Your network settings have been changed by another application

[ka jowct]

Your network settings have been changed by another application
Your network settings have been changed by another application
Your network settings have been changed by another application
Your network settings have been changed by another application
Your network settings have been changed by another application
Your network settings have been changed by another application
Your network settings have been changed by another application
Your network settings have been changed by another application
Your network settings have been changed by another application…

Has anyone else run into this?
It's an infinite loop in the Network System Preference informing users that the network settings had been changed by another application.

This is supposedly the fix:
1. Open the System Preferences
2. Choose Security
3. Enable the item named Require password to unlock each secure system preference
4. Close the System Preferences

It's really, really irritating. I ran into this Network Settings bug this week on a machine I only use as a repository for files. Eventually I found fixes in the Apple Support discussion area; can't believe it hasn't been fixed in a software update.

It happened with a barebones Tiger installation, meaning there's really nothing on this drive but the OS with all the software updates applied, one or two additional disk utilities, and a bunch of backed up files.

[C(-)ris]

Welcome to 2 and a half years ago

Go to Macintosh HD/library/preferences/SystemConfiguration then drag the last folder to the desktop, then reboot. You will have to setup your network config again, but will not have the problem. One of the Apple 10.4 combo updates caused this problem.

[ka jowct]

Yeah, I know. For whatever reason, I haven't had the problem on my other machines, so I had no idea it existed. There is a lengthy (11-page) discussion of it in the Apple Support area. BTW getting rid of that folder did NOT work for me, not has it worked for quite a few others. First thing I tried after finding that discussion.

[Doc]

ka jowct wrote:
This is supposedly the fix...

That's not a fix. It's a workaround.

As soon as you go to change a setting the symptom will return unless you delete these files from the SystemConfiguration folder and restart:

com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
NetworkInterfaces.plist
preferences.plist
com.apple.nat.plist

Note that you'll have to redo your network pref's afterwards.

ka jowct wrote:
BTW getting rid of that folder did NOT work for me...

So far as I can recall (and I admit it's been a long time so I may not recall correctly), trashing those files has worked every time that I've encountered the problem.

[C(-)ris]

Doc wrote:
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[quote=ka jowct]
BTW getting rid of that folder did NOT work for me...

So far as I can recall (and I admit it's been a long time so I may not recall correctly), trashing those files has worked every time that I've encountered the problem.
Ditto...I've never run into a machine it didn't fix it.

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C(-)ris wrote:
Welcome to 2 and a half years ago

Go to Macintosh HD/library/preferences/SystemConfiguration then drag the last folder to the desktop, then reboot. You will have to setup your network config again, but will not have the problem. One of the Apple 10.4 combo updates caused this problem.

so is this a bug only in 10.4 or it also happens in leoprads?

[C(-)ris]

10.4 only.

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C(-)ris wrote:
10.4 only.

thank. I have been running 10.4. on this powerbook even since it came out (5 years this month IIRC) and never saw this error. I plan to upgrade to 10.5 soon as a last step before I retire the PB

[ka jowct]

So far as I can recall (and I admit it's been a long time so I may not recall correctly), trashing those files has worked every time that I've encountered the problem.


It did not work at all. After trashing the files and restarting, the problem was right back. Other people have also reported having no success with that fix. Works for some people, obviously.

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