I do remember all of my computers recently having a message panel pop up that said something about a security update. This was the first time that I recall thinking that the update had been performed without asking for my permission. Are you saying that perhaps the update produced this behavior? I suppose it's possible, though only one of my computers is having this problem. Could the bug be hardware-specific?
Thanks, Gregg On Jan 3, 2015, at 5:35 PM, George N. White III <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
