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Q: EtreCheck - Does This Mean Anything?

Basically ran EtreCheck just to see if anything looked bad and this was the only thing that came up.

 

Cannot find this .plist file.

 

Does this "error"mean anything I need to troubleshoot?

 

 

Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️

    [failed]    com.apple.logd.plist [Click for details]

VIN,iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8), El Capitan Partition

Posted on Sep 5, 2016 11:51 AM

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  • by pcbjr,

    pcbjr pcbjr Sep 5, 2016 6:31 PM in response to dialabrain
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    Sep 5, 2016 6:31 PM in response to dialabrain

    Well - I did find the file - but it can't be deleted - apparently not allowed.

     

    Should I reinstall the OS and come back up from 10.11.4? I guess I could do that from the recovery partition? If (is) it worth it?

     

    Interesting - that .plist is from 2015 - that was Snow Leopard times.

     

    1 copy.png

     

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  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Sep 5, 2016 6:38 PM in response to pcbjr
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    Sep 5, 2016 6:38 PM in response to pcbjr

    I thought you said you couldn't find it in your original post. Anyway, I would leave well enough alone.

  • by pcbjr,

    pcbjr pcbjr Sep 5, 2016 6:45 PM in response to dialabrain
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    Sep 5, 2016 6:45 PM in response to dialabrain

    Yeah - I couldn't - Spotlight wasn't showing it so I did some deep searching and finally realized where it lives.

     

    I'll leave well enough alone. But still find it interesting it is a 2015 file, which well predated El Cap.

     

    In response to a couple earlier posts - yes - this is a new SSD installed by my local Apple certified specialist about 3 months ago, and he put the smc fan control on.

  • by babowa,

    babowa babowa Sep 5, 2016 7:15 PM in response to pcbjr
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    Sep 5, 2016 7:15 PM in response to pcbjr

    I admit that I am not an expert on SSDs; however, since SSDs are not spinning drives, I would question the need for the SMC fan control unless your iMac is running hot - I'd check with the repair facility you used.

  • by Larry Kollar,

    Larry Kollar Larry Kollar Sep 5, 2016 7:18 PM in response to pcbjr
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    Sep 5, 2016 7:18 PM in response to pcbjr

    Look in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons to see if com.apple.logd.plist exists there (it does on my system). Maybe a recent update relocated that file, and EtreCheck is working on old assumptions.

  • by etresoft,

    etresoft etresoft Sep 5, 2016 8:05 PM in response to Larry Kollar
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    Sep 5, 2016 8:05 PM in response to Larry Kollar

    Larry Kollar wrote:

     

    EtreCheck is working on old assumptions.

    Hello Larry,

    In this case, that is certainly true. pcbjr is running an old version of EtreCheck, from sometime before April 19, 2015. My Xcode archives don't even go back that far. The current version of EtreCheck is 3.0.3.

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Sep 5, 2016 8:45 PM in response to pcbjr
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    Sep 5, 2016 8:45 PM in response to pcbjr

    Please read very carefully when looking for system files…

    com.apple.logd.plist

    Is not the same file as com.apple.logind.plist

     

     

    Reboot, grab the latest Etrecheck & re-run if you want. It seems like the logdaemon (?) may be failing for some reason, sometimes they can be harmless, see what others say about it specifically.

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