Re: "Security message has an invalid length"

Lewis <> writes:

> > Anyone have any ideas?
>
> No ideas, huh?

I looked around - I saw one guy mention this on Apple's
discussion web site, but there was no answer there.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread....59916&#6759916

But, you are both running the dotmacsyncclient, so you
could try stopping that and see if the messages stop too.

If that's not it, how about opening a terminal window
and posting the output from these commands -

stty cols 256
sw_vers
ps -ax

The first one is to ensure the output of the third one
is not truncated. It will wrap, and it'd be nice if you
unwrapped or cleaned it up before posting it. You might
be able to just drag the terminal window wide enough to
handle this instead, if you have the room on your screen.

The second command will show which version of the operating
system you're running, and the third will show all active
processes. One of those may have some connection to the
messages you're seeing.

Billy Y..

Lewis <> writes:

> ~ $ ps -ax

Well... Nothing in the process list looks obvious to me,
but then I don't run VMware, either. I did grab a copy
and grep (search) it for the string being logged. There
is a sort of similar thing in it -

(Version 1.1.1 | 72241 - 01/24/08)
The following parameter had invalid length:

You may have a different version. I'd ask them about
this, just to be sure.

Another possibility is all the various apps logging the
message share a common library and are getting it from
that. I don't have a 10.5 system available to look,
and I didn't find anything in 10.4, although I'm not
sure my search was exhaustive...

When did this start? Does that coincide with the
10.5.2 update, or some other software update?

Billy Y..