And what if it's not listed in the launchctl list?

On Sunday, September 2, 2012 6:06:06 AM UTC-7, Daniel Siemer wrote:
>
> Hello, so Growl 1.4 is a transition release with regards to the Start 
> at Login feature.  While Growl 1.4 is not sandboxed, Growl 2.0 is, and 
> after we are sandboxed, we will no long be able to influence the Start 
> at Login list in your user preferences.  There is a new method for 
> doing launch at login that is sandbox friendly.  When you add the item 
> to the start at login list manually, when growl launches again, we 
> detect that, and upgrade you to the new method, and delete the old so 
> you don't wind up with two things trying to launch growl.  Growl 2.0 
> will no longer do this, and the start at login switch will only be 
> tied to the new method. 
>
> The new sandboxing friendly method uses launchd to start a launcher 
> for us, which then launches Growl.  Unfortunately launchd is an 
> annoying beast that likes to screw up, no matter how right our code is 
> (And believe me, we aren't the only app developer facing this issue). 
> To check if the new launcher is registered properly, you can use the 
> following command in terminal: 
> launchctl list | grep growl 
>
> And if its been added properly, you should see in the result an entry 
> with the identifier com.growl.GrowlLauncher.  If it isn't getting 
> registered, there are some things you can try, repair permissions, 
> repair your launchd database (can be done using a utility like 
> cocktail if you prefer), and repair the user acl list. 
>
> On Aug 31, 7:18 pm, Bobby Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > I've had this happen more than once, and can seemingly re-create it 
> every 
> > time... 
> > 
> > If I turn auto load in growl off, Quit the Program, then go back in and 
> try 
> > to re-enable it, the switch will show on but if I log out & back in it 
> will 
> > NOT load... 
> > 
> > No matter what I do I cannot get Growl to load on login...  I even go as 
> > far as to turn off auto load & add growl to login items in system 
> > preferences... 
> > 
> > Upon loading, Growl will automatically turn the auto load switch on then 
> > REMOVE the entry from login items.  Again if I then log out then log 
> back 
> > it, Growl does NOT load... 
> > 
> > The only solution is to fully delete Growl and all related items 
> (styles, 
> > preferences), reboot, re-download Growl and re-configure it from 
> scratch. 
> >  One this is done it will work as expected, but if I ever disable auto 
> load 
> > for any reason I end up in the same place all over again... 
> > 
> > I'm using the most current version of grows (1.4) and the latest version 
> of 
> > Mac OS X (10.8.1)... 
> > 
> > The install I'm using is a clean format and install that I setup a 
> couple 
> > weeks ago.  This same problem happened to me on my prior image which was 
> an 
> > upgrade install of 10.8... 
>

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