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Runaway JAMF process is killing my disk

  • July 5, 2011
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I just rebooted my machine with the hopes of clearing out some crufty
processes. When the machine came back up, it was running even worse than
before. A little digging revealed that com.jamfsoftware.task.monitorUsage
is stuck in some kind of loop, causing a constant read/write of 10+ MB/s
from the disk.

7/5/11 1:24:46 PM com.jamfsoftware.task.monitorUsage[11266] sh: -c:
line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
7/5/11 1:24:46 PM com.jamfsoftware.task.monitorUsage[11266] sh: -c:
line 0: `/bin/ps u -p 2011-07-05 13:24:46.594 osascript[11314:903] Error
loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit
Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types:
dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit
Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types, 262): no suitable image found.
Did find:'
7/5/11 1:25:27 PM kernel Auth result for: 00:19:77:20:bf:11 MAC AUTH
succeeded
7/5/11 1:25:46 PM com.jamfsoftware.task.monitorUsage[11751] sh: -c:
line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
7/5/11 1:25:46 PM com.jamfsoftware.task.monitorUsage[11751] sh: -c:
line 0: `/bin/ps u -p 2011-07-05 13:25:46.510 osascript[11781:903] Error
loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit
Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types:
dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit
Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types, 262): no suitable image found.
Did find:'

What do we think is going on here? The same process continues to scroll
through my console.

DS

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2 replies

RobertHammen
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  • July 6, 2011

There is an updated Adobe Unit Types 2.1.0 scripting addition for CS3/CS4 that is 64-bit compatible. Unfortunately it's an Adobe KB article that has the download link, not in the "Updates". Not having this 64-bit scripting addition causes recon to fail and thus the log files growing...
On Jul 5, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Dave Simon wrote:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/516/cpsid_51615.html


  • July 6, 2011

Does this KB speak to your issue?

http://jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=303

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