How to stop - com.apple.launcd: Throttling respawn Will start in 10 seconds ?
I am running OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 on MacBook Pro Late 2013 with Retina display.
I had installed then removed an application KUsrTSK.app (Kaseya). I noticed this week in Console following process repeatedly running:
com.apple.launchd: (com.kaseya.AgentMon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
I have tried to look for this command in /Library/LaunchAgents and did not find it.
Someone suggested to run following command in Terminal:
launchd remove com.kaseya.AgentMon
but no such process was found.
At a suggestion I have downloaded and run EtreCheck.app and have put the detailed results below hoping that it would be helpful for someone to suggest a course of action.
EtreCheck version: 1.9.15 (52)
Report generated September 26, 2014 at 5:26:13 PM EDT
Hardware Information: ?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro11,1
1 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
16 GB RAM
Video Information: ?
Intel Iris - VRAM: (null)
Cinema HD 2048 x 1280
System Software: ?
OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Uptime: 0 days 1:57:53
Disk Information: ?
ST2000DM001-9YN164 disk0 : (2 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
2big-2TB-One (disk0s2) /Volumes/2big-2TB-One: 2 TB (1.2 TB free)
ST2000DM001-9YN164 disk2 : (2 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
2big-2TB-Two (disk2s2) /Volumes/2big-2TB-Two: 2 TB (2 TB free)
APPLE SSD SM1024F disk1 : (1 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk1s2) / [Startup]: 999.7 GB (614.68 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk1s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information: ?
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple USB Ethernet Adapter
Logitech USB Receiver
No brand Combo Free KVM
Thunderbolt Information: ?
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Apple Inc. Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
LaCie 2big
Gatekeeper: ?
Mac App Store
Kernel Extensions: ?
[loaded] com.Logitech.Control Center.HID Driver (3.5.1 - SDK 10.0) Support
[loaded] com.Logitech.Unifying.HID Driver (1.2.0 - SDK 10.0) Support
[not loaded] com.equinux.VPNTracker (5.1.2) Support
[not loaded] com.equinux.VPNTracker6 (6.9.2 - SDK 10.4) Support
[not loaded] com.equinux.VPNTracker7 (7.0.0 - SDK 10.8) Support
[loaded] com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver (1.0.3 - SDK 10.5) Support
[not loaded] com.microsoft.VirtualPC.Networking.1040 (7.0.2) Support
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecDriverCore (5.0.1) Support
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_4 (5.0.1) Support
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_5 (5.0.1) Support
[not loaded] com.seagate.driver.SeagateDriveIcons (5.0.1) Support
Startup Items: ?
AgentMon: Path: /Library/StartupItems/AgentMon
HP IO: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP IO
Virex: Path: /Library/StartupItems/Virex
VNCServer: Path: /Library/StartupItems/VNCServer
VShieldEPOInterface: Path: /Library/StartupItems/VShieldEPOInterface
Problem System Launch Agents: ?
[loaded] com.paragon.NTFS.auth.plist Support
Launch Daemons: ?
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[running] com.collobos.fingerprintd.plist Support
[loaded] com.equinux.VPNTracker6.agent.plist Support
[loaded] com.equinux.VPNTracker7.agent.plist Support
[running] com.intego.BackupAssistant.daemon.plist Support
[loaded] com.kaseya.agentmon.plist Support
[not loaded] com.logmein.logmeinblanker.plist Support
[running] com.logmein.logmeinserver.plist Support
[loaded] com.logmein.raupdate.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support
[loaded] com.skype.skypeinstaller.plist Support
[running] com.trusteer.rooks.rooksd.plist Support
Launch Agents: ?
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.intego.backupassistant.agent.plist Support
[loaded] com.kaseya.update.plist Support
[running] com.Logitech.Control Center.Daemon.plist Support
[failed] com.logmein.LMILaunchAgentFixer.plist Support
[running] com.logmein.logmeingui.plist Support
[running] com.logmein.logmeinguiagent.plist Support
[not loaded] com.logmein.logmeinguiagentatlogin.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
[not loaded] com.realvnc.VNCServerd.plist Support
[loaded] com.realvnc.VNCServersd.plist Support
[running] com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist Support
[running] com.trusteer.rapport.rapportd.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ?
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[failed] com.apple.MobileMeSyncClientAgent.plist
[running] com.c-command.SpamSieve.LaunchAgent.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[running] com.memeo.Memeod.plist Support
[not loaded] jp.co.canon.Inkjet_Extended_Survey_Agent.plist Support
[loaded] uk.co.markallan.clamxav.freshclam.plist Support
User Login Items: ?
System Events
AirPort Base Station Agent
Backup Engine 3
iTunesHelper
VMware Fusion Helper
VMware Fusion Start Menu
AdobeResourceSynchronizer
Canon IJ Network Scanner Selector2
AdobeResourceSynchronizer
ClamXavSentry
Dropbox
Internet Plug-ins: ?
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.0 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.4.4.2 Support
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.6 Support
RealPlayer Plugin: Version: (null) Support
AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 1.0.0.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.10411.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
GarminGpsControl: Version: 2.9.1.0 Release Support
EPPEX Plugin: Version: 3.0.5.0 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 67 Check version
Safari Extensions: ?
AdBlock
Audio Plug-ins: ?
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins: ?
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins ?
CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: Version: 1.0.105 Support
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes: ?
RCDefaultApp
Flash Player Support
Flip4Mac WMV Support
FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE) Support
Growl Support
Java Support
Logitech Control Center Support
Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X Support
Trusteer Endpoint Protection Support
Time Machine: ?
Skip System Files: NO
Mobile backups: ON
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 931.04 GB Disk used: 358.58 GB
Destinations:
2big-2TB-One [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 2 TB
Total number of backups: 65
Oldest backup: 2013-08-19 14:51:47 +0000
Last backup: 2014-09-26 20:40:21 +0000
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 2 TB > (Disk used 358.58 GB X 3)
Time Machine details may not be accurate.
All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU: ?
9% ksfetch
2% WindowServer
2% GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent
2% Activity Monitor
1% fontd
Top Processes by Memory: ?
475 MB mds_stores
344 MB Mail
279 MB clamd
180 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
147 MB Contacts
Virtual Memory Information: ?
9.02 GB Free RAM
4.68 GB Active RAM
974 MB Inactive RAM
1.36 GB Wired RAM
762 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
As shown in the output of EtreCheck, that startup item is here:
Startup Items: ?
AgentMon: Path: /Library/StartupItems/AgentMon
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Help me kill this (and keep it "killed"?)! Thanks!
T i m1. You wrote: "It always has the drive attached to the wire, but if I want to repair permissions in DU or Cocktail the drive can not be unmounted w/ the FW 800 LaCie cable plugged in. It must be unplugged. Mounted it runs fine."Try a different FireWire cable or different FireWire port.
2. You wrote: "Doc, I think you might start recommending the very popular SuperDuper! in your back up strategy. It's laughingly easy, advanced if you want it to be, and to me was so much more users friendly than my Retrospect experience which seemed clunky and considerably more expensive)"I've considered doing so, but it's really a one-trick pony: duplicates to external drives. If that's all one needs, it's a very good product. However, there can be more to Backup and Recovery than duplicates. I hold a license for SuperDuper and several other Backup and Recovery utilities as it's an area of interest for me, so I'm regularly testing and comparing them.
Retrospect has far more capability: it's truly the "Swiss Army Knife" of Backup and Recovery utilities and why I recommend it. Backup Sets, for example, are a Retrospect exclusive and are extremely useful. Backup to optical media, including media spanning, is another unique feature. As noted in my "Backup and Recovery" FAQ, Retrospect Express is often bundled for free with FireWire drives, making cost a moot point. One can do incremental duplicates with Retrospect Express whereas one must license SuperDuper to do so. If Retrospect was bundled for free with one's FireWire drive, one should at least give a try.
Likewise, Retrospect itself isn't that expensive: what gets expensive is adding the support contracts to Retrospect, but those are generally not required.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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Need help trouble shooting on how to fix my MacBook Pro so it will start
Ok, this is going to be a bit of a long one, cuz there are a good amount of details that go into the problem and how I have tried to fix it.
To start, late last summer I got my Macbook Pro 15" with high resolution anti-glare, 500 GB X 7200 RPM hard drive, and everythin else standard.
Next part of the story is that i decided to upgrade from my 3-year-old iPhone 3GS. So I preordered an iPhone 5 (never doing that again), and finally received it 10/05/12.
Wanting to synch my new iPhone 5 ASAP so I could fully play with it, I finally synched my old iPhone 3GS with my MacBook Pro for the first time. I had not previously synched it with my MacBook Pro, because all of the songs and stuff that were on it were from being synched with my family's desktop (from maybe a year or so ago; I don't synch my phones often.). I also had been lazy this whole time in not transferring the songs and stuff from the desktop to my MacBook Pro, so thats why I didn't synch my 3GS, because I didn't want to lose that stuff on my phone until I had made time to transfer the data. Because of this, I didn't use iTunes that much and I updated it only 2 or 3 times over the year that I had if before I got my iPhone 5.
After synching my old phone, I then tried synching the i5, but an iTunes pop up said that I needed to update to iTunes 7.0 in order to synch the new phone.
So I canceled the pop-up, and checked the updates in iTunes, and selected update (I can't remember what it said I was updating to, but I don't think it was 7.0).
After it started updating, it asked if I wanted to update something something else (I think it was an iOS update or something thing like that.).
I select update, because it looks legit, and why not update the whole computer when I'm taking the time to update iTunes? So the 15-20 minute installation estimation time turns into 2 hours (I think that it said that there was 2GB of update, but not sure.).
At that time, I think of how I don't remember if the update was 7.0 or not (maybe 6.9 or something like that was my thought.). So I tried to re-synched my i5 to make the pop up for iTunes 7.0 to come up. It came up, and I clicked the link to take me to Apple's site. I clicked the update to iTunes 7.0, and it started downloading from the internet, and it gave some download estimation time. Remember that the other iTunes and iOS thing was still updating while iTunes 7.0 was downloading. The problem was that I had to go to work a few minutes before the download of the iTunes 7.0 from Apple's site would complete and 1.5 hours before the other updates would finish. So I just left my MacBook Pro open, running, and updating/downloading.
After work, I checked my laptop, and it said something about finalizing the installation. So I hit that button to finalize or whatever it said, and it starts finalizing.
After waiting 10 or so minutes I check my MacBook Pro again, and it says that it needs to restart to complete the process. So I hit the restart button on the pop up.
It restarted, and against a blue screen there was a grey pop up that said that there was some error or something like that in the installation and that I needed to restart the computer again. There was only one button on the pop up, and it was the "Restart" button. So I pressed it, and it restarted again.
However, it didn't fully boot up (and to this day still doesn't) and get past the grey screen with the apple and the spinning gear thingy underneath it.
After like 20 minutes, I did a forced shut off, and rebooted while holding the option button to see if I could start my Windows side, since I have my computer bootcamped, though I haven't used Windows on it yet. The three options appeared: Windows something, Macintosh something, and Recovery HD. I clicked the Windows button, and after loading and stuff, Windows was running and working. So I'm pretty sure that my problem isn't a hardware problem, but a software problem.
So I asked a friend who is studying to be some kind of computer guy, and he suggested that I put in the Mac iOS X disk that I got with my MacBook Pro when I start up and try to get to Disk Utility. I did that, and was able to get to Disk Utility. And as he instructed, I (on the First Aid tab, I think) pressed "Verify Disk". He said that it started to look for problems and stuff. Then when it was done, I pressed the "Repair Disk", and he said it started fixing those problems. After it was done, I performed another forced shut off. I then turned my MacBook Pro on with crossed fingers, but it was still stuck on the gray screen with the apple and the gear.
He then suggested that we try to start it in Safe Mode, so we researched how to do it on my family's desktop. I tried holding Shift after the turn on tone and releasing it when the spinning gear appeared, but that didn't work. I'm still not sure if that's the right way to start in safe mode.
So right now I don't have any other ideas, besides spending money to get it fixed, which I don't want to do, cuz I'm not rich and I work hard for all these fancy toys.
It ***** to have the joy of getting the newest iPhone overshadowed by my MacBook Pro not working.
Someone, please help!!!First off your older OS X boot disks are no good as you upgraded OS X to a later version.
When you held the option key down at boot, this entered Startup Manager and by what your describing you have Recovery HD, Macintosh HD (your OS X boot partition), and Windows BootCamp partition.
To repair the drive, you enter Recovery HD and use Disk Utiltiy there to repair the Macintish HD partition.
You also use Recovery HD to reinstall OS X 10.7 or 10.8 from Apple's servers, this should fix your problems without deleting your programs or files. (some third party with at boot kernel extension ones will have to be reinstalled)
All you need to know is here
Step by Step to fix your Mac
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How to stop "Your Apple ID was used to sign in to iCloud"
I just started using icloud.com on my pc and every time I sign on it sends a message to my recovery email, not icloud mail, and it drives me crazy especially when I have to sign back in after not being used for a bit. How can I stop them? Or would I register or verify my computer to get them stopped? Always been an iphone user but I don't know much about all the systems and programs. Please help! Thank you
Check your Apple ID to make sure that your Primary email address is the one where you want the notifications sent. At this time, there is no way to "turn them off". This was a security measure that Apple instituted to alert you that your iCloud account has been accessed by a browser.
Check your Apple ID info here: Apple - My Apple ID
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GB -
How to stop some apple id call my apple id and/ or my phone number by face time
Hi there, my niece lost her iPod touch at school and in there had my phone number and my apple Id. Unknow people stolen the iPod keep calling me by face time even I changed my apple id. Can someone help me to stop them bother me like that way. They cover their face by blanket and talk crazy, if I do not accept,they will call me again and again. I am stuck ! Help me please !
You can delete the iCloud account from her phone by going to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and choose Delete Account. I believe you will get a prompt asking if you want to remove or keep the data on the phone; if you don't want your contacts on her phone choose delete. As far as the contact on your old SIM card, if it is the same size as the iPhone SIM card you can put it in the iPhone and import the contacts (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4994). If the SIM card won't fit, then you would need to either export the contacts to your computer using appropriate software, upload your contacts to a cloud service so you can download them to your computer, or in some cases take it and your iPhone to your retailer and ask them if they can do the transfer for you. (It's also possible to cut a SIM card down to fit but it can be tricky to get it right. There are articles on this if you search with Google.) This video might help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypZpYNpfa9E.
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How to stop receiving Apple Support Communities messages
Sick and tired of receiving dozens of messages.
Not even able to send them to the junk box. These continue appearing like a cloud of locusts.
Please, help !!!Unfortunately there is no unsubscribe from here so this needs to be fixed for the mails to stop.
Usually the tech tip I wrote handles this issue if followed exactly as written. A lot if users will try to short-circuit the procedure or stop after they set the email preferences thinking that that is enough to fix it.
As the tip states the email preferences only affect the future not what is happening now. So are you sure the actual notifications view is empty?
If you look at the email you received it will indicate where it came from, a single post, a thread or a community. You can use that information to go to the particular area sending the email and turn it off At the upper righthand side of the screen is an actions box. Make sure it says Receive email notifications. If it says Stop email notifications click it.
If you still have problems a host can be notified to look at your account and try to fix the problem.
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