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Malacandra
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August 9, 2011
Question

Adobe AIR responsible for thousands of log files under OS X Lion

  • August 9, 2011
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I'm surprised not to see this already mentioned here: there are post about it on the Apple Support Forum. 
It may affect many who aren't aware of it - I only found out about it when a disk clone operation that normally takes 45 minutes continued for 11 hours.

SYMPTOM: many, many, many thousands of log files are being created in /var/log/asl/AUX.2011.[MM].[DD] directories, each containing a message like:

WebProcess(225) deny file-read-data /Users/foobert/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR/ELS/com.adobe.amp.4875E02D9FB21EE389F73B8D1702B320485DF8CE.1/ PrivateEncryptedDatak

When I discovered the problem, those log files had already consumed a whopping 10GB of my hard drive. The messages especially proliferate when Safari is running, insofar as it seems to want to access the keychain.

The problem can be remedied by going into Keychain Access and deleting the PrivateEncryptedDatak keychain, but that keychain is recreated whenever I launch my most useful AIR application, TweetDeck.

The problem is serious enough that I've had little choice but uninstall AIR… and the problem wasn't isolated to just one computer: after discovering this on my desktop Mac I found that exactly the same thing was happening on my laptop, also running OS X Lion.

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Fofer
Participant
September 30, 2011

This issue was vexing me too, and no amount of repairing the keychain (or deleting these entries) would make it go away.  Everytime I'd launch any Adobe AIR app, the problem would immediately return. 

And I believe it was caused a huge speed slowdown, extra heat and overactive fan action on my mid-2010 MacBook Pro (2.66 Ghz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB of RAM, otherwise clean install of OS X 10.7.)

Anyway, I came across this post with a purported hack to fix it:

https://plus.google.com/104149041030409334838/posts/j1ptVE6qfsg

I'm not keen to try this just yet... but would be curious to hear details if anyone else gives it a go.  In the meantime I have just uninstalled Adobe AIR and will anxiously await the release of OS X 10.7.2.

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Fofer
Participant
October 13, 2011

It appears to me that today's update of Mac OS X 10.7.2 has fixed this issue.

I had been using the hack/patch mentioned in my post above. But I removed it prior to upgrading to 10.7.2, and then I rebooted, and did a bunch of websurfing, opening up Adobe AIR apps, and checking out the keychain.  (For what it's worth I also upgraded this week to Adobe Air 3.)

Now when I go check, I am not seeing any of those millions of "WebProcess(225) deny file-read-data" errors when I check in the Console.app.

chris.campbell
chris.campbell
Legend
August 9, 2011

Ouch, I'll look into this asap.

Chris

chris.campbell
chris.campbell
Legend
August 9, 2011

I've been able to reproduce this issue and we now have both an internal bug (#2938741) and an Apple RADAR bug filed.  If you'd like to track this publicly, can you please open a new bug at bugbase.adobe.com and post back here with the bug's URL?  We'll link it with the internal bug and others affected can cast their votes for the public bug.

Thanks,

Chris

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MalacandraAuthor
Participant
August 9, 2011

Thanks Chris,


Done:  https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=2938781

I'm glad I notified you guys about this. 
I miss TweetDeck, not to mention Adobe Media Player.

Thanks,

Miles

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