Mountain lion: calendar not showing the current date at startup. It's normal?

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Mountain lion: calendar not showing the current date at startup. It's normal?

Hi,

I recently did a clean install to ML (i was using SL before) and i came across a strange issue related to calendar. After the apple logo on startup, dock calendar icon shows at first the July 17th and then the current date.

I'm running a MBP 8,1 (2011) 4gb RAMm, 2,7 GHz i7.

PS. not sure if this important to the thread but on startup after the sppining wheel stops (on apple logo) the mouse coursor appears and i'm able to move him. it takes 10-15 seconds to enter to desktop.

Thanks in advance!

Posted on Nov 7, 2012 4:55 AM

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Answer 1

Xagothan Author

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Nov 7, 2012 4:57 AM in response to Xagothan

EtreCheck diagnostic: (Thanks to etresoft)

Hardware Information:

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1

1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores

4 GB RAM

System Software:

OS X 10.8.2 (12C60) - Uptime: 0 days 2:3

Disk Information:

TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500,11 GB)

disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB

Macinstosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499,25 GB (446,44 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N

USB Information:

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

FireWire Information:

Kernel Extensions:

Problem System Launch Daemons:

[failed] com.apple.xprotectupdater.plist

Problem System Launch Agents:

[failed] com.apple.afpstat.plist

[failed] com.apple.mrt.uiagent.plist

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

Launch Agents:

User Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

User Login Items:

None

3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player

Internet Plug-ins:

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

Bad Fonts:

None

Top Processes:

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Answer 2

etresoft

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Nov 7, 2012 8:28 AM in response to Xagothan

You seem to have omitted the top processes from the output. Aside from that missing information, nothing looks amiss. Has your new install finished the initial spotlight index? It is normal for icons such as Calendar to start off with their default versions and then take on a more dynamic characters when quicklook kicks in. Is your machine behaving differently from other machines you have seen?

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Answer 3

Xagothan Author

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Nov 7, 2012 8:36 AM in response to etresoft

etresoft wrote:

You seem to have omitted the top processes from the output.

Sorry i did not understand what you mean with this.

Those failures plist are something to not worry about?

Yes, the spotlight index is finished.

Frankly, i didn't see any machine works with ML 😐

The only issue (aside the calendar, that you said is normal) what looks odd to me is the apple logo on startup with the mouse cursor after the spinnig wheel and before desktop. Maybe it's normal, but i'm used to speed boot in SL 🙂

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Answer 4

etresoft

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Nov 7, 2012 10:10 AM in response to Xagothan

Those failures are expected. There aren't any unexpected failures or any "red flag" items listed. There should have been a listing of top processes included in the EtreCheck output. You can run Activity Monitor, showing All Processes and sorting by CPU to see them.

By default, Mountain Lion restarts any applications that had been running when you last logged in. The system can be quite unresponsive during this process. A solution is to simply not logout or restart very often.

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Answer 5

Xagothan Author

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Nov 8, 2012 4:40 AM in response to etresoft

Cannot understand why ML does that since i log out with restore last session unchecked and i don't have loggin items in Users&Groups...

Thanks for your patience etresoft!

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Answer 6

etresoft

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Nov 8, 2012 4:59 AM in response to Xagothan

You can run Console.app and look at system messages that appear during startup. Watch the calendar and notice when it changes. Then find a corresponding time in the log. Hopefully, there will be some identifiable gap in time that has an associated error message.

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Answer 7

Xagothan Author

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Nov 8, 2012 3:44 PM in response to etresoft

The calendar changed at 23:39:49. There's nothing on console with that time. The close i can get is:

08/11/12 23:39:47,414 SystemUIServer[141]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.

08/11/12 23:39:47,415 SystemUIServer[141]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.

08/11/12 23:39:50,004 awacsd[58]: Exiting

08/11/12 23:39:50,506 com.apple.SecurityServer[18]: Session 100008 created

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Answer 8

etresoft

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Nov 8, 2012 4:54 PM in response to Xagothan

The only thing I can think of is a problematic QuickLook plug-in. In the Finder, select Go > hold down option key > Library > QuickLook. Move everything in that folder to your desktop. Then reboot.

If that doesn't do it, you can try Finder > Go to Folder > "/Library/QuickLook" and move those aside too. Reboot.

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Answer 9

Xagothan Author

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Nov 8, 2012 5:36 PM in response to etresoft

Don't have a QuickLook folder in Username/Library...

But i was able to move the files from Finder > Go to Folder > "/Library/QuickLook" to desktop (reboot) with no sucess...

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