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November 04, 2004
iBook blues
Went to try and do a software update again yesterday to install iTunes 4.7, but it just sat there like it had for the past four days. I decided to try and run an update from the command line and that seemed to work OK but it got to 94% complete and it stopped. I killed the process but my Finder immediately froze up. I rebooted but the Finder just hung up again with the beach ball of doom.
All the networking was still up so I ssh'd to the machine and did a top. coreservicesd was hogging 99% of the CPU cycles and each time I rebooted it just came right back up again and took over the machine.
After a night of fruitless searching and tearing out of hair, Tony M suggested I delete the /Library/Caches directory.
That seems to have fixed it. I suspect I was in some sort of Software Update induced behaviour loop :(
Tags: MacOS X
Posted by pj at November 4, 2004 11:37 AM