Help decipher error? message in system log file
Since upgrading to Tiger I get the following message 25-50 times and wonder if this is slowing down the system. What follows the message is not the same so I'm not sure which process is stopping this if any or is it just 'giving up":
/usr/sbin/update: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, "
/usr/sbin/update: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, "
and what is UTF-8?
Thanks for any help
/usr/sbin/update: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, "
/usr/sbin/update: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, "
and what is UTF-8?
Thanks for any help
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At any rate, this would be the first time I've seen an error message where OS X complains about something it expects to be UTF-8 not being valid UTF-8.
I looked through the BSD routine "update", which really only calls another BSD routine "Sync", which makes sure that all disk writes have been flushed out of the write buffers onto the actual disk. You can type "/usr/sbin/update" in the Terminal and hear the hard disk mumble as it gets the flushed data.
The error message that you posted is not part of the binary file "update", so it must come from a lower-level system routine.
You can file a bug on it and they will sometimes get back to you - you need a free ADC account (connect.apple.com) and go to bugreporter.apple.com.