Were the programs showing up as null migrated or installed fresh?
db
Jordan wrote:
Thanks for the incites. I'll read up on your ideas and try the
different booting modes. Today, after another shutdown/startup cycle,
Thunderbird is no longer Null, and Seamonkey, which was also null, is
no longer. Sunbird still is. Audio Hijack still is, and is up to date.
I do have all of Audio Hijack's app enhancers.
As I mentioned in an earlier post this is happening on a new(refurb)
notebook from Apple running 10.5, with programs migrated from an iMac
running the latest 10.4. The iMac does not have this problem.
Thanks for the help.
David K Watson wrote:
Have you tried running "top" in Terminal to see if the process
names show up there? This will give us a little more information
on how deep the problem goes, and it is also a partial substitute
for Activity Monitor. You can read about it at
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/PerformanceOverview/InitialEvaluation/chapter_5_section_2.html>
You could also try these things, in order:
Try logging in as another user or Guest, and see what happens.
If Activity Monitor works for other users, see what startup items
you have running.
Ordinarily it doesn't do much good, but this looks like a good
time to launch Disk Utility.app (in the Applications/Utilities
folder) and verify your hard disk and repair its permissions.
Boot into Safe Mode and see if the problem persists there. If
Activity Monitor works there, then the problem is most likely
due to a kernel extension you added or a startup item.
Finally, you might try updating/reinstalling/uninstalling Audio Hijack,
since it reportedly has caused various bizarre system problems.
Give us more information: which version OS X are you using?
Have you done any system "enhancements" besides Audio
Hijack, such as Application Enhancer (APE) from Unsanity?
David
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:17:44 -0400
From: Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Process name (null) on OS X
There is a curiosity I've noticed lately. Beside the symbols for the
Thunderbird, Sunbird, and Audio Hijack applications in Activity
Monitor,
it calls the process name (null) instead of their names. These apps
seem
to be working properly and quitting them a restarting them does not
help. I did a little Googling and did not find anything helpful except
that the system is not recognizing their names.
Does anyone know what's going on?
7/15/08
What I find when I Google is that it's:
Something to do with the Classic environment, which I've never
allowed to load on the machine.
Some anonymous app that consumes massive amounts of CPU cycles. These
apps are not anonymous since their icons are right there beside the
(null), and they use the CPU about the way I would expect them to.
This is a new(refurb) notebook from Apple running 10.5, so I wonder
if it's a glitch that an update will fix.
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