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    How do i completely remove iStat menus.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by mr__bean, Oct 5, 2009.

  1. mr__bean

    mr__bean Notebook Evangelist

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    I uninstalled it the other day, and yet there was still the system preferences module left behind which i had to remove manually. among other things.

    now in my system error logs there is this


    Description: System events log
    Size: 581 KB
    Last Modified: 05/10/2009 14:01
    Location: /var/log/system.log
    Recent Contents: ...
    Oct 5 13:26:09 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    Oct 5 13:26:19 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[725]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocal", ...): No such file or directory
    Oct 5 13:26:19 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[725]): Exited with exit code: 1
    Oct 5 13:26:19 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    Oct 5 13:26:29 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[726]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocal", ...): No such file or directory
    Oct 5 13:26:29 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[726]): Exited with exit code: 1
    Oct 5 13:26:29 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    Oct 5 13:26:39 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[727]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocal", ...): No such file or directory
    Oct 5 13:26:39 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[727]): Exited with exit code: 1
    Oct 5 13:26:39 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    Oct 5 13:26:49 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[728]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocal", ...): No such file or directory
    Oct 5 13:26:49 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[728]): Exited with exit code: 1
    Oct 5 13:26:49 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    Oct 5 13:26:59 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[729]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocal", ...): No such file or directory
    Oct 5 13:26:59 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[729]): Exited with exit code: 1
    Oct 5 13:26:59 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    Oct 5 13:27:09 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[730]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocal", ...): No such file or directory
    Oct 5 13:27:09 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[730]): Exited with exit code: 1
    Oct 5 13:27:09 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    Oct 5 13:27:19 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[731]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocal", ...): No such file or directory
    Oct 5 13:27:19 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[731]): Exited with exit code: 1
    Oct 5 13:27:19 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    Oct 5 13:27:29 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[733]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocal", ...): No such file or directory
    Oct 5 13:27:29 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[733]): Exited with exit code: 1
    Oct 5 13:27:29 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    Oct 5 13:27:39 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[737]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocal", ...): No such file or directory
    Oct 5 13:27:39 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[737]): Exited with exit code: 1
    Oct 5 13:27:39 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    Oct 5 13:27:49 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[738]): posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/iStat local/iStatLocal", ...): No such file or directory
    Oct 5 13:27:49 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal[738]): Exited with exit code: 1
    Oct 5 13:27:49 macbook com.apple.launchd[63] (com.bjango.istatlocal): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds


    Seriously please help how do i remove this?
     
    mr__bean, Oct 5, 2009
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  2. mr__bean

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    I think i may have fixed it by installing, and then uninstalling again, as when i uninstalled it this time it deleted the module from system preferences aswell. I am going to wait and see if the errors appear in the log menu again and ill post back
     
    mr__bean, Oct 5, 2009
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