Repeating Console Message - Significant?

I didn't migrate anything, and am getting the same message, so I think this was a problem as the devices were shipped.

I searched for 'batteryd" and nothing, so no.

I searched console messages, not for a file.

My parents new 13'' MacBook Air (late 2010) would not fall asleep. After resetting the SMC to no avail I checked the console and saw the exact same message. After deleting the plist and rebooting the machine it is falling asleep now.

I never installed any third-party program relating to the battery and there is a folder called /usr/local however there is no sub-folder libexec nor did a "locate" in Terminal find the daemon batteryd.

Came across a similar thread on the Japanese Apple discussion forum ( clicky). Since I cannot read Japanese I can only guess at what the various posts say. There seems to be talk about it being an Apple software related issue specifically regarding the HAL.

I checked on my MacBook Pro (mid 2010) and there is no such plist. Will check another 13'' MacBook Air when I get the chance.

My MacBook Air out of the box: no software other than Microsoft Office 2011 installed, had this problem. The file to remove or delete is /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.batteryd.plist.

In Terminal, type

sudo rm /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.batteryd.plist

Then enter your login password, and then you will need to reboot in Safe Mode (hold down the Shift key while restarting).

The batteryd.plist file itself is clearly nonsense: the contents certainly don't make sense. I expect that it is Apple's mistake in the image that they put on new Macbook Airs.

I'm going to use this thread for a similar topic, but it regards iStat.

I'm getting this group of messages constantly repeating every 5 seconds in the Console:

3/16/11 5:03:17 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.bjango.istatlocaldaemon[802]) posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocalDaemon", ...): No such file or directory
3/16/11 5:03:17 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.bjango.istatlocaldaemon[802]) Exited with exit code: 1
3/16/11 5:03:17 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.bjango.istatlocaldaemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
3/16/11 5:03:19 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[92] (com.bjango.istatlocal[803]) posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocal", ...): No such file or directory
3/16/11 5:03:19 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[92] (com.bjango.istatlocal[803]) Exited with exit code: 1
3/16/11 5:03:19 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[92] (com.bjango.istatlocal) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

I used to have iStat on my machine, but I deleted it using AppZapper a while back. I repair disk permissions every so often, so I'm not sure if it's a permissions issue. Is there still a file on my hard drive that I need to delete?

Message was edited by: Mr. Magoo

I am having kernel panics on my new Macbook Air. I got one a week ago and it started with the panics and I got a replacement but now this one is also doing it. It happens when I try to wake it from sleep every morning. I don't seem to have this battery file on my system at all. When I run a console report, I get this same message you are talking about here. I was going to try deleting the plist file but it's simply not there at all. Could this be the problem? The report shows it keeps trying to access that file but it keeps erroring.