[X Newbies] Lots of Dock bouncing, slow launches

[Steve St-Laurent]

Solved this nuisance. Somehow I had fouled Directory Access settings; 
NetInfo was looking for a non-existent parent directory. Lotsa bouncy, 
bouncy and waiting for programs to launch? Check your Directory Access 
settings.

> Earlier today I asked:
>> All of a sudden programs are bouncing a lot in the Dock, i.e. taking a
>> l-o-n-g time to load. I've run Repair Permissions and fsck-ed and
>> everything seems OK. Any ideas here? [Previously happy 10.2.2]
>
> No solution yet but another clue/symptom. Whenever this happens,
> Console shows [xxx=IP address]:
>        xx.xxx.xxx.xxx netinfod local[318]: unable to bind to parent -
> RPC: Timed out
>
> Disk Warriored also. Ideas? So far all I've found is some 1993 NextStep
> stuff on NetInfo that seems to relate.
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Steve St-Laurent <st-laur at holecomm.ca> <http://www.holecomm.ca>
Hole-in-the-Wall Communications, Vancouver, BC, Canada