On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2010, at 21:59:38, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
>> 2/18/10 18:08:03
>>  
>> /Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GrowlHelperApp.app/Contents/MacOS/GrowlHelperApp[1594]
>>        MDS Error: unable to create user DBs in
>> /var/folders/gd/gdjJUItFGEanPbrHkxIma++++TI/-Caches-//mds
>>
>
> I searched Google for the first part of the message and found out that MDS
> is Module Directory Services, part of the Common Data Security Architecture:
>
>        http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/ba554_90006/ch01s02.html
>
> (That document is written for VMS, but the concepts should be roughly the
> same.)
>
> The message comes from Apple's implementation of MDS. This is part of the
> Security subsystem, so it most probably happens as part of Growl accessing
> the Keychain (which, in turn, is most probably for either MailMe or
> forwarding). At this point, I say it's either a bug in the MDS code or a
> problem on your system.
>
> I suggest editing the title on your bug report to start with
> “Security/CDSA/MDS: ”, so they know what it's really about.
>
>
>
Maybe he could disable the password checkbox in networking to see if it's
that?

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