Strange Stats

Hi,
Anyone care to comment in regards to these stats. Very high d/s CRC errors and NO d/s FEC errors even though I'm apparently interleaved. ( I would usually have relatively high FEC and low CRC d/s errors) Incidentally, I have noticed that my ping has halved on Speedtest.net. Which to my uneducated thinking, would seem to indicate that I'm on fast path.
I know the high u/s figures for CRC and FEC are a known router bug btw.
TIA
Regards
Alan.
Line state
Connected
Connection time
5 days, 14:44:51
Downstream
5,199 Kbps
Upstream
1,023 Kbps
VPI/VCI
0/38
Type
PPPoA
Modulation
ITU-T G.992.5
Latency type
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up)
7.6 dB / 5.6 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up)
50.0 dB / 26.6 dB
Output power (Down/Up)
0.0 dBm / 12.9 dBm
Loss of Framing (Local)
0
Loss of Signal (Local)
0
Loss of Power (Local)
0
FEC Errors (Down/Up)
0 / 4294967234
CRC Errors (Down/Up)
21086 / 2147480000
HEC Errors (Down/Up)
nil / 0
Error Seconds (Local)
8036

My Sn margin is and never has been lower than 9 Db
Line state
Connected
Connection time
2 days, 19:21:57
Downstream
8,128 Kbps
Upstream
448 Kbps
ADSL settings
VPI/VCI
0/38
Type
PPPoA
Modulation
ITU-T G.992.1
Latency type
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up)
9.1 dB / 24.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up)
10.0 dB / 4.5 dB
Download speedachieved during the test was - 6133 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 600-7150 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :8128 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 7150 Kbps
So all though 6Db is the target margin you may never achieve it and dont realy need to
If any post helps tick the star box on the left
Just cause Im paranoid dont mean they are not out to get me

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>
Tomas Toth wrote:
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>
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>
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I find I can also log out of the admin account on the Mini, log back in, and still connect to the iMac without typing in a password. Okay, we've gone from "surprising" to "unsettling."
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Yes, what you describe is exactly what happened. I wouldn't have written what I did without trying it first.
That said, I tried it again after reading your post, and it isn't happening now. In the meantime I've rebooted both of the computers in question and tinkered with a few settings, so it may be that the remote Mac was in a strange state that I've somehow jarred it out of. Or maybe I was just seeing things. In either case, I appreciate your taking the time to clarify the issue, and I'll allow myself to breathe a tentative sigh of relief -- on the assumption it'll keep working the way it is now.
On a more theoretical level ...
Although I understand that connection credentials are intended to persist, I'm not entirely convinced that there's nothing wrong with this. The blog I linked in my original post cites an example of how this arrangement can lead a user to inadvertently grant another user access to files on a remote machine.
Let's say my wife needs a file that I know I have in my admin account on my iMac. Rather than walk all the way over to my desk and put the file in her dropbox, I get her to scoot over, log into the iMac remotely, and drag the file onto her desktop. Then I unmount the iMac and let her get back to work. Presto! I've just given her access to my admin account (and indeed the whole iMac) for 10 hours.
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Hi BKN,
Thanks for your post and sorry to hear you are in the same situation (but it's good not to be alone ;-)
Some notes on your comments (can't seem to easily split quoted messages here):
1. I don't seem to get the "Unexpected connection closure..." error from iTunes that you get (not sure that is significant though)
2. With regards to the special character(s) in the filename. I have hex edited the manifest.mbdb and changed my "&" to a "A" in the filename and the problem still existed (with an "A" in the error path), so I hope we can rule that out.
3. I have not really used Omnigraffle iCloud syncing, just turned on iCloud at the end of the change-over period and haven't used it for file sync-ing (at least not that I know of), so perhaps can rule that out.
4. I have Dropbox running on Mac and client is on iPad (and iPhones). I don't think my Omnigraffle docs have come anywhere near Dropbox though, again not use Omnigraffle on iPad for a while. Have used on Mac quite a bit though.
5. I am still running Lion on my MacBook Pro and the machine doing the iTunes syncing is a Mac mini running Snow Leopard Server, so I think we can rule out iCloud issues, again since I haven't really gotten into iCloud yet.
I have done a lot of investigating and experimenting (with no luck unfortunately). I have used iBackupRobot (free version that works well, click cancel past the registration dialogs to get full functionality I believe) and Hex Fiend as mentioned above.
I also tried another one (called iBackupRestore or something like that but it required mono and X, which I had, but ran very slowly and failed - I think it only works for iOS4 or less). So, don't try that.
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Documents_Site Wireframe & Mockup.graffle
Documents_Site Wireframe & Mockup.graffle_data.plist
Documents_Site Wireframe & Mockup.graffle_data.plist.info
Documents_Site Wireframe & Mockup.graffle_QuickLook_Preview.pdf
Documents_Site Wireframe & Mockup.graffle_QuickLook_Preview.pdf.info
Documents_Site Wireframe & Mockup.graffle.info
_ is for /
The .info files just contain details of the mapping from real filename to the hex filenames inside the backup (useful to find the files and remove them as I did, see below).
I noticed that the data.plist file seemed to be empty so I filled it with content from another data.plist file in Omnigraffle's documents. Interestingly, the error message changed a bit then (IIRC) to this:
20/10/12 10:47:40 PM
[0x0-0x37b37b].com.apple.iTunes[4493]
2012-10-20 22:47:40.605 AppleMobileBackup[30109:903] ERROR: Restore message response: 102 mkdir error: No such file or directory (2) at path "/var/mobile/Applications/8AF90D98-FB52-4E3E-877F-FD0A0F45C0A1/Documents/Site Wireframe & Mockup.graffle/QuickLook" (MBErrorDomain/102)
Note the path no longer includes SafeHarbor (which I believe is the temporary storage area whilst apps are being loaded etc). So some progress but a very similar error.
I have tried removing the hex-name files from the backup but MobileBackup detects them and says the backup is corrupt and will not proceed. The problem is I can't see how we can edit the manifest.mbdb (apart from simple hex editing).
I've tried editing the plist files Manifest.plist and info.plist file (with Property List editor) but again no luck, deleting items (Omnigraffle application entries) is detected as a corrupt backup and MobileBackup will not proceed.
It is interesting how it is the QuickLook folder that is listed in the error. Mine contains a Preview.pdf file which seems to be fine.
I'm also not sure what the error message actually means. I guess it mean that when trying to create the QuickLook directory the path up to there didn't exist (e.g. the "Site Wireframe & Mockup.graffle" directory or one of its parents didn't exist).
I could be wrong though.
I visited an Apple Store and tried to talk to a Genius but didn't get much help from the iPad Genius (should have registered for a Mac Genius apparently), he admitted he wasn't a Mac or iPad Genius (good on him) and went out back to ask his guru colleague.
He came back and said his colleague thought the real error was the -1, which he said indicated a hardware fault.
I don't think they knew what they were talking about, on some Apple support pages it does refer to -1 being something about hardware / comms fault, but I also think it is just a catch-all error code for iTunes when it doesn't know what else to report.
He suggested trying on another iPad but I don't have one and he wouldn't let me use one of theirs. I guess I could buy one and return it after testing for a refund, but I doubt it is a hardware problem myself.
I was hoping they may have some secret way to force the restore to continue or to selectively ignore certain applications on restoring (which may come to iTunes one day I hope). It seems the Apple stores don't specialise in this kind of suppor though.
He suggested ringing Apple phone support / Applecare but I wasn't too keen on trying to explain this and share details over the phone. I might give it a go, even though you had no success because I might luck out on someone who knows more etc.
I think I have done a full reset, sync'ed all apps and then tried the restore - fail.
I have tried so many things I am now having trouble remembering what I tried and how each failed.
My restore seems to go pretty well for quite a while before it fails, so I think it is restoring it's just getting an error when doing this one document for Omnigraffle and can't get past that.
If we could stop it restoring Omnigraffle I think we would be good to go but, as mentioned above, I can't see how we could do that without some serious editing of the backup, especially the plists and manifest.mbdb, but I am not expert ont hose.
Very sad to hear that Apple had no ways to work around a file or error. I think it is a fault in their restore software - it is too fragile, not catching the said error and fixing the directory path. But I am not holding my breathe for them to assist (but will try to get help).
Thanks for your notes and please keep me informed of how you go / if I can help in anyway.
Unfortunately, I am very busy at work these days and can only work on this on the weekends.
Cheers,
Ashley.

Editing titles or clicking on clips causes serious error

Problem with new mac mini (purchased two days ago), no problem on iMac (with
same software install, checked with system profiler). Tried with two mac minis
(replaced the just purchased one with a replacement after a discussion with a genius)
Mac OS X : 10.5.7
iMovie 09' : 8.0.2 (741)
Editing titles/text, changing titles/back ground lengths causes. Could be associated with generally clicking on clips (possibly double clicking)
1) Loss of control of inspector window
2) Inability to share the video (the options are greyed out)
3) Inability to return to the project selection window
4) Inability to add more titles/backgrounds
5) Inspector seems trapped in a strange state, unable to close
iMovie reports the following messages via console(as example)
18/05/2009 16:23:11 iMovie[325] NSMutableRLEArray objectAtIndex:effectiveRange:: Out of bounds
this error repeats many times.
Anyone please help!

Since this is a new rig, I'm assuming this is a PPro CS6 installation you're referring to?

IPhone Camera disabled?

This appeared, possibly due to the update, perhaps not.
After buying my iPhone I went on a road trip and took severa hundered pictures using my iPhone, and they turned out great!
About a week later, which is about two days ago, I turned my camera on on the iPhone and my camera appears to be disabled.
The screen is black and the camera button doesn't work to take a picture. If I rotate the camera, the button icon rotates, but thats about all I can do.
I really hope I accidentally disabled the camera, somehow, and the iPhone is ok. I really love it (WTG Apple!) and I hope my iPhone isn't broken
Any ideas before I try the Restore in iTunes?

Wow, thanks for your replies.
I have tried reset a few times also, and am now in the midst of my 1st Restore. Was hoping it would help, but from what I'm reading here I won't keep my hopes up.
It's a strange state the camera has got in, when you go to camera, you still see the shutter open, but just to a black screen, and the photo button is disabled, so the iPhone software must know it's not getting anything from the hardware.
Update: the Restore didn't work, though it did restore it to version 1.01, the version that I had the issue with afterwards, and not 1.00. Guess I will be heading to the Apple store tomorrow also.
Thanks for your help!
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