Had a client over today with some Mac issues.
\nWas getting disk full messages, despite having 130Gig free.<\/p>\n
Did the usual stuff – disk repair, disk verify (caught some small things).
\nThat fixed the disk full messages.<\/p>\n
Then the client told me – oh, by the way, Safari doesn’t open.<\/p>\n
Tailing the system log in console still revealed issues.<\/p>\n
14\/04\/09 09:07:43 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] could not fetch history: Cannot allocate memory
\n14\/04\/09 09:07:43 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] BootCacheControl: could not stop cache\/fetch history: Cannot allocate memory<\/p>\n
A quick google of that error showed it was caused by…. Wacom drivers.<\/p>\n
While Wacom have updated drivers for other tablets, the client uses a Bamboo, which hasn’t had driver updates since 2007.<\/p>\n
Checking the logs while opening Safari revealed that it was trying to open a non-existent file called com.pentablet.defaults.xml<\/p>\n
On the off chance that this would work, I created a blank file in terminal.<\/p>\n
Terminal If (and ONLY if)<\/strong> no file is found, do this:<\/p>\n Safari will open again.<\/p>\n Hopefully Wacom will release newer less buggy drivers sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Had a client over today with some Mac issues. Was getting disk full messages, despite having 130Gig free. Did the usual stuff – disk repair, disk verify (caught some small things). That fixed the disk full messages. Then the client told me – oh, by the way, Safari doesn’t open. Tailing the system log in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,4],"tags":[68,71,72,70,69,67],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-technical-mumbo-jumbo","category-useful-info","tag-bamboo","tag-driver","tag-issues","tag-leopard","tag-tablet","tag-wacom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nsudo su
\n[enter in your password]
\ncd \/Library\/Preferences
\nls -al com.pentablet.defaults.xml<\/code><\/p>\necho > com.pentablet.defaults.xml
\nexit
\nexit<\/code><\/p>\n