[Ti] PubSubAgent

[Kim Gammelgård]

Okay, I think it makes a bit more sense now :-) This will only be a  
guess, though, so it may not help you all the way.

The PubSubAgent is an application that checks RSS and Atom feeds  
regularly. (open the Terminal and type "man pubsub" without the  
quotes). I will almost bet that it is Safari or Mail that is trying to  
update one of your feeds, but it could be any application that is  
using the pubsub-utility.

The reason why it is giving the error message is probably due to a  
feed that think that it needs authentication using an X509Anchor in  
the Keychain. I would probably open the Keychain application and run a  
check and repair on your keychains twice (there has been reports that  
the second time is necessary for some actions to happen). If that  
doesn't bring anything, I would have a look at the X509Anchors in the  
keychain to see if they all have valid dates, and after a backup of  
the keychain, deleting the ones that are expired.

If this doesn't bring you anywhere, I would go through your feeds and  
try to isolate the culprit, backing up your bookmarks first.

I hope that at least one of these two things will help. I could be a  
lot more specific in the actual actions, so do let us know if I am too  
superficial in my description of what I would do.

Best,

Kim



Den 24/12/2007 kl. 15.03 skrev Dr. Trevor J. Hutley:

>> What messages are you getting
>
> One message says "PubSubAgent wants to use the TJH keychain ....  
> enter password" and the other says " PubSubAgent wants to use the  
> confidential information stored in idisk.mac.com in your keychain,  
> do you want to allow access to this item"?  If if I check Always  
> Allow, it will ask me next time..... (bug within a bug?)
>
> These messages appear a few times per hour, even during movies or  
> anything........
>
>> and what does it say in the Console.log/system.log
>
> Interesting stuff in this Log, ... but the lines specific related to  
> the SubPubAgent I have appended to this email.
> They seem to contain a warning about obsolete anchors... ??!!  I  
> have no idea what this is referring to.
>
>> I have not seen anything on my couple of Leopard systems, so it  
>> could be a widget, a menu item, a preference pane, a wrong  
>> permission, a corrupted pref-file, an application error etc.
>
> Any clue from what I wrote above or the Log entries below?
>
> Trevor
>
>
> Dec 24 01:43:59 Trevors-PowerBook-G4-15 /System/Library/Frameworks/ 
> PubSub.framework/Versions/A/Resources/PubSubAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ 
> PubSubAgent[559]: Warning: accessing obsolete X509Anchors.