Paul Hollands: MacOS X Archives

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 :(

Posted by pj at 11:37 AM

October 30, 2004

Blogging iTunes playlists - RSS feeds

Found this posting by Kimbro Staken about a Python script he's written which posts his iTunes playlist to his blog using in-line AppleScript and the MT XML-RPC.

< http://www.xmldatabases.org/movabletype/archives/000159.html >

Should be straight forward to retask it to post 'now playing' titles too?

Posted by pj at 10:58 AM