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My iMac has been crashing lately. The screen goes beige and then I have to press a key to restart. These are logs from Console:

12/3/12 9:16:57.408 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.divx.agent.postinstall) Unknown key: LimitToSessionType

12/3/12 9:16:57.408 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.spotify.webhelper) Unknown key: SpotifyPath

12/3/12 9:16:57.408 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.apple.gamed) Ignored this key: UserName

12/3/12 9:16:57.408 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.apple.gamed) Ignored this key: GroupName

12/3/12 9:16:57.410 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self

12/3/12 9:16:57.414 PM loginwindow[42]: Connection with distnoted server was invalidated

12/3/12 9:16:57.458 PM distnoted[363]: # distnote server agent absolute time: 89.804066043 civil time: Mon Dec 3 21:16:57 2012 pid: 363 uid: 505 root: no

12/3/12 9:16:58.624 PM talagent[377]: _LSSetApplicationInformationItem(kLSDefaultSessionID, asn, _kLSApplicationIsHiddenKey, hidden ? kCFBooleanTrue : kCFBooleanFalse, NULL) produced OSStatus -50 on line 623 in TCApplication.m

12/3/12 9:16:58.624 PM talagent[377]: _LSSetApplicationInformationItem(kLSDefaultSessionID, asn, TAL_kLSIsProxiedForTALKey, kCFBooleanTrue, NULL) produced OSStatus -50 on line 626 in TCApplication.m

12/3/12 9:17:07.774 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.prosofteng.DGMonitor[442]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory

12/3/12 9:17:07.774 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.prosofteng.DGMonitor[442]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

12/3/12 9:17:07.774 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.tvmobili.artwork[441]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory

12/3/12 9:17:07.774 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.tvmobili.artwork[441]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

12/3/12 9:17:07.784 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.apple.afpstat-qfa[440]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory

12/3/12 9:17:07.784 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.apple.afpstat-qfa[440]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

12/3/12 9:17:07.784 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae[454]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory

12/3/12 9:17:07.784 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae[454]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

12/3/12 9:17:07.897 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager[449]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory

12/3/12 9:17:07.897 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager[449]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

12/3/12 9:17:09.453 PM Google Chrome[371]: Couldn't contact spell checker for U.S. English

12/3/12 9:17:10.926 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[359]: (com.apple.mrt.uiagent[431]) Exited with code: 255

12/3/12 9:17:18.828 PM com.apple.dock.extra[459]: iPhotoDockTilePlugin: Unable to get dock badge information: connection timeout: did not receive reply

12/3/12 9:20:41.457 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.divx.agent.postinstall) Unknown key: LimitToSessionType

12/3/12 9:20:41.457 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.spotify.webhelper) Unknown key: SpotifyPath

12/3/12 9:20:41.458 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.apple.gamed) Ignored this key: UserName

12/3/12 9:20:41.458 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.apple.gamed) Ignored this key: GroupName

12/3/12 9:20:41.459 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self

12/3/12 9:20:41.464 PM loginwindow[42]: Connection with distnoted server was invalidated

12/3/12 9:20:41.477 PM distnoted[353]: # distnote server agent absolute time: 67.519251895 civil time: Mon Dec 3 21:20:41 2012 pid: 353 uid: 505 root: no

12/3/12 9:21:02.639 PM SystemUIServer[371]: could not update menu bar region, 1000

12/3/12 9:21:02.857 PM talagent[374]: _LSSetApplicationInformationItem(kLSDefaultSessionID, asn, _kLSApplicationIsHiddenKey, hidden ? kCFBooleanTrue : kCFBooleanFalse, NULL) produced OSStatus -50 on line 623 in TCApplication.m

12/3/12 9:21:02.862 PM talagent[374]: _LSSetApplicationInformationItem(kLSDefaultSessionID, asn, TAL_kLSIsProxiedForTALKey, kCFBooleanTrue, NULL) produced OSStatus -50 on line 626 in TCApplication.m

12/3/12 9:21:02.890 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.apple.afpstat-qfa[417]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory

12/3/12 9:21:02.890 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.apple.afpstat-qfa[417]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

12/3/12 9:21:02.890 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.prosofteng.DGMonitor[419]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory

12/3/12 9:21:02.890 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.prosofteng.DGMonitor[419]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

12/3/12 9:21:02.890 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.tvmobili.artwork[418]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory

12/3/12 9:21:02.890 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.tvmobili.artwork[418]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

12/3/12 9:21:02.896 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae[431]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory

12/3/12 9:21:02.896 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae[431]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

12/3/12 9:21:02.896 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager[426]) Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory

12/3/12 9:21:02.896 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager[426]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2

12/3/12 9:21:03.152 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.505[349]: (com.apple.mrt.uiagent[407]) Exited with code: 255

12/3/12 9:21:09.967 PM com.apple.dock.extra[458]: iPhotoDockTilePlugin: Unable to get dock badge information: connection timeout: did not receive reply

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 27", 3.2 GHz i3, 12 GB RAM

Posted on Dec 3, 2012 4:35 AM

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User profile for user: AppleJuiced
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Dec 3, 2012 5:00 PM in response to Linc Davis

Did that and here are the results:


Verifying permissions for “Macintosh HD”

User differs on “Applications/Utilities/Grapher.app/Contents/Resources/Grapher.help/Contents/Re sources/fi.lproj”; should be 0; user is 256.

Group differs on “Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist”; should be 80; group is 0.


Permissions verification complete


Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”

User differs on “Applications/Utilities/Grapher.app/Contents/Resources/Grapher.help/Contents/Re sources/fi.lproj”; should be 0; user is 256.

Repaired “Applications/Utilities/Grapher.app/Contents/Resources/Grapher.help/Contents/Re sources/fi.lproj”

Group differs on “Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist”; should be 80; group is 0.

Repaired “Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist”


Permissions repair complete

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User profile for user: Linc Davis
Linc Davis
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Dec 3, 2012 5:19 PM in response to AppleJuiced

You're getting a lot of unusual error messages indicating that you have damaged or incomplete installations of third-party software, as well as a damaged installation of OS X. To try to fix all that piecemeal is more than I can do from here, and maybe more than you can do. So I suggest a clean reinstallation.


Back up all data to at least two different storage devices, if you haven't already done so. The backups can be made with Time Machine or with a mirroring tool such as Carbon Copy Cloner. Preferably both.


Boot into Recovery (command-R at startup), launch Disk Utility, and erase the startup volume with the default options.This operation will destroy all data on the volume, so you had be better be sure of your backups. Quit Disk Utility and install OS X. When you reboot, you'll be prompted to go through the initial setup process. That’s when you transfer the data from one of your backups. For details of how this works, see here:


Using Setup Assistant


Transfer only "Users" and "Settings" – not "Applications" or "Other files." Don't transfer the Guest account, if it was enabled on the old system. Test. If the problem is still there, you have a hardware fault. Take the machine to an Apple Store for diagnosis.


If the problem is resolved, reinstall your third-party software cautiously. Self-contained applications that install into the Applications folder by drag-and-drop or download from the App Store are safe. Anything that comes packaged as an installer or that prompts for an administrator password is suspect, and you must test thoroughly after reinstalling each such item to make sure you haven't restored the problem.


Note: You need an always-on Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection to the Internet to use Recovery. It won’t work with USB or PPPoE modems, or with networks that require any kind of authentication other than a WPA or WPA2 Personal password.

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My iMac has been crashing lately. The screen goes beige and then I have to press a key to restart. These are logs from Console:

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