
No problem here, thus.

>
> 24.11.07 09:14:41 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent- 
> LoginWindow[158]) Exited: Terminated
> 24.11.07 09:14:45 com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[179] launchctl:  
> Error unloading: com.apple.FolderActions.folders
> 24.11.07 09:15:03 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] BootCacheControl:  
> could not fetch history: Cannot allocate memory
> 24.11.07 09:15:03 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] BootCacheControl:  
> could not stop cache/fetch history: Cannot allocate memory
> ...
> 24.11.07 09:28:30 com.apple.launchd[172] (0x10de70.Locum[281]) 
> Exited:  Terminated


These messages do not seem to be part of the startup sequence, but to 
have been emitted after login.

HTH,
Axel

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