Re: itunes

[Baldassare Guzzo]

Thanks for the good reading.


On May 14, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:



On May 14, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote:

Ok.  Created a new user account and everything worked. Now where  
else do I look?  Deleted plist files.  Anything else I'm missing?   
How do I locate the corrupted files?


First I'd rebuild your iTunes library:

First try this, in case it's just the database:



The other way is more laborious: back up all your music files,  
delete the itunes library in your account and drag the music files  
back from the backup into an open iTune library window.


If you suspect a certain music file itself is messed up, there's  
always the old classic Extensions debug:


create a playlist with half the songs; burn it, if it fails, take  
out half the songs, if it succeeds burn the other half.


Rinse and repeat until you've found the offending item.

Really silly question, did you try deleting and recreating the  
playlist with a different name?


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Re: itunes

[Baldassare Guzzo]

I did remake the playlist with a different name.  I even made a few new ones 
with different music.  None of them worked.  I'll try rebuilding library next.  

On May 14, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Bruce Johnson  wrote:

> 
> On May 14, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote:
> 
>> Ok.  Created a new user account and everything worked. Now where else do I 
>> look?  Deleted plist files.  Anything else I'm missing?  How do I locate the 
>> corrupted files?
> 
> First I'd rebuild your iTunes library:
> 
> First try this, in case it's just the database:
> 
> 
> 
> The other way is more laborious: back up all your music files, delete the 
> itunes library in your account and drag the music files back from the backup 
> into an open iTune library window. 
> 
> If you suspect a certain music file itself is messed up, there's always the 
> old classic Extensions debug:
> 
> create a playlist with half the songs; burn it, if it fails, take out half 
> the songs, if it succeeds burn the other half. 
> 
> Rinse and repeat until you've found the offending item.
> 
> Really silly question, did you try deleting and recreating the playlist with 
> a different name?
> 
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Re: itunes

[Bruce Johnson]

On May 14, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote:

> Ok.  Created a new user account and everything worked. Now where else do I 
> look?  Deleted plist files.  Anything else I'm missing?  How do I locate the 
> corrupted files?

First I'd rebuild your iTunes library:

First try this, in case it's just the database:



The other way is more laborious: back up all your music files, delete the 
itunes library in your account and drag the music files back from the backup 
into an open iTune library window. 

If you suspect a certain music file itself is messed up, there's always the old 
classic Extensions debug:

create a playlist with half the songs; burn it, if it fails, take out half the 
songs, if it succeeds burn the other half. 

Rinse and repeat until you've found the offending item.

Really silly question, did you try deleting and recreating the playlist with a 
different name?

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Re: login failing

[Geke]

Here’s the sequel:

After my post, I realized that when I restored the boot partition with
CCC, I had set CCC to leave alone files that were not matching. So I
guessed the error could be in the files that were not replaced. Then I
did the same again, except this time I installed a fresh system on
another partition of the same harddisk and that works normally.
So the computer works again, and I’m pretty sure I can repair the
original boot partition, but I haven’t done it yet so I can experiment
a bit using your ideas.

I looked around and deleted some preference files on the broken
partition (preferences.plist in SystemConfiguration) but that didn’t
do the trick.

Then, I tried booting from the broken partition with Safe Boot, but
that gave me exactly the same behaviour I had seen before: slow
startup, and on top of the progress box comes that login dialog. The
only difference were the words "safe boot" in red. So maybe the broken
partition is automatically booting in safe mode for some reason?

As that computer doesn’t have a DVD drive, I couldn’t start up with
the OS X disk as Bruce suggested. And I can fire up Terminal, but
that’s about all I know about it...
I did check the Shift key... I’m going to try Cmd-V during startup,
even just for seeing how "verbose" looks like.

Thanks Kris and Bruce for the suggestions!



On 12 mei, 23:01, Bruce Johnson  wrote:
> On May 12, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Geke wrote:
>
> > I wonder what's going on: Yesterday, this G4 Mystic still worked
> > normally, logging into one user account automatically at startup.
> > Today, startup takes a lot longer, and at the end I'm asked to enter
> > user name and password.
>
> Step 1:
>
> hold down Command-V while turing it on, this will get you a verbose boot up, 
> you might be able to determine what's taking so long.
>
> Step 2:
>
> Boot from your OS X disk which will allow you to change the password(s) of 
> any admin accounts. 10.4 also lets you get to terminal from the install disk, 
> which will let yuo explore the HDD to see, for instance if, someone has been 
> mucking with the system prefs and such (showing the boxes for name and 
> password, versus lists is a login option accessible to any admin user in the 
> Accounts pref pane)
>
> Could be something as simple as a stuck shift key, which will cause it to 
> take much longer to boot and (I believe) show the boxes for username/password 
> (All my macs are set to do it this way anyway and always have been, so I 
> don't remember if this is the default on a default system)
>
> --
> Bruce Johnson
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> College of Pharmacy
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>
> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

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Re: itunes

[Baldassare Guzzo]

Ok.  Created a new user account and everything worked. Now where else do I 
look?  Deleted plist files.  Anything else I'm missing?  How do I locate the 
corrupted files?
Thanks all!
On May 14, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Bruce Johnson  wrote:

> 
> On May 14, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote:
> 
>> Just music.  No new drivers available.  Heard about a glitch that you have 
>> to install "Burnpatch".  Tried that,  but the instant you click "burn" on 
>> itunes screen - it just quits and generates an error report for Apple.   I 
>> called the people who sold me the unit.  They said it's itunes problem when 
>> using 10.4 and iTunes 9.2.  They recommend deleting about 25 plist files.  
>> If that doesnt work - create a new iTunes account with Apple.  If that 
>> doesnt work then go to iTunes 9.1 !
> 
> 
> Before you go to this extreme, create a new user account, toss some songs 
> into the iTunes library and see if you can burn there or still get the error.
> 
> If you can burn there, the issue is with something local to your user 
> account: preferences, a corrupted iTunes library, a corrupted music file 
> (although ones that prevent burning don't play well, either)
> 
> If you still have the problems it may be related to iTunes or the system.
> 
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Re: itunes

[Bruce Johnson]

On May 14, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote:

> Just music.  No new drivers available.  Heard about a glitch that you have to 
> install "Burnpatch".  Tried that,  but the instant you click "burn" on itunes 
> screen - it just quits and generates an error report for Apple.   I called 
> the people who sold me the unit.  They said it's itunes problem when using 
> 10.4 and iTunes 9.2.  They recommend deleting about 25 plist files.  If that 
> doesnt work - create a new iTunes account with Apple.  If that doesnt work 
> then go to iTunes 9.1 !


Before you go to this extreme, create a new user account, toss some songs into 
the iTunes library and see if you can burn there or still get the error.

If you can burn there, the issue is with something local to your user account: 
preferences, a corrupted iTunes library, a corrupted music file (although ones 
that prevent burning don't play well, either)

If you still have the problems it may be related to iTunes or the system.

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Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

[Bruce Johnson]

On May 14, 2011, at 1:25 AM, Ralph Green wrote:

>  I insist on no such thing.  I just steer clear of it.  No fear
> mongering is involved.  Just rational analysis. 

Hence the use of rational, non-emotional words like 'treacherous' and 'His 
Steveness' and 'control freak'. 8-/

The *hardware* cannot be set to do what you claim, because the control of TPM 
is done by  SOFTWARE. (and in software I'm including any firmware or EFI code 
to enable it because both EFI and firmware are re-writeable.)

RMS has problems with proprietary* OS'es and TPM because they could be used to 
implement such controls as you describe, but the presence of a TPM chip alone 
can not do that. The link to the Amit Singh article with accompanying source 
code proves that. You can make the TPM module accept an arbitrary key pair for 
verification.

Indeed, it should be possible to write a TPM driver that ensures that only 
truly GPL'ed and open code can run.

It would involve some seriously gnarly (gnu-rly?) key management and 
verification stuff and require servers to do that (akin to PGP key exchanges 
and trust relationships) but it could be done. GPL violations could be handled 
by revocation of the key. Boom! Violating code no longer runs. It's like 
turning the Empire's strength against it.

So to speak. 8-P

*well,aside from his problems with proprietary software, full stop.

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Re: itunes

[Baldassare Guzzo]

Just music.  No new drivers available.  Heard about a glitch that you  
have to install "Burnpatch".  Tried that,  but the instant you click  
"burn" on itunes screen - it just quits and generates an error report  
for Apple.   I called the people who sold me the unit.  They said  
it's itunes problem when using 10.4 and iTunes 9.2.  They recommend  
deleting about 25 plist files.  If that doesnt work - create a new  
iTunes account with Apple.  If that doesnt work then go to iTunes 9.1 !



On May 13, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Trinette Johnson wrote:

What kinda of files are you trying to burn in iTunes? Also the  
drivers might need a upgrade for your device.


Sent from my iPod

On May 7, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Baldassare Guzzo  wrote:


PM G4 933  10.4.11  iTunes 9.2.1

Hi everyone.  iTunes plays fine but if I go to burn a cd, I get   
"The application iTunes quit unexpectedly".  Tried a few times. 
This is something new but I have not changed much on the Mac  
recently.  My Superdrive is new (Pioneer DVR 118L)  but have used  
it plenty over the past few months with no problems so far.

I see this in system log:
"May  5 08:15:28 Baldassare-Guzzos-Computer crashdump[846]: iTunes  
crashed"
"May  5 08:13:21 Baldassare-Guzzos-Computer /Applications/ 
iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes: CGSImageCreateWithDevice:  
Invalid device image"
"May  5 08:13:21 Baldassare-Guzzos-Computer /Applications/ 
iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes: ripc_DrawWindowContents - Cannot  
acquire window image"


Any idea's?


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Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

[Arnel Tuazon]

On 10/05/11 12:50 PM, "Bruce Johnson"  wrote:

> 
> On May 10, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Jack Countryman wrote:
> 
>> "IPC 10.5.6"??  What's IPC mean here, or where do I find that version of
>> 10.5.6?  Yeah, I know...you know what you mean, but I'm not that much up to
>> speed on this stuff anymore, and must have missed the post somewhere that
>> talks about what IPC is in this context?(Last one I built that really
>> worked was with the Kalyway distro...several years ago...if that gives you an
>> idea of how far out of sync I am.)  I'd really like to get a 10.6 machine
>> going one of these times...just to show it can be done...  Thanks.
> 
> We are veering off into dealing with illegal torrents of altered OS X'es,
> which really isn't necessary.
> 
> Go to these sources:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> For a wealth of information on building a Hack that DOES NOT REQUIRE altering
> the OS X installer; you install from the standard OS X disk.
> 
> And at this point we're S far off topic, I expect the Nanny will close the
> thread.


Thanks for the links Bruce!  I looked at the tonyx86 site and I've just
ordered my parts.  Wish me luck!  I was planning on saving up for a Mac Pro,
but if this gets me to the promised land on the cheap then I'm a happy
camper =).


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Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

[Ralph Green]

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 15:15 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> On May 13, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Ralph Green wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 09:46 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> >> On May 12, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Ralph Green wrote:
> >> 
> >>>  I called Apple hardware treacherous.  I did not come up with
> >>> that term.  It is widely used,
> >> 
> >> No it isn't because you're the only person I've ever read or heard making 
> >> that claim.
> >> 
> >  I think it is interesting that because you have not heard it, that you
> > can assert it is not widely used.  
> > 
> > Here is a 5 year old reference to it.
> >  http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/55765 
> > 
> > Read one of the original documents about treacherous computing
> >  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
> > 
> 
> Richard Stallman is one of the giants of computer science, but he's
>  also pretty much an extremist. Unless you are like RMS and closely
>  examine every line of the source code for every bit of software
>  running on your computer, at some point you have to trust the
>  creators of the hardware and software that they are on the up-and-up. 
> 
> Simply asserting a worst-case-scenario and  comparing it to Franklin's
>  beloved quote about security and liberty, is engaging in deceptive
>  hyperbole, FUD in other words.
> 
> It's like arguing that roads are an intolerable infringement on your
>  right to drive anywhere your vehicle could travel, and a tyrannical
>  imposition on personal liberty by the treacherous state.
> 
  You sure seem to like straw dog arguments.  I don't assert a worst
case scenario.  I just avoid one.  If I have 2 choices, where one leaves
me in control and one gives some other person arbitrary control over my
property, I pick the one where I have control.  That is just rational,
not extreme.  I don't know what the odds of Apple trying to shut things
down are.  I think they are probably low, but His Steveness is such a
control freak that it is naive not to consider the possibility.
  I have met Richard Stallman and spent time talking to him one on one.
He is clearly an extremist and I disagree with him about a lot.  His
extremism has also benefited society quite a bit and I am grateful that
he has been here.  I referred to him as just one example that I did not
invent the terms you acted like I did.  Do you at least see that I did
not coin the phrase treacherous computing and I am not alone in using
the terminology?  You said I was the only person you had heard or read
making that claim and I pointed you to evidence.  I work mostly within
the open source community and I do hear the phrase fairly often.

> 
> > If you doubt that Apple uses TPM, read about it:
> >  http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter10/tpm/
> 
> Yes. Also read where it says, and I quote:
> 
> "No TPM for You! Next!
> At the time of this writing (October 2006), the newest Apple computer
>  models, such as the MacPro and possibly the revised MacBook Pro and
>  the revised iMac, do not contain an onboard Infineon TPM. Apple
>  could bring the TPM back, perhaps, if there were enough interest
>  (after all, it is increasingly common to find TPMs in current notebook
>  computers), but that's another story."
> 
 Perhaps Apple has removed TPM.  It is in their interest to say so.
Apple often acts like control freaks, but they are generally honest.  I
already said I plan to look for confirmation of this.  I'll find someone
with boards I can examine, but that will take a while.  I really hope
that Apple has reversed their early x86 decision to use TPM and then
I'll consider Apple x86 hardware.  I would still say that hardware with
TPM is of zero value to me, as a rule.

> 
> > 
> >>> because Apple sells hardware that obeys
> >>> Apple and not the person who owns the computer.
> >> 
> >> That is complete paranoid BS based on a total misunderstanding of what EFI 
> >> and TPM actually are.
> >> 
  This is so silly, I will just ignore it.

> > It is about
> > whether some third party can trust that you can only run software they
> > approve of.  TPM is about control and is a rather nasty thing.  It has
> > some positive aspects, but not nearly enough to balance the negatives.
> 
> Only if you assume the worst case scenario all the time.
> 
  I don't assume it.  I just avoid it.

> Your arguments are, if I may drag recent politics into it, akin to the
>  "One percent doctrine" Ron Suskind describes in the book of the same
>  name, about the Bush administrations response to 9/11 and the aftermath.
>  It is derived from a quote by vice president Cheney:
> 
> "if there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda
>  build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty
>  in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis ... It's about
>  our response." 
> 
  More straw dogs.  I am probably more like the elder Bush here.  It
would not be prudent at this juncture.  I will say if there is a 1%
chance of catastrophe, it would be wr