Problems with Sonoma? System settings, nothing in Siri & Spotlight

kitty_kat_kl wrote:

Am I missing something? Sonoma has been glitchy and battery draining and I see this now. (screen shot) I'm pretty sure there used to be something there when you clicked on Siri & Spotlight, but there is nothing now. It's like it isn't an option to change anything now. All other categories/settings work.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/3249c12f-d360-412a-976e-b2d46f62846a

The Software Update heading is part of "General" setting, try backing out and see if you can make any progress.

if no insight or resolve—

try a SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

i am also having this issue but only for one user account while for the other user account on the same machine it just works.

when looking into console it can be seen that there is a crash in SiriPreferenceExtension

Process:               SiriPreferenceExtension [1530]
Path:                  /System/Library/ExtensionKit/Extensions/SiriPreferenceExtension.appex/Contents/MacOS/SiriPreferenceExtension
Identifier:            com.apple.Siri-Settings.extension
Version:               1.0 (1)
Build Info:            SiriPlugins-3302005001000000~14
Code Type:             ARM-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        launchd [1]

Date/Time:             2024-01-15 20:10:09.0732 +0100
OS Version:            macOS 14.2.1 (23C71)


Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 6 Abort trap: 6
Terminating Process:   SiriPreferenceExtension [1530]

Application Specific Information:
abort() called


Thread 0 Crashed::  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib        	       0x183ace0dc __pthread_kill + 8
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib       	       0x183b05cc0 pthread_kill + 288
2   libsystem_c.dylib             	       0x183a11a40 abort + 180
3   libswiftCore.dylib            	       0x1937416c8 swift::fatalErrorv(unsigned int, char const*, char*) + 128
4   libswiftCore.dylib            	       0x1937416e8 swift::fatalError(unsigned int, char const*, ...) + 32
5   libswiftCore.dylib            	       0x1937353d4 swift::swift_dynamicCastFailure(void const*, char const*, void const*, char const*, char const*) + 80
6   libswiftCore.dylib            	       0x193735450 swift::swift_dynamicCastFailure(swift::TargetMetadata<swift::InProcess> const*, swift::TargetMetadata<swift::InProcess> const*, char const*) + 124
7   libswiftCore.dylib            	       0x19373aad8 swift_dynamicCast + 344
8   SiriPreferenceExtension       	       0x1048c1360 0x104898000 + 168800
9   SiriPreferenceExtension       	       0x1048c0f28 0x104898000 + 167720
10  SiriPreferenceExtension       	       0x1048c00ac 0x104898000 + 164012
11  libdispatch.dylib             	       0x183954910 _dispatch_client_callout + 20
12  libdispatch.dylib             	       0x18395614c _dispatch_once_callout + 32
13  SiriPreferenceExtension       	       0x1048c0140 0x104898000 + 164160
14  SiriPreferenceExtension       	       0x1048c6100 0x104898000 + 188672
15  SwiftUI                       	       0x1af4dfa3c 0x1ae761000 + 14150204
16  SwiftUI                       	       0x1aef6106c 0x1ae761000 + 8388716
17  SwiftUI                       	       0x1aef60778 0x1ae761000 + 8386424
18  SwiftUI                       	       0x1afff2758 0x1ae761000 + 25761624
19  SwiftUI                       	       0x1afff2798 0x1ae761000 + 25761688
20  libswiftCore.dylib            	       0x193400230 withUnsafeMutablePointer<A, B>(to:_:) + 28
21  SwiftUI                       	       0x1afff25ec 0x1ae761000 + 25761260
22  SwiftUI                       	       0x1afff2214 0x1ae761000 + 25760276
23  SwiftUI                       	       0x1afa74b6c 0x1ae761000 + 20003692
24  AttributeGraph                	       0x1b05ab7a4 AG::Graph::UpdateStack::update() + 512
25  AttributeGraph                	       0x1b05abfe0 AG::Graph::update_attribute(AG::data::ptr<AG::Node>, unsigned int) + 424
26  AttributeGraph                	       0x1b05b49f8 AG::Graph::input_value_ref_slow(AG::data::ptr<AG::Node>, AG::AttributeID, unsigned int, unsigned int, AGSwiftMetadata const*, unsigned char&, long) + 720
27  AttributeGraph                	       0x1b05ccc40 AGGraphGetValue + 228
28  SwiftUI                       	       0x1afff15d8 0x1ae761000 + 25757144
29  SwiftUI                       	       0x1afff1be0 0x1ae761000 + 25758688
30  SwiftUI                       	       0x1afff17c4 0x1ae761000 + 25757636
....
140 AppKit                        	       0x1873d56f4 +[NSAnimationContext runAnimationGroup:] + 56
141 SwiftUI                       	       0x1af609960 0x1ae761000 + 15370592
142 SwiftUI                       	       0x1af609f58 0x1ae761000 + 15372120
143 AppKit                        	       0x187e50af4 ___NSViewLayout_block_invoke + 592
144 AppKit                        	       0x187400714 NSPerformVisuallyAtomicChange + 108
145 AppKit                        	       0x187405244 _NSViewLayout + 96
146 AppKit                        	       0x187e470cc __36-[NSView _layoutSubtreeWithOldSize:]_block_invoke + 364
147 AppKit                        	       0x187400714 NSPerformVisuallyAtomicChange + 108
...