Questions tagged [console]
The built-in macOS application for viewing log files generated by the system and by individual applications.
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Strange message in console about _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key
This message is always displayed in the console log at regular intervals.
com.apple.xpc.launched: (comm.apple.imFoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) the _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available ...
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Where does $LANG variable gets set in Mac OS X?
I've used wget for the first time after installing Lion OS X and I've noticed that wget got localized to my native language. Running set command in terminal showed that my LANG variable represents my ...
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How to highlight errors and warnings on iTerm terminal output?
I am looking for a solution that would allow me to use color highlighting to a set of important output messages inside iTerm terminal application.
Things to highlight:
application logs file warnings,...
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What is "signpost_reporter"?
Today I updated my 2014 MacBook Air to macOS Mojave 10.14.5 as it just released. After the update finished, I checked console logs and noticed in 'System Reports' there's a log named "...
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Is there console mode in Mac OS X?
Is there something like Linux console in Mac OS X? Like "terminal", but without running graphics environment.
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Sierra Console.app show earlier data
In previous versions of OS X the Console.app had buttons to allow you to see earlier or later in the logs.
In Sierra it seems to only show entries from when you start Console.app.
How do you get ...
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Prettify OS X console by coloring output?
OS X terminal is not using colors for highlighting output from different commands, for example ls.
When compared with other systems like Ubuntu, this is a big loss of accessibility/productivity.
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chatty "switching to keychain-db" console messages in Sierra
In macOS Sierra I'm noticing a very "chatty" and repetitive series of warnings in the console, like this:
default 15:27:23.330990 -0700 AppleIDAuthAgent switching to keychain-db: /Users/XYZ/...
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How do I execute command line scripts?
In Windows, I can create .bat files. I double click it and all lines are interpreted as if I had entered it into the console.
In OS X, what file or program do I have to use? If I want write a file ...
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How to start preview from command line and get back to the terminal when I press ESC?
I do want to add file view support for media files to midnight commander and I something that can be called form the command line that would start preview but that will return to my terminal when I ...
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Why does the Finder run at such a low process priority?
I'm at a bit of a loss about this.
I'm running a big import in aperture, and it's causing my system to slow down to a complete crawl, basically rendering it unusable for anything, even browsing the ...
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How to fix usbmuxd spam in console when iPhone is connected?
Since I've upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion (including the latest 10.7.1 update), my usbmuxd seems awfully chatty. This only happens when my iPhone is connected.
It spams the following message at ...
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How to disable logging to system.log in OS X?
During my time with Yosemite, I've had an innocuous issue that gets logged to system.log non-stop.
This question is not about solving the issue.
I'd like to stop the chatter, because they're writes ...
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CalendarAgent continuous error generation in MacOS 10.12.4
After upgrading to MacOS 10.12.4 today, I started getting tons of Error/Fault log message in the Console generated by the CalendarAgent process.
Some of the errors are pasted below:
error: sql ...
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apache on OSX 10.8 not starting
I had Apache working on my 10.8 MPBR. I haven't used it for a few weeks, and now it doesn't seem to start. I get nothing in /private/var/log/apache2. Nothing, meaning no logging at all, error or ...
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Is less(1) missing lesskey functionality?
less(1), the terminal file pager, seems to be missing lesskey(1) and the ability to rebind the keystrokes in less. The docs claim it's there, but it doesn't work. Am I crazy or is Apple's version of ...
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USB to Serial Adaptor works once for every reboot
Update#2, After testing with different console applications, I think the conclusion is GNU screen coming with Mac OS X 10.11.4 has a defect causing this issue. Hope some dev can see this and help ...
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How to fix message spam from usbmuxd in console (_SendDetachNotification/_SendAttachNotification)
My console is flooded with messages like these:
11.01.12 21:21:39,819 com.apple.usbmuxd: _SendDetachNotification (thread 0x7fff7f6cb960): sending detach for device d0:23:db:3e:0b:82@fe80::d223:dbff:...
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Process (fmfd) spamming my console with sandbox denies
Since installing OSX 10.10 (Yosemite), my console is full of error messages regarding fmfd, like fmfd(384) deny file-read-metadata /Volumes/Macintosh HD
This happens mostly at startup and when ...
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Why is it important to keep lots of freespace on OSX? What is the impact?
I have a 500GB drive and have less than 50 GB free. Console is reporting several interesting errors saying I'm too low on space and it's cleaning up "stuff"
1/6/13 4:49:51.475 PM com.apple.mtmd[...
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earlier logs in Console of Sierra [duplicate]
After a complete freeze and hard reboot on my Mac Pro, I try to find out why.
In Console “Devices” I only see the logs of the last few minutes.
How can I see earlier logs? The only control I can ...
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iCloud Sync activity log
Trying to figure out how to see activity happening while iCloud Files is syncing. The macOS Console application shows messages from cloudd, but nothing very useful:
The Activity Monitor does not show ...
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Mac wakes up from sleep every two hours on Mac OS X Yosemite
Since upgrading to the first stable release of Mac OS X Yosemite a few days ago, my Mac Mini wakes up roughly every two hours from sleep for about a minute, then goes back to sleep. This is ...
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Console log flooded with "VMware Fusion Start Menu ... : assertion failed: ..."
I get tons of messages of this style in my console log:
08.12.14 11:03:41,045 VMware Fusion Start Menu[444]: assertion failed: 14B25: libxpc.dylib + 40320 [9437C02E-A07B-38C8-91CB-299FAA63083D]: 0x13
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Change font in Console.app in macOS Sierra
How do I change the font used in macOS Sierra? Has Apple actually taken away the ability to set the font?
Currently in macOS Sierra the SFMono font bundled with the app seems to be in use. I cannot ...
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How to identify a missing datastore for com.apple.securityd?
My fans are blowing constantly, and some investigation of my Console shows this error being spit out at a fantastic rate
CSSM Exception: -2147413737 CSSMERR_DL_DATASTORE_DOESNOT_EXIST
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Setting a custom log
I have to get all the chromium and firefox info logs out of /var/log/system.log and into a nice quiet /var/log/{chromium,firefox}.log.
However I can neither recall or find how to set that in syslog....
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OS 10.14 stop console from scrolling
It seems that since the new update, console will not stop scrolling. I have turned off the "Now" button, but scrolling up and highlighting a line pops out of view as soon as a new message comes in (...
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Fresh macOS install: Console.app displays errors/faults. Is that to be expected?
I have installed a fresh copy of macOS 10.13 on an empty drive. After logging in I checked for errors/faults in Console.app. I didn't expect to see any errors let alone faults but Console.app ...
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mds error "No store registered for scope" for nonexistent volume
My system log is flooded with error messages like the following:
mds: (Error) Server: No store registered for scope "/Volumes/Storage"
The volume in the error was in use on a previous machine before ...
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How do I write to the device Console log from the command line?
How do I write to the log for my "Device" in the Console app from the command line. I've tried
syslog -s -k Facility com.apple.console \
Level Alert \
Sender SomeSender \
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Errorr kernel SMC::smcReadKeyAction in Console
I have OSX 10.9 Maverics on my iMac and I got this message (in Console) every few seconds:
kernel[0]: SMC::smcReadKeyAction ERROR TH0P kSMCBadArgumentError(0x89) fKeyHashTable=0x0xffffff802af9b000
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All files in Finder show 'Date Modified' with correct days but always the same hour: 19:08
When I open a Finder window, all the file timestamps show the same hour, 19:08. The dates change, but the hour stays constant. This is also the case for time/dates shown in the Console.
The Clock on ...
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What is "com.JWVD.cbcache.plist"?
I'm trying to solve some problems and have run across a few things in Etrecheck of which I cannot determine the origin. One such item is the Launch Daemon "com.JWVD.cbcache.plist".
Does anyone know ...
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OS X Mavericks wakes my Mac from sleep every hour or so
Ever since upgrading to Mavericks, it looks like my Mac Mini wakes from sleep about once an hour or so. In the Console, I get the following message:
Oct 30 02:12:06 gary-mac WindowServer[93]: ...
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What is the exact difference between 'tty' and a 'console'?
I know the general idea of console, tty as here explains https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4126/what-is-the-exact-difference-between-a-terminal-a-shell-a-tty-and-a-con
But when run who (using ...
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Filtering with multiple criteria using OR in Console.app
It seems that using multiple criteria within search in Console implies an AND operator. So if I add a TagA and a TagB filters, it will find only messages that contains both TagA and TagB together.
Is ...
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How to remove an iPhone from the device list in Console.app
Today I opened Console.app and I found that my Mac can read logs from an iPhone which I connected to build an app quite a long time ago. The problem is that I now cannot find a way to remove this ...
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How to fix the error: "AppleSpell" tried to hijack endpoint "it (Apple)_OpenStep" from owner?
I have 3 macs that all produce this error repeatedly in the console, and I cant figure out the root cause of it. It leads to various system stalls and memory issues.
(Currently troubleshooting on ...
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Console reports "sandboxd deny mach-lookup" ... Should I modify system.sb?
I'm getting two errors in the console at the same time TimeMachine is running and taking FOREVER to make any progress.
1/4/13 9:41:38.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(5838) deny mach-lookup com....
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Is there an OS X 'tail' tool that can monitor remote log files?
I am looking for a visual tail tool that can monitor several local or remote log files.
Optional features that interest me: color highlight based on log error level, coloring for special words, ...
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Get Historic System Event Logs (Sleep, Restart, Wake-up etc)
How can I get the power-related events (Sleep, restart, wake-up) for the current system, like e.g.
2022-02-27T08:02:01 System Restarted
2022-02-28T08:34:32 Resumed from sleep
2022-02-28T15:15:11 Sleep ...
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How can I get full information from Console in macOS Sierra?
When I run Console, a lot of messages have the text <private> instead of details, even though my account is an Admin user account. Here is an example for an application I'm writing and trying ...
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Attempting to setup Exchange account in System Preferences causes crash
I have two computers both installed with OSX 10.9.2 and on one computer I did this with no problem what so ever but on the other computer, when I attempt to setup my Exchange account in the System ...
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Why the command line does not respect the PATH order on OS X?
I added an ssh command inside ~/bin/ssh and modified the PATH to include it, before other paths.
When I do run which ssh it will respond with ~/bin/ssh but when I do run ssh it will just execute the /...
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Growl notifications when a user logs in to Minecraft server?
Would love to be able to get a Growl notification when a user logs in to my (locally hosted) Minecraft server.
I took a peek in the Console but it doesn't seem to record the logins, although my ...
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Is there any way of Filtering out messages from OS X system log?
Is there any way of Filtering out messages from OS X system log?
I am looking through the log on an old MacBook running Lion.
This has an error message every 10 seconds from an obsolete service:
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Stop Console.app from auto-scrolling while I'm reading a log
When using Apple’s Console.app to read logs, the window automatically scrolls to the bottom when a new entry is posted to the log. But I'm trying to read something in the middle of the log.
Is there ...
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How to launch a file in vifm
I installed vifm through macports.
If I press enter on a file, it just opens it for editing.
How can I launch a file with it's associated program?
i.e. if I have a file highlighted, is there a key ...
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Are there tools to allow export of Console.app output with same format?
So for years I have not found a way to export a clean output of results collected in the macOS Console app
I primarily want to save my results in the same format as the data is organized in the ...
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