Yesterday I installed the fetch 5.0.3 upgrade and very shortly my system hung. I coudn't even force quit. I pressed the power key to shut it down. When I restarted I opened disk utilities and when I tried to repair permissions the system hung again. I again forced the computer to shut down, Installed my startup cd and rebooted. I ran disk utility from the startup CD repaired the disk and repaired disk permissions twice. On the third run through of disk permission repair everything was ok.
I rebooted and ran disk permissions again - twice before it said everything was ok. Next I trashed Fetch 5.0.3 and reinstalled 5.0.2. Everything seems to be ok now. Question: Do you think my problem might be related to Rex's message below? Thanks. Harry Wednesday, September 28, 200511:30 AMRex BaldazoRex.Baldazo at cnet.com >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> | 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>
