[silkk]

Alright, I am turning to you guys because I have no idea were to look. I tried, apple support forums but they were of no hope. My problem is that randomly my computer will completely freeze with the exception of mouse movements. I was having this problem before, and tried a fresh install, fresh install with no installed programs, new RAM, old RAM, and now with a newly replaced logic board. The freeze happened again today and the clock stopped at 10:52am and got it back by putting to sleep (which took awhile) and then awakening. Here are the system.log entried around the time the problem occured.

Sep 5 10:50:08 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Sep 5 10:50:08 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: ni_statistics: Communication failure
Sep 5 10:50:14 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Sep 5 10:50:14 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: ni_statistics: Communication failure
Sep 5 10:50:20 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Sep 5 10:50:20 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: ni_statistics: Communication failure
Sep 5 10:50:26 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Sep 5 10:50:32 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Sep 5 10:52:17 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Sep 5 10:54:01 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Sep 5 10:54:01 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: ni_statistics: Communication failure
Sep 5 10:55:46 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Sep 5 10:55:46 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: ni_statistics: Communication failure
Sep 5 10:57:31 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Sep 5 10:59:15 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Sep 5 11:01:00 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Sep 5 11:01:00 BlackBook lookupd[16609]: ni_statistics: Communication failure

Is there anyway I can disable the netinfo lookup or is this a problem with the network/airport card. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

[Big Mac]

This is not a network problem. NetInfo is a local issue unless you're on an OS X network, and it also says it's a localhost connection problem. That's very strange, though. I don't have much of an answer for you right now, especially in light of everything you did to try to fix the problem.

[silkk]

I have changed the computer name in all instances (don't like my name being broadcast), is it possible that this is causing the problem?

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

This happened on my 1st Gen iMac G5. Turns out that the WHOLE processor had to be replaced including the logic board. May be a processor problem.

[silkk]

Interesting. Makes for an interesting problem. I already had the logic board replaced once, what are the chances that both were duds. I have changed the computer name back to the default and will see if the problem comes up again. I am sort of thinking about trying a new user account and see if it happens again also. This is my first mac and thus far have been a bit disappointed as it has recurring problems and already been in the shop once already. Thanks for the help.

[t951]

I am suffering the exact same issue....any updates?

[bdimcheff]

Check this out: Five Pounds of Flax: Is your lookupd crashing? It's years-old bug #3632865

It looks like there's a really old bug with lookupd that causes this. If anyone has a better solution than "unlockupd", I'm all ears...