NetAuthAgent causing crash/freeze.....

I have a problem with my laptop totally freezing whenever I try to connect to an external network drive.
This post explained the problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6412555#6412555
I have now discovered it appears to a process called NetAuthAgent causing the crash and I'm getting the following errors posted in a few logs in console:
22/01/2008 6:19:32 pm /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent139 CPSGetProcessInfo(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore.
22/01/2008 6:19:32 pm
/System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent139 CPSPBGetProcessInfo(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore.
Anyone have any idea what's going on?

I couldn't disagree more - there are many many reports in various forums of people having various problems with using SMB networking under Leopard - all of who report no problems when previously under Tiger.
Your really don't expect your networking ability to take a backwards step when upgrading to a new version of your system software.....
it would be one thing if the issue with with some really out-dated legacy product (some ancient tape drive or something), but in this case the majority of problems appear to have been with true network based drives - these are becoming more and more common - heck! - even Apple are now making their own version to run on time machine - this is an increasingly common technology and a major oversight of beta testing to not detect the problem - or even manage to fix it by 10.5.1
Don't get me wrong - i have been an apple fan since my LCIII and System 7! - I went with them as we migrated to PowerPC chips - and then into unix- and now intel.
Each software migration has been amazingly good and stress free.
I currently have several issues with Leopard - all of which that worked fine under Tiger - and only some of which have been fixed with 10.5.2 - I have never been so disappointed. I am also aware that there are many other people who feel jut as strongly about being unofficial beta testers for leopard.
I have always noticed that whenever Apple took us all on an software upgrade there were always unhappy people - but this time there seems to be more than ever - and even people erasing Leopard and reverting to Tiger again.
For now I can't face a reinstall - so I will continue to put up with the problems I've been having with Leopard - and thank the lord I don't rely on macs for my daily business - if I had been relying on my computers for an income the nightmares I've had with Leopard (and hours of time lost putting things right) would have been a serious issue.
So yes - I remain an apple fan - but I think they have to accept criticism when due - and Leopard appears very much to have been released prematurely - and at a time when Vista was attracting sooooooo much bad press I reckon it should have been the A1 top priority to make sure that when Leopard was released it was immaculate (or pretty close to it).
As it was you had most major mac publications (in the UK at least) and several mac online sites issuing warnings about upgrading for far too many months after release.
I used to enjoy my listening to windows user bemoaning their lot and complaining they thought Microsoft built-in designed problems to force continual upgrading to ever more complicated and unreliable leaky OS software..... and I could just say - well, I use an Apple mac!
But this time - it was a real opportunity to spread the apple good news gone begging.
On the plus side - 10.5.2 appears to be making progress towards redeeming itself!... but there are still some big issues.
(as a final note - this is another of the many examples where broadband had made sloppy programming acceptable - there was a time when I relied on cover discs on mac magazines to get my software updates since I had no internet access..... or then when I had dial-up and a 100mb update was a really big deal - in those days software had to be right (or pretty much so- FIRST time) - these days you just chuck it out the door knowing that if its all wrong the miracle of broadband and an automated software updater will get you out of problems..... so why bother paying people to test - let them buy the product and dix the problems as they occur!)

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okay...maybe too short, here some more detailed information:
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Quote from: NovJoe on 08-March-10, 00:02:21
So mainly you need the GPII for the fan speed regulation, right? But without it, the system works fine or will still have problems?
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2) When resuming from S3 the RAM timings are incorrect (I'm using hibernate now, but would love to be able to use sleep from time to time without faulty RAM timings as a result). This seems to be a X58 problem.
Thus yes, GPII mainly is for fan speed regulation and other problems can be worked around. I basically wrote those observations here in case other people might run into those problems, as I've seen reports from other users with X58 boards here who cannot even wake from S3 and my guess is that their RAM is underclocked after resume from S3. Others might also have crashes when running @1.65v and enabling GPII, so I also did write that. My RAM typically will allow to fix voltage even when GPII goes down to 1.5 - those Corsair sticks really are impressive.
To make it complete: since the last BIOS update I've had some instability with Crysis and overheat-freezes by GPU heat when running Kombustor. I never tried Kombustor before, only tried it after those new crysis problems. It looks like the new instability can be resolved easily (some BIOS value adjustment for the Crysis thing) and the GPU heat problem with Kombustor is already written in VGA section, but it appears it's only happening with Kombustor and caused by VGA fan speed not going high enough combined with the GPU causing system freeze at 96-97C although GTX295 should work until 105C...but if normal operation won't ever cause such heat, it shouldn't be a problem.
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My old MBP (2005) often crashes, freezes or shows grey screen at start up. Also track pad often does not work. I have re fomatted the HD and reinstalled system but to no avail. Genius bar says possible faulty HD, but suspect logic board, any ides any body

My old 17" MBP (2005) often crashes, freezes or shows grey screen at start up. Also track pad often does not work. I have re fomatted the HD and reinstalled system but to no avail. Genius bar says possible faulty HD, but I suspect logic board. All checks out OK on the Apple Diagnostic bench. Can a Logic board go intermittant?? Any Ideas any body??

Ive repaired 1000s of laptops over the years (translate: diagnose and replace parts).
Its not that old, Ive owned 100s of laptops (most were free) ....some I still have are nearly 13 years old and still perfect, ....some extremely expensive ones died in under a year.
other than becoming obsolete at some point, there isnt really any "will spoil on" data like Milk for solid state computer parts, ....alas.
You can have a $5000 laptop die in 4 months, and a junker one keep kicking after 10 years.... Ive seen that firsthand countless times.
Common logic dictates that "very expensive = long life" in computers,..... but all the repair people will tell you just the opposite.
I know you have a gripe, I get that all too well honestly .

Photoshop CS4 and graphic cards. Can cause crashing?

Since upgrading to CS4 I seem to have increased crashing.
Here are my system specs.
Mac 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
9 GB of Ram
250 GB internal dedicated scratch disc
NVDIA GeForce 7300 GT with 256 VRAM
After having endless techs look at my machine and upgrading everything. I am beginning to suspect the graphics card.
With OpenGL can a underperforming video card cause crashing in photoshop especially with massive file sizes ( multilayered CMYK poster sized files the can exceed 7 GB)?

Did you install the 11.0.1 update?
Is your OS up to date with patches?
Have you tried disabling OpenGL in preferences to avoid using the GPU/Graphics card?

Drag and drop not working. When trying to move a cell or icon the shadow of the cell or icon being moved appears under the cursor but can't be released causing a freeze of function within the program. Happens in finder numbers and firefox

Drag and drop not working. When trying to move a cell or icon the shadow of the cell or icon being moved appears under the cursor but can't be released causing a freeze of function within the program. Happens in finder numbers, firefox, and when trying to move any file from the downloads folder.
This is a serious pain.
Please help.
WB

Yes, all I can tell you is that Finder does not have that function in ML. Your system is "working as expected".
You can file feedback here.

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