Relating to 
https://rt.sussex.ac.uk/Ticket/Display.html?id=27812
— *selections* from the Console view of all messages:

23/05/2008 10:39:09 configd[15] setting hostname to "macbookpro03.centrim.freeman-centre.ac.uk" 
23/05/2008 10:39:09 mDNSResponder[17] SetupAddr invalid sa_family 0 
23/05/2008 10:39:09 mDNSResponder[17] SetupAddr invalid sa_family 0 
23/05/2008 10:39:10 com.apple.KerberosAutoConfig[1545] Couldn't find KerberosClient config record 
23/05/2008 10:39:13 com.apple.KerberosAutoConfig[1547] Kerberos configuration is up to date 
23/05/2008 10:39:14 mDNSResponder[17] getifaddrs ifa_netmask for vmnet8(7) Flags 8863 Family  2 172.16.46.1 has different family: 0 
23/05/2008 10:39:14 mDNSResponder[17] getifaddrs ifa_netmask for vmnet1(8) Flags 8863 Family  2 172.16.119.1 has different family: 0 
23/05/2008 10:39:14 mDNSResponder[17] SetupAddr invalid sa_family 0 
23/05/2008 10:39:14 mDNSResponder[17] SetupAddr invalid sa_family 0 
23/05/2008 10:39:18 com.apple.KerberosAutoConfig[1560] Kerberos configuration is up to date 
23/05/2008 10:39:46 /usr/sbin/ocspd[1565] starting 
23/05/2008 10:40:53 kernel AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/dodgy, pid 1525 

23/05/2008 10:40:57 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] Starting standard backup 
23/05/2008 10:40:57 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] Backup requested due to disk attach 
23/05/2008 10:40:57 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] Mounting disk image /Volumes/dodgy/macbookpro03.centrim_0016cb951098.sparsebundle 
23/05/2008 10:41:23 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] Disk image mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of macbookpro03.centrim 
23/05/2008 10:41:23 fseventsd[42] event logs in /Volumes/Backup of macbookpro03.centrim/.fseventsd out of sync with volume.  destroying old logs. (17537 13 36988) 
23/05/2008 10:41:23 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of macbookpro03.centrim/Backups.backupdb 
23/05/2008 10:41:24 fseventsd[42] log dir: /Volumes/Backup of macbookpro03.centrim/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 9B49C2B1-47B1-4E7C-9A16-B124C2052F9C 
23/05/2008 10:41:24 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] Backup requested due to disk attach 
23/05/2008 10:41:32 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: MBP 
23/05/2008 10:41:32 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable| 
23/05/2008 11:09:33 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] Mounting disk image /Volumes/dodgy/macbookpro03.centrim_0016cb951098.sparsebundle 
23/05/2008 11:09:36 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] Disk image mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of macbookpro03.centrim 
23/05/2008 11:33:24 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] No pre-backup thinning needed: 848.7 MB requested (including padding), 479.02 GB available 
23/05/2008 12:44:31 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1576] Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.