G5 pauses for 2 minutes while booting, and message appears in console
So my G5 has developed a new habit - pausing for two minutes post grey Apple logo/gear but before blue background appears. Eventually, the boot process ends with a desktop and seems to function normally. I booted onto the Leopard install CD and ran the repair disk and repair permissions utilities. I installed the TechTool Deluxe software from my Applecare package (of course my Apple Care plan expired last month) and ran all the tests and everything passes. I ran the "periodic daily weekly monthly" script in terminal.
I checked in console and found this:
4/8/08 3:04:23 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.WD.WDDriveServices[946]) posix_spawnp("/usr/bin/WDDrvSvc", ...): No such file or directory
4/8/08 3:04:23 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.WD.WDDriveServices[946]) Exited with exit code: 1
4/8/08 3:04:23 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.WD.WDDriveServices) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
this sequence of 3 lines repeats every 10 seconds.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to what this is, why it's happening, how to make it stop and if it has anything to do with the lovely new 2 minute pause at boot?
Thanks in advance!
Ok, so I unplugged the external WD hard drive, restarted, same thing.
I used OnyX to clear out caches. Restarted, the two minute delay went away. Yay! And the ole G5 seems a bit perkier. But the 3 lines cycling through console are still there.
I went into Terminal (I'm not really a novice) because I found something in console during the boot process referring to a WDNotifier.app. I mvved it into a folder (directory) called oldstartupitems and restarted. Same three things cycle through console.
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Pre-Mavericks
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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