Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
hi,
a grey message box with an error sign keeps flashing randomly since weeks on my screen.
unfortunately it is to fast to be able to read anything. anyone an idea what the issue could be? or
macbook pro
os x 10.7.3 lion
2gh intel core i7
8 gb ram
logic studio 9
many thanks
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mine's been checked the whole time though. Now, I haven't had a pop-up (that I've seen) since yesterday at noon, so I'll reply again if at the end of today I've had no more. Thanks for your reply, and thanks for all the helpful posts there've been!
try turning on the stealth mode too and search for java preferences and click the "restore defaults" option
I have stealth mode enabled (I actually just enabled it this morning thinking I had had it on the entire time). If I still see the window pop up, then I will restore the Java Preferences defaults, although I really haven't changed them manually, except for logging them for debugging perpuses.
Of course, it popped up again. I restored the defaults just now, but the preferences remained the same.
I just repaired disk permissions on my hardrive, so maybe that will work (?).
I had to turn my firewall off in order to make that message go away. This website will confirm if the message has gone away http://javatester.org/version.html. Shutdown your browser and then restart it and navigate to that website.
Thanks. I haven't tried that, and really don't think I will, though, because I can't afford to turn my firewall off. However, I tried repairing the disk permissions on Macintosh HD, after restoring the defaults of Java Preferences, after blocking all incoming connections to Java for a minute or two and then turning it back on. I still saw the window after the first try, and am hoping that repairing the disk permissions has done the trick, as I have not seen it since repairing the disk permissions on Macintosh HD. Hopefully it won't pop up again.
There's another posibility. I have the same problem and after some digging in console showed this event log each time the message flashed.
[date time] com.apple.backupd-helper[48822]: Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup - time machine destination not resolvable.
Sorry I don't have a solution. 😟
Hello everyone! I came across something new!
After I switched on my Mac today, the bloody pop-up window actually stayed long enough to be able to read text content of it: It was asking if I want to allow incoming network connections for "ksfetch". I google the name but before I was able to click "no" within the pop-up window it was already gone again.
I came across a usefull post here in the forum, I followed the instrcutions and so far the pop-up window did not appeared again. (Maybe usefull to mention, I used the Terminal comand to delete the "googlesoftwareupdater" for the entire system.)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4046117?start=0&tstart=0
let's see I will let you know if it appears again..
I had that before and just switched over to manually backups through time machine and it was fine.
I was wondering if this problem is just me! I think it's related to Chrome or my Firewall but I don't which one or how to troubleshoot it. I have checked out my Firewall settings, and it's still happening. Any ideas on how I can isolate the problem/work out exactly what's going on?
search for java preferences and click the "restore defaults" option..i did this and in a couple of weeks or so it stopped. immediately after doing it..it may not pop up frequently.
Where do I search for java preferences?
warn message / pop-up window keeps randomly flashing up under os x
