Just did another upgrade attempt, this time to Mojave 10.14.6 and it crashed my MacBook Air again!
Again, it will not restore from a recent time machine backup, even though I made a full backup before attempting to upgrade! Darn! What is up with Apple????
Will have to reinstall macOS from the net and recover / migrate from my time machine backup.
I am a hard-core Mac user, with four Macs (One 12 core 2013 Mac Pro, one Mac Mini and two MacBook Airs, two iPhones), and this is really getting annoying!
Am I going to attempt to upgrade my Mac Pro running Mojave 10.14.6? NO WAY!
Hey!
I compiled TUN 1.1 driver on my Solaris 10 64bit, and everything was working fine, all the commands for installation were successfull (add_drv, devfsadm -i tun ... etc.)
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Hi,
Recently i received a request to rotate logs of catalina.out (tomcat). The file size was about 807 MB. I used logadm to truncate the log ( -c ) and zip (-z 0) it.
Everything worked fine, catalina.out.0.gz was created (22 MB) and the size of original catalina.out became 0kb.
After... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to monitor the tomcat log file called "Catalina.out" for any errors like out of memory,JDBC exceptions,broken pipe any other errors and exceptions
The script should monitor this file and send a mail instantly and create a text file with errors day to day.
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Just a quick note for macOS users.
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WARNING!
Just upgraded my MacPro (2013) from Catalina 10.15.2 to 10.15.3.
After the routine download and restart for upgrade installation, the Mac would not boot. Totally crashed.
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Currently have two ESP8266 modules testing some Blynk apps, whereI'm not so happy with the Blynk business model for developers, but that's another story.
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MacPro (2013) 12-Core, 64GB RAM (today's crash):
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f8b333ad5): userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from com.apple.WindowServer in 120 seconds
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
asmc
ASMC(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ASMC(4)NAME
asmc -- device driver for the Apple System Management Console (SMC)
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
device asmc
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
asmc_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The asmc driver controls the Apple System Management Console (SMC for short) found on Intel Apple systems.
The SMC is known to be found on the following systems:
o MacBook
o MacBook Pro
o Intel MacMini
o Mac Pro
o MacBook Air
o Intel iMac
With this driver, you can configure your keyboard backlight brightness, check temperatures of several sensors, check the speed of the inter-
nal fans and check the status of the Sudden Motion Sensor.
Variables related to the SMC control and inspection are exported via sysctl(3) under the device tree dev.asmc.
KEYBOARD BACKLIGHT
On MacBook Pro systems, you can control the keyboard brightness by writing a value to the dev.asmc.%d.light.control sysctl MIB.
The following sysctl MIBs contains the raw value returned by the left and right light sensors: dev.asmc.%d.light.left or
dev.asmc.%d.light.right.
TEMPERATURES
The number of temperature sensors and their description varies among systems. You can inspect the temperature sensors on your system by
traversing the dev.asmc.temp sysctl MIB.
All values are in degrees celsius.
SYSTEM FANS
The dev.asmc.fan.%d sysctl tree contains the leaf nodes speed, safespeed, minspeed, maxspeed and targetspeed. Each of these leaf nodes rep-
resent the current fan speed, the safest minimum fan speed, the minimum speed and the maximum speed respectively.
All values are in RPM.
SUDDEN MOTION SENSOR
The Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS for short) is a device that detects laptop movement and notifies the operating system via an interrupt. The
sysctl MIBs present under dev.asmc.sms all relate to the SMS.
The most interesting usage of this device is to park the disk heads when the laptop is moved harshly. First, you need to install ataidle(8)
(ports/sysutils/ataidle) and then configure devd(8) the following way:
notify 0 {
match "system" "ACPI";
match "subsystem" "asmc";
action "/usr/local/sbin/ataidle -s X Y";
};
Do not forget to change the X and Y values in the command above.
Also, please note that parking the disk heads too many times can dramatically reduce your hard drive's life span. Do not rely solely on the
SMS to protect your hard drive: good care and common sense can increase your hard drive's life.
SEE ALSO ataidle(8) (ports/sysutils/ataidle), devd(8), sysctl(8)HISTORY
The asmc driver first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.
AUTHORS
Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> (Google Summer of Code project)
BUGS
Support for the latest models was never tested and is most likely not fully working.
BSD July 27, 2009 BSD