Some systems are reported to be getting automatic updates of ntp. It wouldn't be a big surprise to find that the automatic updater is buggy as this may be the first time Apple has used it for large scale updating.
On Fri Jan 02 2015 at 3:11:10 PM Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Mac Pro tower that is running Mountain Lion (10.8.5). When I > came to work this morning, some settings on my machine had changed. My > computer seemed to be in a deep sleep, though I had previously set it to > never sleep. Sure enough, the Energy Saver setting (in System Preferences) > had been reset to "Put hard disks to sleep when possible." Maybe a > sysadmin adjusted some of my settings, but that seems strange. > > I also noticed that all of the internal hard drives had icons on the > desktop, even though I had previously had the Hard disks box unchecked in > the General tab of Finder Preferences. When I looked, the box was now > checked, so that explains why the disk icons are on my desktop. But when I > try to uncheck that box, nothing happens. I seem to be able to check and > uncheck other boxes in Finder Preferences, but not any of the 4 that > control which items show on the desktop. > > Does this mean that my system or hard drive has somehow been corrupted? I > rebooted in Recovery Mode and ran Disk Utility to repair the boot drive and > to repair permissions, but that did not help. Is there a command line > option to control what is shown on the desktop? Is there some plist file > that I should delete? > > Thanks, > > Gregg > > P.S. Probably this is a sign that I should upgrade to Mavericks. :) > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >
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