All of a sudden New Growl Notifications?

Bear Hunter · Post by **Bear Hunter** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:44 pm

Alright....don't know what caused this but:

Bottom line up front: Yesterday I started receiving new hardware growl notifications as follows (nothing was connected to the computer):

USB Bus connected (multiple ones), Bluetooth USB connected, firewire, i-Sight connected, etc.....

This happened after waking the computer up from sleep on battery power. I have never gotten these messages before...

Standard messages I receive are: Volume mounted, ip assigned, Network mounted, etc.

I restarted it (on battery power)... and got the same notifications. I then shut it off and connected the power and turned it on and did not get the USB notifications. After that I tried it on battery power again and did not get the USB notifications....all was well

...just wondering if it is a Growl bug..or possibly something wrong with the computer?

I did notice that every USB notification I was receiving was listed in the USB tab under system profiler. Does the computer connect these things in the background whenever it is turned on...and it was just a glitch?

It has not happened since

Thanks

Growl v. 1.1.1
2.2 Intel Core2Duo MBP
10.4.10 (Tiger OS)

Post by **evands** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:04 pm

Yes, every time you start up your computer it registers connected USB devices.

Bear Hunter · Post by **Bear Hunter** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:12 pm

evands wrote:Yes, every time you start up your computer it registers connected USB devices.

Thanks for the reply....When you say it registers connected USB devices...do you mean when I plug in something externally? Because I didn't have anything connected....no external USB devices, no external firewire devices...iSight is built in.

Am I supposed to be getting those notifications through hardware growl without anything connected externally?

Thanks

Post by **bgannin** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:24 am

You shouldn't be blitzed with a deluge of notifications like that. Evan was referring to external USB devices.

Bear Hunter · Post by **Bear Hunter** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:51 am

bgannin wrote:You shouldn't be blitzed with a deluge of notifications like that. Evan was referring to external USB devices.

That's what I thought...thanks for the reply. Has this ever happened before? Seems to be an isolated incident (hasn't happened since) and the computer is running fine. I'm just kind of concerned that Hardware Growler may have picked up on a potential problem with the computer (purchased in August).

What do you think? Just a glitch? I find it odd that it gave me notifications of everything listed below which is internal to the computer:

USB Bus (three times)
Bluetooth USB
Apple Keyboard/Trackpad
IR Receiver
High Spped Bus
iSight

after that was done it proceded to tell me the normal stuff

Volume mounted
ip address assigned
Network hardrive
airport

Bear Hunter · Post by **Bear Hunter** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:10 am

and just to reiterate...connecting to an external power source corrected the notifications.

Post by **bgannin** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:53 am

I'm curious as to whether it's actually software (i.e., OS level) or hardware-based. I think you may be right that it's not actually Hardware Growler's fault.

Bear Hunter · Post by **Bear Hunter** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:46 am

Thanks for helping ... it just happened again about 1.5 hours ago. Except this time it just gave me multiple USB connection alerts and I was connected to external power this time

I ran a full hardware test using the install CD and there were no issues found....it said it tested the logic board, etc...

Think I'm ok?

Bear Hunter · Post by **Bear Hunter** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:51 am

I just tested the usb port by connecting my camera...and everything is good...got the alert that is was connected and disconnected when I pulled it out.

This is weird..... is there any plist I can trash with growler?

Bear Hunter · Post by **Bear Hunter** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:04 am

Happened again....got the full gamet of notifications to include keyboard etc...

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but whenever I restart my computer I always have a "recovered files" folder in the trash that contains growl stuff....I have just been deleting them by emptying the trash. This was just "recovered" and in the trash

Growl-7F4ABE07-A2F3-4434-BA5D-8A46EB349CF8.growlRegDict

any thoughts?

Bear Hunter · Post by **Bear Hunter** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:21 am

This is a copy of what was in my system log if it helps....I have no idea what it means

Growl under "system":

===== Display starts at offset 19553 within file of length 150625. ====
===== Use File->Reload (Cmd-R) to display more. ====
Nov 1 20:20:35 MacBookPro /Applications/Kevin/Growl/Extras/HardwareGrowler/HardwareGrowler.app/Contents/MacOS/

and this for USB under "system":

===== Display starts at offset 19553 within file of length 150625. ====
===== Use File->Reload (Cmd-R) to display more. ====
Oct 31 23:43:37 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Oct 31 23:43:37 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 00:05:10 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 00:05:10 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 00:06:36 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 00:06:36 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 08:59:44 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 08:59:44 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 12:55:23 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 12:55:23 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 13:07:13 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 13:07:13 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 13:13:03 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 13:13:03 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 15:29:27 MacBookPro kernel[0]: IOUSBWorkLoop::closeGate - interrupt Thread being held offEnabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
Nov 1 16:37:44 MacBookPro kernel[0]: IOUSBWorkLoop::closeGate - interrupt Thread being held offEnabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
Nov 1 20:20:19 MacBookPro kernel[0]: IOUSBWorkLoop::closeGate - interrupt Thread being held offEnabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
Nov 1 21:14:01 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 21:14:01 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 21:19:46 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 21:19:46 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 21:29:46 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 21:29:46 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 22:39:16 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 22:39:16 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 22:53:53 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 22:53:53 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 22:59:19 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 22:59:19 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 23:07:52 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Nov 1 23:07:52 localhost kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)

I just trashed the growl plist..to see what happens

Post by **bgannin** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:25 am

If that's in your logs then HardwareGrowler is behaving correctly. Your system is posting USB messages that HardwareGrowler then displays.