Ran agent after 2nd time would not open force quit 2 - 3 times. In typing notice leters missting. Notice switch to finder 2 sec them back to prorgam for 4 sec. no access to HD or desktop. Programs throgh doc. Have tried anti virus turned on and rerun, diskwarrior, reset PRAM, NVRAM, OPEN FIRMWARE.
Using g4 powerbook 17" 1ghz 1g mem. Latest tiger software. Please help ! Big meeting this am - 9:29 PST. It’s hard to type in 3-4 sec tiime span.
Thanks Dann PLEAE Help
Do you use any third-party extensions, e.g. input managers, spell checkers or other typing aids? Then please disable them. Or is anything logged to the system console (see /Applications/Utilities/Console.app) related to the application (I’m actually not sure if you’re talking about DEVONagent or DEVONthink)?
dandee:
You mentioned that you have anti-virus software installed. The Apple support forums are full of reports of problems caused by Norton’s software, and some versions of Virex software. At one time, Apple provided free anti-virus software to .Mac subscribers. The forum “gurus” generally recommend that every last vestige of those applications should be removed.
There’s a free Mac application that finds and removes Windows-originated viruses from MS Office documents, and is reported not to cause problems.
I don’t run anti-virus software, on the theory that there really are not any Mac viruses in the wild at this time. If a new one shows up, it probably wouldn’t be in the anti-virus software database, anyway. I do run in stealth mode behind a firewall, and I don’t open attachments from unknown sources.
As to my Windows-MS Office-using friends, if I forward to them a virus-infected file, I needn’t worry about them, as they all have to use anti-virus software, for very good reasons. 
Running DVONagent. Spell checker etc turned off. I cant get to desk top or applitions. Only through dock
console.log:
Description: User events log
Size: 30.92 KB
Last Modified: 3/17/06 8:53 PM
Location: /Library/Logs/Console/501/console.log
Recent Contents: …
2006-03-17 20:52:35.913 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 56; title = “The New York Times - Media & Advertising”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.913 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 57; title = “Macworld Reviews”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.914 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {
homePage = “http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/com.apple.jingle.app.store.DirectAction/viewNewReleases?pageType=newReleases&id=1”;
iconURL = “/images/rss/badge.gif”;
id = 58;
title = “iTunes 25 New Releases”;
}
2006-03-17 20:52:35.914 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 59; title = “The New York Times”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.914 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 60; title = “Time - Business”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.914 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 61; title = “Wired News: Cult of Mac”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.915 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 62; title = “eWEEK Macintosh”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.915 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 63; title = “Yahoo! News”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.915 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 64; title = “VersionTracker: Mac OS X”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.915 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 65; title = “BBC News - Business”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.916 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 66; title = “MacCentral News”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.916 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 67; title = “Apple Press Releases”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.916 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 68; title = “ABC News - Business”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.916 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 69; title = “New Mac OS X Products”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.917 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 70; title = “Wired News - Business”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.917 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 71; title = “Mac OS X Knowledge Base Documents”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.917 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 72; title = “Yahoo! News - Business”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.918 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 73; title = “Mac OS X Hot Downloads”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.918 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 74; title = “Mac OS X Downloads”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.918 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 75; title = “CNN.com”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.918 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 76; title = “Washington Post”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.918 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 77; title = “Washington Post”; }
2006-03-17 20:52:35.919 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {
homePage = “http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/index”;
id = 78;
title = “ABC News: Sports”;
}
2006-03-17 20:52:35.919 SyndicationAgent[685] WARNING: SQLArticleSource: Can’t initialize with missing URL: row = {id = 79; title = “The New York Times - Books”; }
Mar 17 20:52:37 Dann crashdump[684]: crash report written to: /Users/dannielkientz/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Mar 17 20:52:45 Dann crashdump[687]: Finder crashed
Mar 17 20:52:46 Dann crashdump[687]: crash report written to: /Users/dannielkientz/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Mar 17 20:52:54 Dann crashdump[690]: Finder crashed
Mar 17 20:52:56 Dann crashdump[690]: crash report written to: /Users/dannielkientz/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Mar 17 20:53:02 Dann crashdump[693]: Finder crashed
Mar 17 20:53:04 Dann crashdump[693]: crash report written to: /Users/dannielkientz/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Mar 17 20:53:11 Dann crashdump[696]: Finder crashed
Mar 17 20:53:12 Dann crashdump[696]: crash report written to: /Users/dannielkientz/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Mar 17 20:53:19 Dann crashdump[698]: Finder crashed
Mar 17 20:53:20 Dann crashdump[698]: crash report written to: /Users/dannielkientz/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
Can run other user. Can’t get to delete finder.plist (someone suggested)
dandee:
Try starting up from your Installation DVD and hold down the C key while booting up.
You will find a menu option to run Disk Utilities > Disk Repair. Run Disk Repair on your boot drive. With luck, you may find an error that can be corrected and get your computer operating again. If an error is reported and fixed, run Disk Repair again, until no error is reported (I hope). Then try restarting normally.
It’s obviously something deeper than any problem with DEVONagent itself.
Although this won’t help with your morning schedule, if Disk Repair can’t get you running, it might be time to do a hardware check. Restart again with the Installation DVD in the optical drive, holding down the Option key at the chime until you have the option of choosing Apples Hardware Test routine. Run that to see if any hardware error is reported, such as a hard drive problem.