Rapidly cycling nibindd crash

[Pointrau]

I get the following sequence of messages generated EVERY FEW SECONDS on the console:

Formulating crash report for process nibindd7568
(com.apple.nibindd7568) Exited abnormally: Trace/BPT trap
Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds

I don't need to be doing anything overt -- I can just sit and watch it scroll. All applications seems to behave normally, but I imagine that this never-ending cycles slows things down.

The com.apple.nibindd.plist file reads:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.nibindd</string>
<key>OnDemand</key>
<false/>
<key>ServiceIPC</key>
<false/>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/nibindd</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>

Thanks for any suggestions!

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Strange... I assume that file is some sort of NetInfo file; perhaps to "bind" something... "ni" = "NetInfo", "bind" = "bind", "d" = "daemon".

Was your computer ever hooked into a network with a directory service running?

I found this article, which seems to imply that a NetInfo database has become corrupt somehow/somewhere:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darw.../msg00092.html

[Pointrau]

Thanks for interpreting the nibindd acronym! This computer has logged on to networks at hotels, airports, etc, so I'm not sure about whether its ever been on a network where a directory service was running. What seems odd to me is that Leopard does away with Netinfo altogether, so maybe the problem is a legacy from something that was installed under Tiger or earlier. In any event, I have now tried trashing the nibindd.plist file, and things seem to be OK: no nibindd crash, and network access is fine. I guess I'll find out if there are repercussions to deleting that file!