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Mojave: apps crash on launch and when searching menu items

Currently I have the situation that a few apps crash on launch (amongst others Things, Google Drive File Stream) and every app crashes when you search the app's menu items through the help menu item. I looked into the console and almost all of them have a variation of these error messages:


(

0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff3d9b3cf9 __exceptionPreprocess + 256

1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff68543a17 objc_exception_throw + 48

2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff3d9f2cf4 -[CFPrefsConfigurationFileSource initWithConfigurationPropertyList:containingPreferences:] + 0

3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff3d8ef9b3 -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:] + 151

4   Shortcut                            0x00007fff61fc710f SCTParseSearchStringToSearchTerms + 151

5   Shortcut                            0x00007fff61fc6d36 SCTUserInterfaceItemRangeOfStringMatching + 145

6   Shortcut                            0x00007fff61fd1ff6 __55-[SCTGRLIndex findGRLsContainingString:limitResultsTo:]_block_invoke + 494

7   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff69d235f8 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12

8   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff69d2463d _dispatch_client_callout + 8

9   libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff69d26a53 _dispatch_queue_override_invoke + 763

10  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff69d323bc _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 324

11  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff69d32b46 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 90

12  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff69f5e6b3 _pthread_wqthread + 583

13  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff69f5e3fd start_wqthread + 13

)



rejecting write of key _DKThrottledActivityLast_DKKnowledgeStorageLogging_DKKnowledgeStorageDidInsertEventsNotification:/app/usageActivityDate in { com.apple.contextstored, root, kCFPreferencesAnyHost, no container, managed: 0 } from process 124 because setting preferences outside an application's container requires user-preference-write or file-write-data sandbox access


Couldn't write value for key _DKThrottledActivityLast_DKKnowledgeStorageLogging_DKKnowledgeStorageDidInsertEventsNotification:/app/usageActivityDate in CFPrefsPlistSource<0x7fc4fd102a30> (Domain: com.apple.contextstored, User: kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, ByHost: No, Container: (null), Contents Need Refresh: Yes): setting preferences outside an application's container requires user-preference-write or file-write-data sandbox access


The issue has something to do with my user account, as on a newly created user account the problem doesn't appear to happen. I already tried reinstalling the computer but that also didn't solve the problem.

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 8, 2019 2:54 AM

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Posted on Apr 8, 2019 3:26 AM

See if the problem also occurs in Safe Mode.

Also, see if the problem occurs when booted normally, and logged in to a new user account.


Then run Etrecheck and post its report here.


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