This came across one of our internal Mac mailing lists, thought it might be of interest to some of you.
--- Rex. -----Original Message----- From: Guy Ferraiolo Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:23 AM To: mac-users Subject: fix for an annoying problem Folks Something in a recent update made this much more frequent on my system. Between last Thursday and this Tuesday I rebooted my beloved dual G5 more often than I had since I got it. Now, all is well. >From Macintouch John Bafford's Unlockupd 1.0 is a free utility designed to work around a bug in lookupd, a Mac OS X system service responsible for handling NetInfo, DNS, and other requests. The utility periodically checks lookupd's status and forces it to restart should it fail. The author describes the lookupd problem as follows: Lookupd has a bug (rdar://3632865) in its cache cleanup code that causes it to randomly crash. CrashReporter, the system crash log agent, does not properly handle lookupd crashes, and as a result, when lookupd crashes, the process is not terminated. Since lookupd has not terminated, mach_init does not respawn lookupd. From this point, any application that attempts to access lookupd, either directly or indirectly, will hang. http://www.dshadow.com/software/unlockupd/ FYI, Guy | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
