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OS X v10.11.1 - Frozen Login and/or Blank Screen After Login
The answer is: JUST ANGRILY RUN OVER THE PROBLEM
Boot into Safe Mode (holding down shift at the two separate appropriate moments, BTW OMGWTF). Safe mode still won't login, but now you have an option...
Get to a terminal, somehow.
I was able to use crazy circus methods to get one: I pressed the play/pause button on my keyboard to trigger iTunes to bring up a license agreement dialog box, this in turn brings up the menu bar, which I used to get to System Preferences, from there I used the "Secrets" prefpane (which was luckily already installed) to launch Firefox, thereafter I used a url handler to have firefox let me choose an application to open -- for example "Terminal" or "Quicksilver")
There must be a better way.
At the terminal, run this (all on one line):
sudo launchctl unload -w "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mbsystemadministration.plist"
enter your password when prompted, then reboot.
If you know a better way to fix this issue, please share. If only launchctl unload -w from single-user-mode would work across reboots...
Misc Notes
From safe-mode, before the fix, errors like these were getting logged:
Oct 22 13:12:41 unknown mbsystemadministration[272]: open on (null)/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist: File exists Oct 22 13:12:41 unknown com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mbbackgrounduseragent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds. Oct 22 13:12:41 unknown mbsystemadministration[272]: open on (null)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist: File exists Oct 22 13:12:41 unknown mbsystemadministration[272]: open on (null)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccess.plist: File exists Oct 22 13:12:51 unknown com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mbbackgrounduseragent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds. Oct 22 13:13:01 unknown com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mbbackgrounduseragent): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
The "mb" in "mbsystemadministration.plist" is "MacBuddy" as you can see by running:
strings '/System/Library/CoreServices/Setup Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/mbsystemadministration' | grep -i buddy
Note I'm removing some things for blog readability...
-[MBSAServer getBuddyUser:] -[MBSAServer postMacBuddyTasks:] -[MBSAServer preMacBuddyTasks:] -[MBSAServer terminateBuddySession:transitioningToUID:withCompletionBlock:] Buddy info dict we just wrote is invalid: %@ FacelessConfiguration: %@ skip buddy cookie FacelessConfiguration: skip buddy set Failed to remove MacBuddy automation cookie. Error: %@ LastSeenBuddyBuildVersion Removed MacBuddy automation cookie. Setting the MacBuddy Cookie ShowKeychainSyncBuddyAtLogin getBuddyUser: kPrimaryBuddyType kSecondaryBuddyType lastSeenBuddyBuildVersion lastSeenBuddyBuildVersion postMacBuddyTasks: preMacBuddyTasks: removeBuddyUserHome: removeResumeBuddyCookie: setLastSeenBuddyBuildVersion: setMacBuddyDoneCookie: setResumeBuddyCookie: setShowKeychainSyncBuddyAtLogin: setSkipBuddy: showKeychainSyncBuddyAtLogin showKeychainSyncBuddyAtLogin skipMiniBuddy switchToBuddySession: terminateBuddySession:transitioningToUID:withCompletionBlock: void MBSetTheMacBuddyCookie()
Separately, out of curiosity, I ran strings '/System/Library/CoreServices/Setup Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/mbsystemadministration' | grep '/' | sort | uniq to see what paths the program might be working with...
%@/Library/Preferences %@/Library/Preferences/%@ /Library/Documentation /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports /Library/Preferences/%@ /System/Library/CoreServices/Language Chooser.app /System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app/Contents/MacOS/ManagedClient /Users/Shared/adi/adi-%08lX.pb /bin/cat /bin/chmod /etc/kcpassword /etc/kcpassword.mb /etc/ntp.conf /etc/resolver /sbin/mount /sbin/newfs_hfs /sbin/shutdown -h now /sbin/shutdown -r now /sbin/umount /usr/bin/certtool /usr/libexec/configureLocalKDC /usr/sbin/chown /usr/sbin/hdik /var/db/.AppleDiagnosticsSetupDone /var/db/.AppleLaunchMigration /var/db/.AppleSetupDebugInitialization /var/db/.AppleSetupDone /var/db/.AppleSetupDone22 /var/db/.AppleSetupResume /var/db/.AppleSetupUser /var/db/.InstallerConfiguration /var/db/.RunLanguageChooserToo /var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/.profilesAreInstalled /var/db/krb5kdc /var/root/.CFUserTextEncoding ram://100000
El Capitan’s /usr/include
I was having trouble getting pip to build the python module lxml against the native libxml2 libraries on Mac OS X v10.11 - "El Capitan." The problem was that I was missing the header files -- in fact the entire /usr/include tree was gone.
The fix is to run xcode-select --install. Apparently you can have the developer tools installed, but not have the "command line developer tools" which include /usr/include. Unfortunately, thanks to the "rootless" feature, this Apple-sanctioned installer is pretty much the only way to get /usr/lib back.
That said, we are in another bubble. But this time it’s not a financial bubble. It’s a psychological one. The psychological bubble makes you think that because you can code a photo app or design an algorithm to get me to the airport a little quicker, that also qualifies you as an expert on every other topic. The psychological bubble prevents you from seeing what role timing and serendipity play in your bombastic financial success. The psychological bubble makes you forget what I always like to remind people about the Internet business: Showing up at a gold rush with a shovel and a pan doesn’t make you a genius.
Hell Yes, We Are In a Bubble
I call this “Hacker News Syndrome.”
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Cheese Heap.
State lawmakers' communication, as well as drafting files of legislation would no longer be available for public scrutiny under proposals Thursday.
If you're a Wisconsin resident, you should probably contact your state legislators and let them know how you feel about this.
Last week, North Carolina’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) sent another round of letters to residents living near the 32 ponds where Duke Energy, the largest electric power company in the country, dumps highly toxic waste known as coal ash produced at its 14 power plants. DENR found that 152 of the 163 private water wells it tested failed to meet state groundwater standards, according to the Associated Press. That’s a 93 percent contamination rate.
93 percent of drinking water wells tested by North Carolina regulators were found to have toxins.
Well, that’s terrifying.
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ESP8266: No strings attached!
In the past few months, the maker scene went totally crazy about the ESP8266: a 3 dollar wifi to serial module. I wanted to know what the fuzz was all about, and spent a whopping 10 dollars to order some of these cute little toys a few days ago. This weekend, the Chinese package arrived and resulted in me spending too much time behind my desk …
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where did they go?
The reviews on the Amazon page for a toy Predator drone are pretty trenchant:
You’ve had a busy play day - You’ve wiretapped Mom’s cell phone and e-mail without a warrant, you’ve indefinitely detained your little brother Timmy in the linen closet without...
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Non-privileged Python Package Installs on OS X
Sometimes a virtualenv isn't what you want. I often want my account to have a particular python package (like bpython), but I also like to keep things clean and compartmentalized. One answer is installing the package to a standard place within your user account's home folder. Python is already setup for this, as you can see if you run python -m site.
sys.path = [ '/Users/someuser', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC', '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages', ] USER_BASE: '/Users/someuser/Library/Python/2.7' (doesn't exist) USER_SITE: '/Users/someuser/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages' (doesn't exist) ENABLE_USER_SITE: True
You'll see that python is looking for USER_BASE and USER_SITE directories in particular locations. Let's create them:
mkdir -p ~/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages
I also like to make this symlink so that your site-packages appears in a more standard place:
ln -s lib/python/site-packages ~/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
Now tell distutils that the packages should be installed here:
cat <<'EOM' >~/.pydistutils.cfg [install] install-base=$HOME/Library/Python/$py_version_short install-purelib=$base/site-packages install-platlib=$base/site-packages install-scripts=$base/bin install-headers=$base/include install-data=$base/data EOM
The big problem here is that this setup can interfere with virtualenv or at times when you want to install a package globally. So I use these aliases to enable disable this file. Normally I leave it disabled, and when I want to install some packages to my user account instead of a virtualenv, I enable the file
alias pydistutilson='mv -i ~/.pydistutils.cfg.off ~/.pydistutils.cfg' alias pydistutilsoff='mv -i ~/.pydistutils.cfg ~/.pydistutils.cfg.off'