Mac App Store Crashes

I can't get mac app store to launch and 10.6.6 won't load since I've already updated to 10.6.7. Any other thoughts?

Danny

I was in the same boat, having dowloaded 10.6.7 with no easy way of reverting back. I tried all of the suggestions to no avail. Finally, I noticed the app store app (in Applications) worked fine on my other Mac, a MacBook Pro, so I just deleted the corrucpt one and replaced it with the copy from my laptop. It works fine now.

That post was dated May 15. If you still need help...

Install the 10.6.7 combo update. Ok to do this even if you are already running v10.6.7

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1361

Restart your Mac after the update is installed. Check your Applications folder. Hopefully the App Store was reinstalled for you.

If not, use Pacifist to extract the App Store folder from the v10.6.7 .dmg file.

After i moved my boot disk from HD to SSD, I encountered a few roblems:

1. Safari, Mac App Store, Quick Time all stopped running. The 'orange color' icon replaced the original icons. They all crashed every time I launched.

2. Time Machine still runs, but has the same 'range color' icon.

3. I can no longer change Time Machine backup options. The system requires an admin login and password which I do not recall I set it up.

Trying to eat ready to download Lion. Any help you can extend would be most appreciated.

Joseph

MBP 2009, OSX 10.6.8

I was having the same problem. Mac Pro, 10.6.8, unmounted every volume, blown away all of the App Preferences and caches in ~/Library, have rebooted (!!!!), tried the OCSP fixes, etc., and still no dice. When I click on the Upgrade or Buy buttons in the App Store, the program spins and becomes unresponsive. But! it looks like the reason many of us are having this problem is because we all disabled Spot Light. If you re-enable Spot Light, you can begin to download Lion or click Updates in the App Store. Hurray for our side, but **** it... Spot Light is/was slow. Sad fix, but at least things work again.

To re-enable Spot Light:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

TIP: While debugging, you can learn a lot about what's going on via:

dtruss -af '/Applications/App\ Store.app/Contents/MacOS/App\ Store' > & /tmp/app_store2.dtruss cat /tmp/app_store2.dtruss | cut -d '/' -f 2- | sort -nk 1,2 | & less

Holy crud... disabling spotlight cripples the app store?

I can verify that re-enabling spotlight cured this problem for me. Thanks chitt!

This fixed my App Store, now I can actually download Lion!

I was having the same problem. Mac Pro, 10.6.8, unmounted every volume, blown away all of the App Preferences and caches in ~/Library, have rebooted (!!!!), tried the OCSP fixes, etc., and still no dice. When I click on the Upgrade or Buy buttons in the App Store, the program spins and becomes unresponsive. But! it looks like the reason many of us are having this problem is because we all disabled Spot Light. If you re-enable Spot Light, you can begin to download Lion or click Updates in the App Store. Hurray for our side, but **** it... Spot Light is/was slow. Sad fix, but at least things work again.

10.6.8 here, same issue although I had not disabled spotlight. However, it had been trying to estimate indexing time for the better part of the last 2 or 3 days with the mds process hogging most of a processor core.

solution:

disable indexing on system drive — sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/SYSTEM_VOLUME_NAME

if the command hangs, find out the pid for mds — sudo kill -9 MDS_PID

to find out the pid run — top — once it is running type o then -cpu and press return — the mds process should be in the list beside its pid number

(to get out of top, press q)

I am having the same problem. I've not been able to download an app from the appstore EVER. I'm not sure what and how you mean to re enable spotlight? What is "sudo mdutl" etc?

Thank you!

Joe