Wifi --- wifivelocityd spamming system log

[makk]

Hello,

 

Thank you all for this site and all the help!! 

 

Without this forum no way could I get this to work!

 

Slice, Rehabman, Toleda, Slurpi, SavageAsus, Artur, ErmaC, all .

 

I spent months working on this to work.

 

One by one I have moved forward.

 

Wow!

 

Now I have this wifi issue.  Not sure why it is like this..

 

Its this com.apple.xxx.xxx necessary?  If not I should comment it out or something?

 

Thank you

Mak

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[Riley Freeman]

I've been getting this on both of my Sierra installs since the first beta. I'm just putting up with it for now as Sierra in general is a lot more heavy on the Console spam.

[makk]

I've been getting this on both of my Sierra installs since the first beta. I'm just putting up with it for now as Sierra in general is a lot more heavy on the Console spam.

 

Hi Riley,

 

this is quite annoying. sorry to hear that you've been having this from day 1.

 

when I find a fix I'll post.

 

Thanks a million!

 

Mak

[makk]

Heres' the fix:

 

Go to these two Folders:

 

System/Library/LaunchAgents

System/Library/LaunchDaemons

 

a few steps involved

 

two files to remove from these directory's

 

1   this is a Daemon     "com.apple.wifivelocityd.plist"

2.  this is an Agent       "com.apple.WiFiVelocityAgent.plist"

 

Do the Get Info at each Folder, unlock then add your user to read and write.  

 

move to safe location

 

might need them later after we figure out what they are for.

 

Reboot and check your Console Messages.  They're gone!  No more spamming the log file every millisecond.

 

****IN ADDITION there is another spammer logger

 

If you look in Console for messages that respawn every so many seconds here's another one.

 

com.apple.NowPlayingTouchUI.plist.  

 

This one is in the Same Folder. S/L/LaunchAgents  S/L/LaunchDaemon

Edited January 13, 2017 by makiko

[tluck]

this could be a clue to the issue?

 

WiFiVelocityAgent: (EmbeddedOSSupportHost) IORegistry entry 'IODeviceTree:/efi/platform' does not contain the key 'apple-coprocessor-version'

[Riley Freeman]

EmbeddedOSSupportHost sounds touchbar-related and this spam issue has been around since the first Sierra releases.

 

For now I fix it with:

 

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.wifivelocityd.plist Disabled -bool YES

[makk]

EmbeddedOSSupportHost sounds touchbar-related and this spam issue has been around since the first Sierra releases.

 

For now I fix it with:

 

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.wifivelocityd.plist Disabled -bool YES

 

Hi Riley 

 

I found that the above command does not hold.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Mak

[Riley Freeman]

Is it throwing up an error when you run it? If you have SIP enabled you need to allow unrestricted filesystem access to modify the plist. From the clover menu go through the options until you get to the System Integrity Protection section and tick the box to allow it.

 

You can check the plist to see if it wrote the Disabled property to it. It works on both of my Sierra installs here.

[makk]

Is it throwing up an error when you run it? If you have SIP enabled you need to allow unrestricted filesystem access to modify the plist. From the clover menu go through the options until you get to the System Integrity Protection section and tick the box to allow it.

 

You can check the plist to see if it wrote the Disabled property to it. It works on both of my Sierra installs here.

 

Hi Riley,

 

Yes I have SIP disabled to allow plist modification.

 

The plist  has a Disabled > YES

But it still runneth over.

 

What else could be wrong?

 

Mak

[makk]

Hi Riley,

 

 

We fix.   when I moved the plist I had reset the permissions.  that was the problem.

 

works as you said.

 

Thanks Riley,

 

wifi velocity it is rather interesting wonder what it's actually for?

 

Mak