Patch stalls.

I'm trying to apply the 10.1.3.3 patch to AS 10.1.3.1 but each time it stalls at 86%. I check the logs and the last thing logged is this:
Start output from spawned process:
opmnctl: starting opmn and all managed processes...
Failed to Start Service with error The system cannot find the path specified.
(GetLastError()=3)
However when I start opmnctl by hand, it runs fine. What's up? Any ideas?
Paul.

need to go back and find why the patch application stalled.
opatch or whatever should have a log.

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New Patch Release 3.0.9.8.1 for Oracle9iAS Portal 3.0.9.8.0

The patch can be found on metalink. The patch number is: 1841088.
Oracle9iAS Portal 3.0.9 Patch Release Notes
July 2001
Contents
For the latest release note updates, visit the Oracle Technology Network
and click the Documentation tab.
Installation and Setup Patch Contents
Installation (Windows) Bugs fixed by this patch
Installation (UNIX)
Post-installation steps
Installation (Windows)
You can only apply this patch to Release 3.0.9 of Oracle Portal
(Oracle9iAS v1.0.2.2). To apply this patch, do the following:
From the command line prompt, execute the patch command according to
the following syntax:
patch.cmd [-m patch_mode] [-s schema_name]
[-p schema_password] [-u sys_password]
-c connect_string [-l log_file_name]
-m patch_mode is the patch mode. Valid values are
loginserver or portalschema. Default value is
portalschema.
-s schema_name is the name of the Portal schema that you
want to patch. Default value is PORTAL30.
-p schema_password is the password of the schema you want
to patch. Default value is PORTAL30.
-u sys_password is the SYS Password. Default value is
CHANGE_ON_INSTALL.
-c connect_string is the TNS connect string information.
-l log_file_name is the name of the log file. Default value
is patch.log.
Examples:
To patch Login Server Only:
patch -m loginserver -s portal30_sso -p portal30_sso -u
change_after_install -c mydatabase -l mypatch.log
To patch Portal Schema Only
patch -m portalschema -s portal30 -p portal30 -u
change_after_install -c mydatabase -l mypatch.log
To patch both Portal Schema and Login Server
patch -m loginserver -s portal30_sso -p portal30_sso -u
change_after_install -c mydatabase -l mypatch.log
patch -m portalschema -s portal30 -p portal30 -u
change_after_install -c mydatabase -l mypatch.log
To complete the application of the patch, follow the instructions in
Post-installation steps.
Installation (UNIX)
You can only apply this patch to Release 3.0.9 of Oracle Portal
(Oracle9iAS v1.0.2.2). To apply this patch, do the following:
From the command line prompt, execute the patch command according to
the following syntax:
patch.csh [-m <patch_mode>] [<-l log_file_name>]
-m <patch_mode> is is the patch mode. Valid values are
loginserver, portalschema, or both. Default value is both.
-l log_file_name is the name of the log file. Default value
is patch.log.
Examples:
To patch Login Server only
patch.csh -m loginserver -l mypatch.log
To patch Portal Schema only
patch.csh -m portalschema -l mypatch.log
To patch both Portal Schema and Login Server
patch.csh -m both -l mypatch.log
patch.csh -l mypatch.log
To patch both Portal Schema and Login Server with default
log file
patch.csh -m both
patch.csh
To complete the application of the patch, follow the instructions in
Post-installation steps.
Post-installation steps
The bug fixes for bug numbers 1817550, 1830898, 1832632, 1840420, 1664594,
1810741, 1807325, and 1819442 are not installed via the patch script
because you must shut down your Web server prior to applying them. The
sections that follow describe how to apply these fixes.
JPDK.ZIP
On the Web server where the provider is running:
Unzip the contents of jpdk.zip into a directory (e.g., JPDK_30901).
Shut down your Web server.
Change your zone.properties file to include <extract
dir>/jpdk/lib/provider.jar in the wrapper.classpath.
If you are using Java Portal Development Kit (JPDK) samples from a
previous release of the JPDK, update your samples using those
included in the zip file. Refer to <extract dir>/installing.jpdk.html
for more details.
Restart your Web server.
Note: Refer to <extract dir>/release.notes.html for a list of changes made
in this release.
wwpage.jar
On the middle tier where the Portal listener is running:
Shut down your Web server.
Create a backup of your current wwpage.jar file.
Replace /$IAS_HOME/Apac he/Jserv/servlets/wwpage.jar with the new
wwpage.jar provided in this patch.
Restart your Web server.
New Parameters
The Parallel Page Engine now accepts two new parameters in the
zone.properties file:
minStall is the minimum stall value allowed for a contentfetcher
before it assumes there is a problem and times out. This value
defaults to 120 seconds. It was added to help upgrades from
308, which had a normal stall value of 40 seconds. The meaning
of stall has changed slightly, raising the need for a minimum
value.
minTimeout is the minimum timeout that may be sent by a
portlet. At times portlets send very small values, like 1
second. This almost always fails, and pages are rendered
incomplete. The minTimeout defaults to 5 seconds, but may be
set otherwise if this is not large enough. The minTimeout is
different from the requestTime. The requestTime is used when no
timeout value is sent for a portlet.
opca.jar
Back up your current opca.jar file, which is found in the
<IAS_HOME>/assistants/opca/ directory.
Copy the opca.jar file provided with this patch to the
<IAS_HOME>/assistants/opca/ directory.
To install the Portal repository, run the launch.bat (on NT) or
launch.sh (on Solaris) to invoke the Portal Configuration Assistant.
Follow the steps in the configuration assistant.
Oracle Portal Cache
Go to Oracle MetaLink and retrieve the patch for bug number 1817550.
Stop your Oracle HTTP Server.
Apply the patch you downloaded from Oracle MetaLink as per the
instructions in the README.txt file.
Login to your system as root and delete all cache files and
subdirectories under the directory
<IAS_HOME>/Apache/modplsql/cache/plsql. Make sure the directory
<IAS_HOME>/Apache/modplsql/cache/plsql is empty.
Start your Oracle HTTP Server.
Bugs fixed by this patch
This patch fixes the following known bugs:
Bug Number Bug Subject and Description
1817550 ON SOLARIS, WHEN RUNNING ON PORT 80, ORACLE PORTAL CACHE
GETS DISABLED
Due to a bug in the Oracle HTTP Server powered by Apache,
the Oracle Portal cache gets disabled when it is running
on port 80.
1819194 EXCEPTION THROWN IF A USER'S PASSWORD HAS AN AMPERSAND.
Special characters such as an ampersand (&) in passwords
or any text node that is sent to the Web providers were
causing errors.
1664594 XML TAGS IN THE JAVA STACK - CAUSING PARSER TO CRASH.
(Duplicate Bug: 1788506) Control characters were not
being properly escaped appropriately and causing errors
in the database SOAP parser.
1823166 PORTLET SECURITY IS RAISING AN ERROR FOR NON-ADMIN USERS
W/ ANY_PORTLET MANAGE.
1782458 NOT ABLE TO CREATE MASTER DETAIL REPORT.
1802055 308-309 UPGR: CLICKING ON "REFRESH ERROR" IN PORTLET
REPOSITORY GIVES ERROR.
1815257 UPGRADE: 306-309:308-309:SEARCH PEOPLE PORTLET: SHOWS
ERROR.
1744458 REPORTS FROM SQL: VALID SQL:GIVES AMBIGUOUS COLUMN ERROR
FOR JOINED TABLES.
1783257 REPORT COMPONENT AS PORTAL IN PAGE CAN'T BE ASSOCIATED
WITH TAB.
1801961 UPGRADE:307-309:ADD PORTLETS REGION IS SHOWING UP VERY
SLOW.
1807325 FETCHERS TIMEOUTS, AND PORTLET PRODUCED AN ERROR.
This bug pertains to a synchronization issue in the 3.0.9
fetching of portlet content. The Document could not be
contacted error is randomly raised. However, it may be
that other problems are causing this error. This bug only
refers to the synchronization issue in which the Parallel
Page Engine causes the problem.
1810741 PROVIDER USER DOES NOT DETECT PUBLIC USER CORRECTLY.
Previously, the JPDK did not correctly detect if the
current user was logged in or accessing the portal using
a public session. This bug also affected providers
registered with a login frequency of PUBLIC. Failure to
detect the logged in state of the user correctly caused
ProviderUser.isPublicUser() to return an incorrect value
when a provider written using JPDK release 3.0.9 was used
with earlier releases of Oracle9iAS Portal.
The most common symptom of thi s error is the Customize
link being shown to public users when the provider
definition specified that it should be hidden. A new
username parameter has been added so the JPDK can
correctly detect the logged in state of users while
maintaining backwards compatibility with older versions
of Oracle9iAS Portal.
1811275 GROUP NAME IS REPEATED IN LIST OF GROUPS IN SPANISH,
FRENCH ETC.
1812018 PERSPECTIVES ARE REMOVED FROM ITEMS IF THEY ARE EDITED.
1815037 OPCA HANGS AT 90%
Oracle Portal Configuration Assistant hangs at 90% during
the Oracle9iAS 1.0.2.2 installation.
1819442 PROVIDE MINTIMEOUT FOR PPE TO OVERRIDE SMALLEST
TIMEOUT(S).
Previously, there were no minimum values for timeouts.
The fix for this bug adds some minimum values for
timeouts and changes the defaults such that the Parallel
Page Engine works better without any configuration by the
user. These changes help to prevent getting the Portlet
could not be contacted error message.
1830898 SSOUNLCK.SQL DOESN'T UNLOCK SSO USER ACCOUNT.
1832632 BITMAP INDEXES IN EXPORT-IMPORT FAIL TO INSTALL ON ORACLE
8I STANDARD.
1833509 SITE MANAGER BUGS FOR CATEGORY, ITEMTYPE, FOLDERTYPE, AND
PERSPECTIVE.
This bug covers the following:
Showing the category popup correctly when you hide
categories.
Same Banner appears more than once while rendering.
All Item Types show up when you create Custom Item
Types.
All Folder Types show up when you create Custom
Folder Types.
No data found error occurs in perspective list of
content area manager.
All item types get hidden when you hide different
item types in different content areas.
Categories are not displayed appropriately when you
go into content areas of default languages other
than "us."
Minor issues with Bulk action.
1840420 CUSTOM WRITTEN EXTERNAL AUTH MODULE NEED TO BE UPDATED
AFTER 3.0.9 UPGRADE SSOXOID.PKB DOESN'T LOAD.
External authentication modules that were written before
3.0.9 need to be updated after upgrading to 3.0.9.
ssoauthx.pks is updated in 3.0.9 and contains additional
routines that need to be implemented.
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Richard,
I have just applied patch to upgrade from Portal 3.0.9 to 3.0.9.8.1 (Patch applied to loginserver and portal schema) and the External Applications that were previously set up have gone from the portlet.
Does this relate to your note at the bottom:
"Minor issues with Bulk action. 1840420 CUSTOM WRITTEN EXTERNAL AUTH MODULE NEED TO BE UPDATED AFTER 3.0.9 UPGRADE SSOXOID.PKB DOESN'T LOAD.
External authentication modules that were written before 3.0.9 need to be updated after upgrading to 3.0.9. ssoauthx.pks is updated in 3.0.9 and contains additional routines that need to be implemented." ??
If I go to the "Login Server Administration" portlet and select the link "Administer External Applications" I get a list of 5 External Applications that have previously been set up.
If I go back to the Home Page and select "customize" on the "External Applications" portlet I get the message "Your Login Server administrator has not registered any external applications".
Does that mean I should just run 'ssoauthx.pks' & 'ssoxoid.pkb' or do I need to do something else ??
Thanks
Simo

HP Officejet 5510 all in one - stalling of printing carriage and printing problems

I have had this All in One Printer since December 2004. It had been working fine until I replaced a cartridge at a refill store over a year ago. To deal with the problem with HP I felt would be time consuming so I put up with the problem and if I needed good quality printing, I would take it to Kinkos.
The print carriage is slow to respond and print from my computer and then in the middle of the task the carriage will stop and stall or bang like it wants to move, but is stuck and then, with all the lights flashing, I get a message in the copier window for me to clear the printing jam or carriage jam and then press OK.   I open the door to the carriage and then close it and press OK. It does not always work the first time to make the carriage stop banging. Eventually it will stop and the paper will release and then it will continue finishing the task, but a lot of the time what is printed has double printing with jagging to one side of the paper.
This is also affecting receiving any faxes because it involves print carriage.
I have done all the steps for clearing a paper/carriage jam. There is nothing visable to cause a jam. I have managed to do the self test after the printer goes through some banging and then telling me to open the door to clear the jam.    I have done the steps to
clean the cartridges and then again do a self test.   I downloaded the latest driver/updates for the printer, but the problem persists.
The cartridge refill store , not seeing the problem first hand, keeps offering for me to bring back the cartridges if the problem persists and replace them.
Do you think it is the cartridges or the unit?   I just replaced the black cartridge in December 2009 and have not print much knowing
the quality would be poor. Yesterday I saw a message that I am low on black ink. That does not seem possible.
When I do the self test it is showing white lines through the colored bars and I am missing the pink or red bar. So I know I have to replace the color cartridge.
As far as alignment, when I did the first of two self tests,                                                     Second Test After the Drive Download
                                                           the Vertical Cartridge to Cartridge read    -12                               -24
                                                       the Horizontal Cartridge to Cartridge read    -24                                99
                                            the Black Bidirectional Cartridge to Cartridge read    -54                                0
                                             the Color Bidirectional Cartridge to Cartridge read      6                                 6
After doing the steps to automatically clean the cartridges, it printed a report with symbols at the top. They look to be squeezed together and the top portions of the symbols are missing. The black bar has some white indents along the edges and the blue and yellow bars are spread more apart with some lighter colored lines vertically.
I have Windows XP and the HP Director was not working. I downloaded the patch and it is working correctly telling me that both cartridges are low, the black more than the tri-color and now a message that the print carriage has stalled. The help button tells me to do everything I have already done.
Do you have an answer that I can manage by myself or would it be better to take it to a computer repair place?
Thank You , 918nifferf

I have a carriage jam on my HP Officejet 5510 which I cannot correct.. I have tried everything I know to do. There are two black pieces that will not spring down when the cartridges travel across. I th en get a carriage jam message.
Do these pieces need lubricated?
How can I get t hem to go down when the carriage goes across?
Thanks for any information or help options
Karol

Repair Disk Permissions utility stalled - I have read the knowledge base

I have researched the knowledge base and search for posts on this and cannot find answer: Running 10.4 at the latest version. used the original install 1 disc I received with Tiger to repair disc permissions (like Apple support has told me to do in the past, but my current research said I do not need to do this unless certain parameters are met, and none of the parameters applied, but oh well, I am here anyway). Cold Boot from the original install disc 1 and slected the start up disk I use (I only have one start up disc/drive). Did a repair disc permissions and got a long running routine that reporting a lot of fixes, then the utility has stalled -- no progress on the progress bar. I "stopped" the process using the "stop repair" button (three times). The log reflected the utility stopped, but the progress bar still is blue and not moving (for a couple of hours). When I go to quity File >Disk Utility, it warns me that Disk Utility is running and this may make my system unstable/unsuable.
QUESTION: CAN I JUST QUIT DISK UTILITY AND NOT HAVE ANY ADVERSE AFFECT ON MY IMAC DRIVE?

Thanks for your advice, I still have an issue:
-after the first repair disk permission "stalled" process, I exited Disk Utility and cold booted the machine after I had disconnected all external devices other than the original iMac keyboard
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-re-applied the combo patch and then did another cold boot
-ran Disk Utility from the original Tiger install #1 disk, and then selected "repair disk permissions" for my start up disk (I only have one)
- process ran for 10 minutes or so then gave the following error message: "Disk Utility Error: Disk Utility has lost its connection with disk utility management tool and cannot continue. Please quit disk utility and re-launch disk utility"
- I pushed the "stop disk permission repair" button, then quit disk utility, then cold booted the machine again.
-re-applied combo patch as above, then cold booted the machine
-ran disk utility from the original iMac install #1 disk, ran "repair disk permissions", and then received the same error message as above.
- I then just quit Disk Utility and cold booted the machine again and went about my business. There does not seem to be any problem with the machine (was not before, but I ran repair permissions thinkging this was a routine maintenance taks that should be run)
- in my prior search of the knowledge base, I found the following information about repair disk permissions:
Location: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607495&#607495
How often should I Repair Permissions?
You do not need to Repair Permissions on a regular basis.
There are only three occasions you need to do this:
1. When you have just installed something that required you to run an Installer, rather than just copying some software to a folder. This should be done for both Apple and non-Apple software.
2. When you have been working on your OS X files or folders while booted from OS 9, or remotely connected via a non-OS X machine, since OS 9 and other systems do not handle OS X's permissions correctly.
3. The other case is if your system is behaving strangely, when you should run Disk Repair from your CD followed by Repair Permissions. This is just to eliminate these things before going on to further trouble-shooting.
Otherwise you can happily forget about Permissions!"
So, it would appear I do not need to do anything else; the machine seems to be working properly. Is there anything else I need to do? thanks for the help! Bob

Mac Mini 2010 OS X Lion Stalled WiFi Connetion

I have a 2010 Mac Mini that has been upgraded to 10.7 from 10.6. It is fully patched. I've been experiencing dropped or stalled wifi connections where the system still shows 100% signal from the Airport Extreme Base Station. My base station has the 5GHZ and 2.4GHZ bands enabled, so I have switched between them when they stop working. It seems to work for about a minute after moving from band to band. Airport Utility ends up having the Base Station and the Internet icons turn orange.
I read an article about resetting the SMC and creating a new network location, but that hasn't seemed to help.
I've checked the Console log and I can tell that this is now affecting my Time Machine NAS backups.
What's next?
On a (probably) unrelated note, I did have some issues with the internal DVD drive in the past couple weeks. I'm not sure if I'm dealing with a hardware or software problem at this point.

Hello,
and creating a new network location, but that hasn't seemed to help.
Did you try all these steps?
Make a New Location, Using network locations in Mac OS X ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2712
10.7…
System Preferences>Network, top of window>Locations>Edit Locations, little plus icon, give it a name.
10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x instructions...
System Preferences>Network, click on the little gear at the bottom next to the + & - icons, (unlock lock first if locked), choose Set Service Order.
The interface that connects to the Internet should be dragged to the top of the list.
Instead of joining your Network from the list, click the WiFi icon at the top, and click join other network. Fill in everything as needed.
For 10.5/10.6, System Preferences>Network, unlock the lock if need be, highlight the Interface you use to connect to Internet, click on the advanced button, click on the DNS tab, click on the little plus icon, then add these numbers...
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Click OK.
Also, turn off IPv6:
System Preferences » Network » AirPort » TCP/IP tab » Configure IPv6
Or whatever Interface you use.

Issues with creating EXE in LV 9 (w/ patch)

When creating an executable in LV 9 (with the new patch installed), it is taking around 7 to 8 minutes to create the executable... where as in LV 8.5 it only took around 1 minute (same VI no changes).
After the EXE is done I go into my build folder and find the following folders: NI_HTML, NI_report, NI_Standard Report (these all containing actual VIs (not executables) from the above folder llbs. This never occurred in 8.5 nor in 7...what's going on here? I've got a few customers waiting on the EXE and am just stalled due to this.

This is a joke right? "cleaner method of distribution"?
So I have to do more work to upgrade NI's lower level LLBs in LV 9 when in the 1st place I paid NI to upgrade from 8.5 to 9... doesn't seem close to an upgrade (in regards to plug & play quality) to me! The resource page that supposedly shows you how to fix this issue is vague! ??????? Geesh.
Maybe this is a better way to do things with the "Object Oriented Program" & Classes... though, for a someone only a few years deep in LV...this is not efficient at all (NI is going to start killing it's marketable value if they make this any more difficult).
"Solution:
The Report Generation Toolkit 1.1.3
released with LabVIEW 8.6 was rewritten using LabVIEW classes and
LabVIEW Object Oriented Program. Because of these changes and the
improvements in performance, there are some files that currently are
added explicity to the build directory. Therefore, the behavior is
expected and the executable will run without problems. In a pursuit of
a cleaner method of distribution when configuring the Build
Specifications for executable, all the generated folders can be placed
into one support directory."

Updatemanager java.null.pointer exception in installing patches !

Hey,
I started Updatemanager and get 8 patches to be installed on my system. When I click: Install 8 items now I get an exception from updatemanager:
Updating the local cache complete.
inside AvailablePanel.applyUpdateCollection()
updateCollection: Current Available Updates
updateCollection.getUpdates().length: 8
mouse clicked at column index: 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.swup.client.engine.solaris.SolarisInstaller.beginInstall(SolarisInstaller.java:61)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.InstallDialog$InstallWorker.construct(InstallDialog.java:321)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.foundation.swing.SwingWorker$2.run(SwingWorker.java:109)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
and the installation process is stall. Nothing happens for hours so I have to manually kill the client, updatemanager. Every time I try I get this error which makes for me impossible to install patches !
anyone any ideas what's going on ? I'm running Solaris 10 GA.
thank you,
stefan

This issue should now be resolved. If you are using the Update Manager you will first need to manually update your analysis (click "Check for Updates") which will clear out the bad patch meta data causing the problem. You then should be able to use UM to install updates as intended.
thanks for your patience
-Dave

ITunes 10 stalls on playback with Library on USB (2 and 3), OS X 10.8.2 2.6 GHz intel i7, MP3 320 kbps, playback is fine using internal SSD...

All this power in a brand new mac-mini.. and iTunes is constantly stalling playback every 1 - 5 minutes (only when the iTunes Library is on external drives)..
(1 - 3 second silence interrupting playback then continuing...)
iTunes 10.7 (21) 64-bit
I'd prefer to keep my MP3 Library on USB 3.. and preserve the smaller internal SSD drive for other activity...
Is there an Apple certified technique to prevent disk spin down ?
Energy Saver control panel indicates that "Put hard disks to sleep when possible..." is unchecked..
Maybe iTunes could simply buffer larger sizes of the file, or the whole file.
(I have enough RAM to hold my entire 3 gig Library..)
(if the stall occurred only in between songs that would be acceptable)
Can we get an iTunes patch for this ???

Came across this article:
http://d43.me/blog/413/slow-startup-and-sleep-problems-on-macbook-pro-22/
Removed the 5 IOFirewire files removed from System/Library/Extensions and rebooted. Startup up within seconds!
Haven't used the firewire in a while, but I don't recall having any issues with it previously.
This worked, so I'm happy. Hopefully it sticks.

Safari Stalls on SOME pages - loading ads?

I moved an Intel Mini from an Airport network to an ethernet connection on the same network. Safari now has issues loading SOME but not all web pages. One page with a problem is www.macrumors.com - the content on the page loads but Safari stalls, apparently trying to load all the ads.
The stall makes it impossible to use Safari, and needs to be "force quit".
Other ethernet-connected Macs have no issues.
I've done the usual troubleshooting; DNS, disabling DNS prefetching, etc. but nothing seems to resolve the issue.

I have tried all of these solutions and find that at times nothing resolves the problem with Safari stalling except for switching from wi-fi to another connection method.   This is happening on different networks(routers) and is resolved if I disable wi-fi and connect via another means.    My 6 year old OS-X on a 11 yr. MacBook pro never has any issues and is ALWAYS 3 times faster than the new Safari runs on a much more powerful machine running on the same wi-fi network.   Wish I could switch back to the older Safari.
Here is my story:
When Yosemite came out I installed it (and have applied all available patches) on my MacBook Pro,MacBook Air and 2 IPhones and now having problem with Safari stalling at 25% load progress point in webpage download at a fairly high frequency.    YOSEMITE REALLY ***** -- need to now figure out how to the MAVERICKS installed.
Meanwhile, I have another MacBook Pro - 11 Yr. old and 6 yr. old Safari and it is rock solid reliable and on average it's 3 times faster in loading (when compared to YOSEMITE when it's working that is).      As a result,   I had to download anothe r browser and as you would expect, I am not having these problems with anothe r browser.
Avoid YOSEMITE is you care an ounce about have a reliable Safari browser.
Thanks for wasting my time Apple -- now I got the hours/hours of trying to reload 4 devices with MAVERICKS.
I believe the issue has to do with using Safari via a Wi-Fi connection as when I turn on Wi-Fi on the Iphone's the problem seems to be resolved.     Unfortunately it's not an easy option to disable Wi-Fi on the MacBook Pro's/Air as it wouldn't be much fun to connect up with an ethernet cable.    It's not the Wi-Fi connection itself as it happens on all Routers in multiple locations and the 11 yr. old MB running 6 yr old Safari doesn't have the same problem.

GCC with Symbol Visibility patch = faster apps (KDE 3.4)

I've checked gcc CVS PKGBUILD and I can't seem to find this patch in it. The patch is already present in GCC 4.
What is this patch useful for? (quote from here)
1. It very substantially improves load times of your DSO (Dynamic Shared Object)
For example, the TnFOX Boost.Python bindings library now loads in eight seconds rather than over six minutes!
2. It lets the optimiser produce better code
PLT indirections (when a function call or variable access must be looked up via the Global Offset Table such as in PIC code) can be completely avoided, thus substantially avoiding pipeline stalls on modern processors and thus much faster code. Furthermore when most of the symbols are bound locally, they can be safely elided (removed) completely through the entire DSO. This gives greater latitude especially to the inliner which no longer needs to keep an entry point around "just in case".
3. It reduces the size of your DSO by 5-20%
ELF's exported symbol table format is quite a space hog, giving the complete mangled symbol name which with heavy template usage can average around 1000 bytes. C++ templates spew out a huge amount of symbols and a typical C++ library can easily surpass 30,000 symbols which is around 5-6Mb! Therefore if you cut out the 60-80% of unnecessary symbols, your DSO can be megabytes smaller!
4. Much lower chance of symbol collision
The old woe of two libraries internally using the same symbol for different things is finally behind us with this patch. Hallelujah!
What I've understood from that webpage is that, in order to turn this on, the applications must be compiled with some certain flags (this provides GCC backward compatibility, even with this patch applied, IMO).
A comment here states that KDE 3.4 (upcomming version) supports this compile flag and it's (a lot) faster.
I haven't seen the PKGBUILD of KDE 3.4 beta 2 to check if it uses "-fvisibilty=hidden", but I suppose it does not since GCC is not patched.
Fedora, MDK 10.2 and Gentoo have this patch applied to GCC 3.4 (and KDE 3.4 betas are compiled with fvisibility in those distros, according to the comments there.
There's also "-fvisibility-inlines-hidden" which does not require any support from the application, but I think that's overriden by -fvisibility flag.

Well there are plenty of non-kde and kde specific features that are supplied as extras and would only benefit those users that need them (cups, samba, etc) to the rest of the users who may not like, want, or need them they get them anyway right now because in order to not keep recompiling package to add features Arch maintainers add the features in right from the get go. Modularity means that the packages may be built to support such features but will run without the supporting packages and the feature only works or gets enabled when you install the supporting packages.
Take transcode for example it really only has about four true dependencies but it can support all sorts of features all one has to do is install what supporting packages it needs to use these features. thsi allows the user to use whatever features or codecs they like and not have to rebuild in order to use a specific feature. It makess the maintainer's jobs alot easier because they can build all support in with only the minimal dependencies in the end.
Modularity works for all level and need of the user. The developers of KDE have to know that many users will want it all and many will want a slim KDE that is the nature of the user base in linux. Modularity caters to both.
(Modualrity has been a standard in kernels for years and should be the standard for big projects like kde,gnome, etc.)

Time Machine stalls on first backup of new iMac with 3TB Fusion Drive

I've got a brand new 27" iMac with latest patches up to OS X 10.9.1. I've loaded about 500GB of data onto this machine and wanted to make an intial Time Machine backup, so I connected a brand new 4TB Seagate Backup Plus USB 3.0 external hard drive, formatted the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), pointed Time Machine at it, and let it go. It ran up to about 30GB before I walked away. When I came back maybe 8–10 hours later it was still stopped at about 30GB. I stopped it, and tried again. This time it just went a couple of GB before halting. I can hear the external drive stop spinning because it isn't being accessed.
I also have a new 2TB Western Digital My Passport USB 3.0 external drive, so I formatted that as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and tried setting it as the Time Machine drive instead. Again Time Machine gets a little way into the backup before stalling and proceeding no further. I think this rules out the drive, since both drives behave the same way.
I also have Super Duper installed on this machine, so I tried doing a full disk copy to the WD drive and this worked flawlessly. This suggests that nothing is wrong with the drives themselves, as does the successful check of all three disks with Disk Utility.
I've checked "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off" in Energy Saver. I've unchecked "Put hard disks to sleep when possible". I've checked "Enable Power Nap". I set Time Machine back to using the 4TB Seagate Drive and have been letting it run as long as it wants to. It got up to 13.32GB this morning before seeming to stall this morning. 10 hours later when I got from work it's still at 13.32 GB and it still says "About 7 hours remaining", just as it did at 8:30am.
I've read a bunch of discussions on here about issues like this, which is where I came up with some of the things I've tried. So far, nothing has worked. Can anyone suggest a working solution? It seems like the Time Machine software just isn't workin

Pondini's site is excellent, but didn't happen to cover this problem (or Mavericks in particular as of yet). But I did call AppleCare support as you suggested, rkaufman87, where I was quickly escalated since I'd already tried the things the first tier support people start with. After some investigation via screen sharing and inspection of my system log (which suggested the stall involved issues with the index) the main change we made was to clear out the Time Machine preference files and Spotlight's cache before rebooting and trying again. This time the backup completed without stalling, and has continued to work ever since. Thanks for encouraging me to call support!

Bios patch warning on install? huh?

Hi
I am trying to leave the world of mac and microsoft... So I got me a Sun Java with AMD Opteron to play with... In any case I installed Sun OS 5.10 and got a warning about needing a bios patch due to an issue with the 64 bit AMD in the machine... Of course to make it more complicated I have a W1100z with... a 250 not a 150 opteron, So, After spending 4 to 6 hours looking through EVERYTHING I could in Sun... Yikes. I can not find this patch?
Now while I am new to Sun and UNIX I have some understanding of linux and bsd. I build and repair my own machines... but here at last I am stuck. Anyone know anything about this?
Lastly, The warning on my screen told of dire consequences if I do not do this patch. I am finding it true. The machine is acting odd... I am having issues getting online, sorta. I get on, get into sun and stall there. Hmmm... Perhaps I will read more in this matter, but the bios patch is bothering me.
Thanks!

Are you asking about the bios boot partition? Of so, all you need to do is create a 1-2MB partition with partition type EF02 in gdisk. You don't have to create a filesystem or anything. Just create the partition with the correct type code. I am not sure how to use gparted to do this. You may well have to do this from the command line, though I am not sure.
If you have already laid out your partitions and don't have space anymore, and don't want to go throught the process of shrinking filesystems and partitions to allow this small partition, you can try syslinux. I have become really fond of it recently, as it is much much simpler. The config file is edited by hand, and it is suepr straight forward.

Acrobat 8.3.1 stalls on opening

I have several new installs of Acrobat Standard 8.3.1 and they stall when opening the application. Within a few minutes, Windows come in and says Acrobat is not responding and the application is closed. These are on Windows 7 Enterprise x64 SP1.
I've repaired Acrobat via Add/Remove and reinstalled Acrobat and neither has worked.
This page: http://www/adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3750 describes what happens, but the patch is for Windows Vista. Three of the machines this is happening on are on the other side of the planet, so I'm hesitant to just try it without asking. One of the machines is closer, but I won't have access to it until next week. Another machine built within the same time-frame does not exhibit this behavior.
Here's what the event logs say:
The program Acrobat.exe version 8.3.1.289 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: c90
Start Time: 01ccf8a317fe0efb
Termination Time: 36
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe
Report Id: 888fc9c1-6496-11e1-8505-9439e58f5d0e
There are no problems in the Action Center control panel, as it suggests.
Faulting application name: Acrobat.exe, version: 8.3.1.289, time stamp: 0x4e5d952f
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b8f
Exception code: 0xc00000fd
Fault offset: 0x0002dede
Faulting process id: 0x1b20
Faulting application start time: 0x01ccf8af866559ed
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Sometimes Acrotray.exe is the faulting application.
Faulting application name: acrotray.exe, version: 8.3.1.289, time stamp: 0x4e5d469d
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b8f
Exception code: 0xc00000fd
Fault offset: 0x0005b6ee
Faulting process id: 0x750
Faulting application start time: 0x01ccf89bc19022ed
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\acrotray.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 481665e1-648f-11e1-8505-9439e58f5d0e
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Best Regards,
Dano

I am probably going to disappoint you, but to my knowledge no one has reported a successful install of AA8 on Win 7, 64-bit. In any case, you should be logged in as administrator for the install and have anti-virus disabled. I assume you did the latter two. You will also probably have to run AA8 in a 32-bit compatibility mode. There is a chance that the latest update will work, but I would not be surprised if none of them work. On a 32-bit machine, folks have reported success with AA8 in Win7. I have even installed AA5 on Win7, 32-bit -- but AcroTray does not work in that case. This does likely not help, but at least it gives you some small ideas.

Ath9k slow an unreliable; carl9170 randomly stalls

I've been trying (unsuccessfully) for months to get reliable wireless on a desktop. I have tried three different cards, each with different chipsets.
The one I would like to get working most is the D-Link DWA-556, which is based on the ath9k chipset AR5416+AR2133. (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=549) I specifically bought this card after looking online for what seemed to be the most compatible wireless N card for Linux after having problems with my previous cards. Everything seemed to point to the drivers being of decent quality and having it work without too much effort. Boy, was that wrong.
Most of the time it will fail to grab the address from DHCP. Sometimes it will connect successfully, but it is incredibly slow. Running online broadband speed tests will typically show speeds of around 0.5 Mbps, and local file transfers are around 500 KBps.
Looking online, I saw this kernel bug (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31452), but the fix was committed in 2.6.38.5 and I am currently on 2.6.38.6. There were other posts online recommending disabling hardware encryption with the ath9k module option "nohwcrypt=1", but that didn't seem to fix it. In fact, after disabling hardware encryption it seemed to make it more likely for DHCP to time out, and that persisted even after re-enabling hardware encryption and even rebooting. I also tried to install compat-wireless-patched and compat-wireless-patched-daily from AUR to no effect. (normal compat-wireless fails to compile...)
Here are the messages in everything.log when it fails to connect:
May 14 13:55:40 localhost kernel: [ 981.483682] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
May 14 13:55:43 localhost kernel: [ 984.405389] wlan0: authenticate with 00:18:e7:ef:ea:9e (try 1)
May 14 13:55:43 localhost kernel: [ 984.411455] wlan0: authenticated
May 14 13:55:43 localhost kernel: [ 984.411475] wlan0: associate with 00:18:e7:ef:ea:9e (try 1)
May 14 13:55:43 localhost kernel: [ 984.609945] wlan0: associate with 00:18:e7:ef:ea:9e (try 2)
May 14 13:55:43 localhost kernel: [ 984.622492] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:18:e7:ef:ea:9e (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
May 14 13:55:43 localhost kernel: [ 984.622494] wlan0: associated
May 14 13:55:43 localhost kernel: [ 984.624830] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
May 14 13:55:45 localhost avahi-daemon[1786]: Registering new address record for fe80::5ed9:98ff:feb1:39fe on wlan0.*.
May 14 13:55:49 localhost dhcpcd[1873]: version 5.2.12 starting
May 14 13:55:49 localhost dhcpcd[1873]: wlan0: rebinding lease of 192.168.0.104
May 14 13:55:54 localhost kernel: [ 995.056604] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
May 14 13:55:59 localhost dhcpcd[1873]: timed out
May 14 13:55:59 localhost avahi-daemon[1786]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::5ed9:98ff:feb1:39fe on wlan0.
May 14 13:55:59 localhost kernel: [ 1000.574481] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:18:e7:ef:ea:9e by local choice (reason=3)
May 14 13:55:59 localhost kernel: [ 1000.605166] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
May 14 13:55:59 localhost kernel: [ 1000.605502] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
My fallback is what I was using before, which is a USB wireless N dongle based on the ar9170 chipset. (http://www.iogear.com/product/GWU623/) It mostly works alright, if a little slow for my tastes for local file transfers, (around 2.5 MBps) but the big problem is the network will sometimes stall for a couple minutes. There don't appear to be any messages in the logs when this happens, and iwconfig and ifconfig still say that it's connected, but any attempts to access the network fail until it comes back in a couple minutes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. To say this has been frustrating is a great understatement.
Last edited by akb825 (2011-05-15 09:08:38)

A little more information: Here's the output for iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"d20"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417 GHz Access Point: 00:18:E7:EF:EA:9E
Bit Rate=104 Mb/s Tx-Power=19 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=40/70 Signal level=-70 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:64 Missed beacon:0
Despite this decent looking output for bit rate and signal, scp is currently transferring at around 60 KB/s. However, the "Invalid misc" part seems to be increasing at a fast rate when transferring data. (after around a minute of letting scp run, it had an additional 100 "Invalid misc") This seems to be similar to the kernel bug that I linked to, but it happens regardless of hardware encryption and the version of the kernel I am running already has the fix, though it's possible it's a separate bug related bug.

Stalling:Error in background rendering so switching to foreground rendering after 0 frames completed

Our facility is running AE CS6 ver 11.0.0.378 on 8 core Mac Pros with 32 Gb ram running OSX10.6.8
using Thinkbox Deadline 5.2 for distributed rendering to other 8 Core Mac Pros with 32 Gb ram.
The issue is that we are in crunch mode trying to deliver 4K comps (soon to be 8k comps) and we are experience substantial
delays 10-20 minutes after the AERENDER starts, but before it starts doing any fruitful rendering.
We are reading from and writing to Quicktime movie files (which normally works just fine for us) and thus the entire frame range needs
to get computed on a single host.
The symptom is that many comp jobs (but not all) stall for a while with no apparent actibity before spitting this messgage, but then happily
and swiftly complete each frame in a second or less with no errors:
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS:   There is an error in background rendering so switching to foreground rendering after 0 frames completed out of total 576 frames.
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: 00001 (1): 20 Min, 16 Sec
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: 00002 (2): 1 Seconds
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: 00003 (3): 0 Seconds
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: 00004 (4): 1 Seconds
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: 00005 (5): 2 Seconds
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: 00006 (6): 1 Seconds
Given that the delay, seems to be related to the number of frames (350 frames creates a 10 min stall and 576 frames creates a 20 minute stall), it seems like it's trying to do something for every frame in background mode, before it gives up and does them quickly
in foreground mode. During this time, there doesn't seem to be any signficant CPU or Network or IO activity. I looked for command line args that might force AERENDER to foreground mode, but didn't find anything.
Here's what the digested submission args look like.
0: INFO: Startup Directory: "/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6"
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process Affinity: default
0: INFO: Process is now running
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: 12/6/12 10:37:54 AM PST: Starting composition sc20_assem_R_v57 .
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Render Settings: Best Settings
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Quality: Best
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Resolution: Full
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Size: 1200 x 860
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Proxy Use: Use No Proxies
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Effects: Current Settings
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Disk Cache: Read Only
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Color Depth: Current Settings
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Frame Blending: On for Checked Layers
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Field Render: Off
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Pulldown: Off
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Motion Blur: On for Checked Layers
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS:
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Solos: Current Settings
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Time Span: Custom
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Start: 00001
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: End: 00576
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Duration: 00576
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Frame Rate: 23.976 (comp)
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Guide Layers: All Off
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Skip Existing Files: Off
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS:
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Output Module: APR_422HQ - Millions
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Output To: /Volumes/Renders/Scenes/20/sc20_assem_R_v57_r1_2k.mov
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Format: QuickTime
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Output Info: Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Output Info: Spatial Quality = 100
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Include: Project Link
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Output Audio: Off
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Channels: RGB
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Depth: Millions of Colors
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Color: Premultiplied
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Resize: -
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Crop: -
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Final Size: 1200 x 860
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Profile: -
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Embed Profile:
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS:
0: STDOUT: PROGRESS: Post-Render Action: None
We're under the gun to get this production delivered, and these delays are killing us. I worry when we switch to 8K comps
that the "fruitless delay time" will just get longer.
I'm currently trying to correlate the plug-in assortments in effect for the shots that exhibit this behaviour. Clearly in "foreground mode" the machines are capable of rendering the shot quickly.   We've speculated, that posibly some plugins may be GPU or OpenGL accelerated (these machines have ATI Radeon HD 5770 cards) despite the fact that AERENDER probably doesn't require special graphics cards).
Anyone have any ideas, especially if there is some way for force the foreground mode from the start?
Regards,
Jay Production IT Support.

Just to follow up, Our compositing supervisor was still convinced that running with MP was the way to go, so I worked
with him to run some benchmarks on medium and heavy shots that we determinied would trigger the issue in -MP mode.
The test scene was about 50 frames in length, and we ran it on the same hosts with -MP on and -MP off, and also ran a
version of bundled frames (10 frames per host/task) and another where we did all 50 frames on a single host (with and without MP).
Interestingly, in every scenerio of these 4 cases, the version with -MP on, was 2-15% faster (despite the 10-11 minute delay at the start in MP mode).
His conclusion was it's still faster with -MP mode ON, and requested that I continue to explore for patches or theories how we might get around the delay.
Have read links:
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1025525
http://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/en/after-effects/using/memory-storage1.html
Regards,
-Jay-

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