Spotlight won't work after clean install

same here on my macbook, but really cannot tell when this started exactely. older items than approx. three weeks are still found by spotlight.
could an admin please mark this question un-answered?

mdutil, when pointed to / returns the following:

macbook:~ michael$ mdutil -i on /
/:
Error: unable to perform operation. (-1)
No index.

same for "mdutil -E /".

help, anyone? :/

same problem here, mdutil -i on / doesn't work because it says No index. Doesn't matter if I sudo or not.

Still no solution? I tried verbose mode (mdutil -iv on /) and now it added "unexpected indexing state (v)"
There's a lot of people experiencing this and it's really awful.
I suggest that there might be a connection to the partition table since when I try to add Macintosh HD to the Spotlight prefs privacy list, instead of Macintosh HD it adds the volume "Untitled x", x being a number increasing by one every time I restart! But this Untitled x is not my Macintosh HD, but it is my Windows XP partition created with Bootcamp, as I can see from the Festplatten-Dienstprogramm (harddrive service program, I don't know what it is called in English)

Message was edited by: mluescher for better understanding 🙂

Thanks for your replies. I don't have the knowhow to pursue this, but keep hoping it will come right each time I install a system update.

In the meantime I have been using Google Desktop, which has its limitations, but at least it indexes all my volumes.