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unknown error on 10.3.9 boot: "SystemStarter: Malformatted parameters file"

Subject: unknown error on 10.3.9 boot: "SystemStarter: Malformatted parameters file"
From: OpenMacNews <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:18:06 -0700
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hi,

i've installed DansGuardian on an OSX 10.3.9 box.

i've created the /Library/StartupItems  for it ...

   DansGuardian/DansGuardian
   DansGuardian/StartupParameters.plist

launches/operates as expected from cmd-line.

on boot, however, it never starts.

syslog shows only one related item:

Aug 4 16:49:23 localhost SystemStarter: Malformatted parameters file /Library/StartupItems/DansGuardian/StartupParameters.plist.

checking in StartupParaneters.plist, i have ONLY:

% cat /Library/StartupItems/DansGuardian/StartupParameters.plist { Description = "DansGuardian Content Filter"; Provides = ("ContentFilter"); Requires = ("Disks","Resolver","Network","Network Time","ProxyServer"); OrderPreference = "Last"; { start = "Starting DansGuardian"; stop = "Stopping DansGuardian"; restart = "Restarting DansGuardian"; }; }

which is virtually identical to my other startup items' ...

and, "ProxyServer" is provided by Squid, which launches OK prior to the DansGuardian failed attempt:

   ...
   Aug  4 16:41:22 localhost SystemStarter: Starting SQUID PROXY server
   ...
   Aug  4 16:41:25 localhost squid[352]: Squid Parent: child process 354
   started
   ...

googling on "Malformatted parameters file" brings up virtually nothing other than:


<http://darwinsource.opendarwin.org/10.3/Startup-177/SystemStarter/StartupItems.c>

where the stanza:

   ...
   if (StartupItemValidate(aConfig))
   	{
   		CFStringRef aBundlePathString =
   			CFStringCreateWithCString(NULL, aBundlePath, kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
   		CFNumberRef aDomainNumber =
   			CFNumberCreate(NULL, kCFNumberCFIndexType, &aDomainIndex);
   		CFDictionarySetValue(aConfig, kBundlePathKey, aBundlePathString);
   		CFDictionarySetValue(aConfig, kDomainKey, aDomainNumber);
   		CFRelease(aDomainNumber);
   		SpecialCasesStartupItemHandler(aConfig);
   		CFArrayAppendValue(anItemList, aConfig);
   		CFRelease(aBundlePathString);
   	}
   else
   	{
   		error(CFSTR("Malformatted parameters file %s.\n"), aConfigFile);
   	}
   ...

looks like the 'culprit', but i have no idea what's failing, and further -- why it's only happening for THIS .plist ...

any ideas?

thx,

richard
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