Hi all, This is sort of a last ditch effort before I re-install.... A few hours ago, copy and paste stopped working on my MBP (running 10.5.4). Sure enough pboard was dead. I decided to reboot, just in case anything else got messed up. Now it will not start at all. Running "launchctl list" does not show it, and if I try and explicitly list it, I get the following error message: % launchctl list com.apple.pboard launch_msg(): Socket is not connected I get the same error message if I try to load com.apple.pboard.plist. I've also noticed that Apache and ssh-agent also are no longer starting, either, so something is definitely wonky with some of the system daemons. There are probably other critical daemons not starting, I imagine, too. Note: there's plenty of free disk space (32 GB). Any other idea? I'm nearly ready to re-install at this point. Thanks, -Dave
On Aug 28, 2008, at 11:36 PM, Dave Dribin wrote:
Hi all,
This is sort of a last ditch effort before I re-install.... A few hours ago, copy and paste stopped working on my MBP (running 10.5.4). Sure enough pboard was dead. I decided to reboot, just in case anything else got messed up. Now it will not start at all. Running "launchctl list" does not show it, and if I try and explicitly list it, I get the following error message:
% launchctl list com.apple.pboard launch_msg(): Socket is not connected
Well, somehow /private/tmp went missing. Recreated it, and now all is fine. I've no idea how that happened. Anyhow, please disregard this last message. One thing, though... isn't there some script that clears out /private/ tmp at startup? Perhaps it should also check to make sure it exists? Actually, it looks like /etc/rc used to do just that on 10.4. Where does this happen on 10.5 now? launchd itself? I didn't see anything in the source. -Dave
On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:18 AM, Dave Dribin wrote:
One thing, though... isn't there some script that clears out /private/ tmp at startup? Perhaps it should also check to make sure it exists? Actually, it looks like /etc/rc used to do just that on 10.4. Where does this happen on 10.5 now? launchd itself? I didn't see anything in the source.
I just confirmed that if /private/tmp is not present on boot, it does not get re-created and then Bad Things happen (one of which is no pboard daemon). I'm still not seeing where /private/tmp gets cleared on boot for 10.5. Best I can come up with is /etc/periodic/daily/110.clean-tmps. -Dave
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