System Preferences -> Network Not Loading

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System Preferences -> Network Not Loading

Hi,

I've a OS X 10.6.2 for a week now, and my Network Preference Pane wouldn't load all of a sudden. The last time I changeed it was the other day where I removed some wireless networks.

When I load the network pref pane, it just says "Loading Network..."

I created another user to check if it's just my user account, but it has the same problem too. So I would think it's a system-wide setting that went wrong.

My console log has the following whenever I try to open the pref pane:
11/24/09 11:05:52 AM System Preferences[1586] * Assertion failure in -[NSMenuItem initWithTitle:action:keyEquivalent:], /SourceCache/AppKit/AppKit-1038.25/Menus.subproj/NSMenuItem.m:270
11/24/09 11:05:52 AM System Preferences[1586] Invalid parameter not satisfying: aString != nil

Must be a setting in the plist, I just don't know which one, and how do I get that plist back without a time machine backup.

Please help, I've been all around the web and the discussions and can't find a solution to this one.

Thanks.

MBP 15", Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Nov 23, 2009 7:08 PM

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Answer 1

K T

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Nov 23, 2009 7:15 PM in response to Andrew Ang

Hello Andrew & welcome to discussions...

Try deleting the com.apple.systempreferences.plist

~/Library/Preferences.

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Andrew Ang Author

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Nov 24, 2009 2:18 AM in response to K T

Just tried it, it did not work. Same problem. 😟

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Andrew Ang Author

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Nov 25, 2009 3:42 AM in response to Andrew Ang

bump on this one

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nln3

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Nov 25, 2009 10:33 AM in response to Andrew Ang

Andrew,
Any luck with this issue? I have the exact same problem. Thanks for the response.

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Nov 26, 2009 11:28 AM in response to nln3

Bump again.. the same thing is happening to me. Any luck?

I notice that the problem is restricted to just my user account. So it isn't a system wide setting that is causing the problem.

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Nov 26, 2009 2:25 PM in response to Andrew Ang

Andrew Ang wrote:
Must be a setting in the plist, I just don't know which one, and how do I get that plist back without a time machine backup.

If a user plist, then it should regenerate itself.

And, you could:

1. Repair disk using your install DVD.
2. Try [resetting your PRAM/NVRAM|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379?viewlocale=en_US].
3. Reinstall 10.6 using you Sno install DVD by installing Sno over Sno using the upgrade method. Test your system after returning to 10.6. If is good there, then you may not want to install the updates, .6.1 and .6.2. But, if you do, then use the only the [combo updater to do so|http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959].

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Andrew Ang Author

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Nov 26, 2009 5:01 PM in response to donv_the_ghost

Wow... that much of a hassle?

Ok, i'll try that. I've already tried resetting the pram before I even posted and it did not work. I'll try repairing it.

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Andrew Ang Author

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Nov 26, 2009 9:46 PM in response to Andrew Ang

After looking through my system, I've found the problematic plist file. Apparently it's the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

Deleting this would load the network settings, but then everything in there is now deleted! 😟

Still looking through which of the setting xml setting is wrong! ugh!

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Andrew Ang Author

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Nov 26, 2009 10:14 PM in response to Andrew Ang

Ok, apparently, it was the preferences.plist.

So the only way I had to fix this properly was to copy the same file from a colleague, I backed up my file. Replaced my file with the one I got, then opened network preferences... and tah-dah... It's ok...

The thing is, all his settings are copied into mine, so I had to delete the settings and re-do my settings again.

No idea why this happened.

Fix please apple.

Btw, I get this in the console log now:

.scriptSuite warning for result type of command 'timedLoad' in suite 'SystemPreferences': the type NSNumber ('long') doesn't match the result Apple event code ('doub').

Better than the previous error though! =)

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kudresov

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Dec 1, 2009 4:06 PM in response to Andrew Ang

what worked for me is moving /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguratio apart and restarting system. After restart it worked perfectly, except some data from "network Preferences" was lost

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dha22

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Dec 9, 2009 3:00 AM in response to kudresov

I have had exactly the same problem with the network not loading in system preferences. I am using a macbook pro running OSX 10.6.2. As an alternative to the suggestions made here I have tried running repair disk permissions several times and each time it brought up the same thing: Permissions differ on "usr/share/derby", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x ." It then apparently repairs the problem but it produces the same message each time: "Repaired usr/share/derby". I realise this might have nothing to do with the network problem.
In my case the problem seemed to happen when I logged on first thing thing this morning and Time Capsule was unable to connect to the internet. It requested a network password but then restarted before I put in the necessary password. The wireless network is operating I just can't bring up the network in preferences and I don't like the sound of the various solutions that have been tried because I'm not sure what data or settings I will lose. Any other suggestions would be most welcome.

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Answer 12

Dec 9, 2009 11:15 AM in response to dha22

i had the exact same problem this is not a isolated incident and it is brought on by installing the
OS X 10.6.2 update

doing a disk repair on file permissions or doing a reinstall of snow leopard on top did not work.

i can recreate this problem just by installing the 10.6.2 update at the moment. i have recreated the problem twice by doing complete new installs and then applying the 10.6.2 update.

system preferences will load just fine but when you click on network under internet and wireless you can get no further. at the top of system preferences it says "loading network"

this problem really needs to be fixed as network is an essential area that we need to access.

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dha22

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Dec 9, 2009 2:12 PM in response to oblivionsss

Thanks for the information. At least I know what it is now. Maybe Apple will fix it as a Christmas present.

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Hercot

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Dec 9, 2009 3:30 PM in response to dha22

That's happening to me, can't connect via Wireless, just ethernet, but can't open the network preferences, it ocurred today after I installed a couple of updated -the Java for mac OS 10.6.2 Update 1 and the Airport Client Update 2009-002-

Any suggestions to fix this?

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Answer 15

Feb 15, 2010 7:35 AM in response to Hercot

I'm having the same problem and have tried deleting the systempreferences.plist file, but it didn't help. Has anyone figured out the solution?

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