Strange message
Looking at Console I see very long strings of the same thing, "waiting the veneer insert" Can anyone explain this please?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
Looking at Console I see very long strings of the same thing, "waiting the veneer insert" Can anyone explain this please?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
I think it is a log message from some third-party software you installed. If you really want to find out post the filenames from the following folders. Perhaps it can be narrowed down from these.
your Accounts login items
~/Library/LaunchAgents (i.e., in your home directory)
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/StartupItems
I looked in all the places you mentioned and didn't see anything so unusual. I did however notice looking back at the console log that the first message in the list is often "insert ! !" or "nsert !" or " (C) 2004_2008 HUAWEI Technologies Co. , Ltd. All rights reserved. " I'm beginning to think it's coming from a T-Mobile hotspot device I returned. I bet I didn't remove all the software bits and pieces. I'll look and see what I can find.
Thanks for the tip.
If you post what I asked I might be able to tell you. There may be other pieces floating around but the directories I mentioned would contain the key pieces that would cause the errant software to execute.
Which would be great if the OP knew what he was looking for!
OK, in my user library Launch Agents I have Apple CS config.me . In the system library Launch Agents there are plist files from edu.mit.Kerberos.CCache server, and KerberosAgent and openbsd.ssh-agent org.x.startx. little snitch, adobe, wacom, macosforge X , USB snapper. In Launch Daemons,
at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist: com.apple.third_party_32b_kext_logger.plist com.barebones.textwrangler.plist com.bresink.system.securityagent3.plist, de.jinx.SmartSleepDaemon.plist, Under System/Library/StartupItems there isn't anything in the folder. I can see if invisible files are there and they aren't.
In System/Library/Launch Daemons I have: at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist com.apple.third_party_32b_kext_logger.plist, com.barebones.textwrangler.plist, com.bresink.system.securityagent3.plist, de.jinx.SmartSleepDaemon.plist
What are you looking for? I sure don't understand how plist files can be causing this strange string to generate over and over. I mean, "waiting the veneer insert" repeating 500 times and then fifteen minutes later doing the same thing again just seems a waste of resources.
Yes I do use easyfind since spotlight isn't very useful. It's a good tip.
Quick reply -- they are not just plists in the preference sense (although they are xml files like most plists). These are files which are looked at boot time which direct various agents and daemons to execute as part of the boot process.
That was a quick reply because I'm still looking at the items you listed.
That description of your agents and daemons is hard to follow. So instead use terminal and post the output from the following four commands (cut/paste them into terminal). Just post the terminal output.
ls -l ~/Library/LaunchAgents
ls -l /Library/LaunchAgents
ls -l /Library/LauncDaemons
ls -l /Library/StartupItems
I guess that because I see the Huawei copyright piece at the start of the repeating string every third time or so and because the original "hotspot" had some very poor firmware which allowed the new owner to change the hotspot's name and password once and then locked them out for ever... really, the help desk response was to advise me to return the unit and continue doing so until I got a "good one", well that just didn't inspire confidence in Huawei. So I want to find my solution at their door but they aren't represented so far as I can recognize in the .plist files or in the launch agents.
If you are so adament about posting the listings I asked for I can't be of any further help.
ls -l ~/Library/LaunchAgents: Mar 31 2010 com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-#####@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist
ls -l /Library/LaunchAgents
total 24
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 460 Aug 26 14:55 at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 437 Aug 26 14:55 at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 591 Apr 8 2010 com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager.plist
ls -l /Library/LauncDaemons
ls -l /Library/LauncDaemons
ls: /Library/LauncDaemons: No such file or directory
ls -l /Library/StartupItems
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Nov 10 17:23 HWPortDetect_driver
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Nov 10 17:23 HW_CreateNetwork
hardly adament, merely tardy.
Remove the two items in /Library/StartupItems and I think your "strange message" will no longer be reported in the log.
Reboot after removal. Just taking them out of StarupItems is sufficient. Whether you trash them or not is your choice.
D@mn, I made a typo, so for the sake of completeness:
ls -l /Library/LaunchDaemons
I left the "h" out of LaunchDaemons. Just want to make sure what's in there but I pretty sure its the StartupItems that are the problem.
Based on that HWPortDetect_driver you have in StartupItems I did a little google searching and found a page that documents on hpw to remove all the other stuff that would have been installed when it was installed. Basically here's the other stuff that page mentions:
/Library/Modem Scripts/HUAWEI Mobile Connect - 3G Modem
/System/Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/USBExpressCardCanWake_Huawei.kext
Strange message