Ok, so I have been investigating my stupid OSX problem that has been driving me insane… I thought I had fixed it about a week ago, but alas, it resurfaced… I just got tricked… But today, oh, today I actually have a clue and a definite symptom that is tied to this (instead of all the previous hand-waving). It seems, that whenever one of these hangs occurs, once the blockage passes and the application ACTUALLY begins to start, the following is printed to the console logs:
Jan 21 02:16:49 carlos netinfod local[272]: unable to bind to parent - RPC: Timed out
So now I just have to figure out how to fix the problem… ;) But at least I have something that I can point at…
This is the recommended fix for that peticular error under Darwin:
niutil -destroyprop . /machines/broadcasthost serves
I found that yesterday too, but the problem is that I am pretty sure that OSX relies heavily on netinfo, which darwin doesn’t necessarily need.
I tried it anyway, though, and it didn’t fix anything. ;)
I’m no computer expert, but I’d say it has something to do with a falling out between Santana and his mother.
I lived real close to Tito Santana when I was growing up… Next town over.
It sounds like it’s either a bad security rule (e.g. the machine is named carlos in some places and somethingelse elsewhere) or netinfod (or one of its components) isn’t starting correctly.
If that’s the case it’s Apple’s fault… I really haven’t fucked with any of that stuff…