A Racoon is nibbling on my console log again!

I checked the console logs today (some unrelated problem) and discovered these being spammed every 5 seconds or so:

racoon38 38 ERROR: failed select (Invalid argument)

The discussions I have found on this, typically refer to upgrading to 10.6.1 or later.

The solutions seem to be:

  • Rebooting
  • Disabling VPN
  • Terminating the Racoon process (Kill -15 (Kill process) was sufficient to get rid of the process.)

Terminating the process should work, rebooting the computer will restore it, or possibly LaunchD will restart the process if necessary…

I will be trying to re-apply the Combo 10.6.4 upgrade to see if that resolves this issue…