Spotlight / mdwrite problem

Running 10.7.2 here. I just noticed that Spotlight seems to be forever indexing. Now, I'm getting a general 'mdwrite error, this report will be sent to Apple automatically', whenever I hit the spotlight command or select the magnifying glass icon on the toolbar.

Nuisance. I have a call into Apple support about this. Has only happened recently AFAIK.

If I find out anything, will post back!

H

The problem I was having with mdwrite eventually caused me to reinstall Lion. The runaway process 'went away' and all returned to some semblance of normalcy. It's been a few days and all is sitll well. (keeping fingers crossed).

Same thing here. Crashes every time I use spotlight with an error about restting the keychain:

Process: mdwrite [446]

Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadat a.framework/Versions/A/Support/mdwrite

Identifier: mdwrite

Version: ??? (563)

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [143]

Date/Time: 2011-12-01 11:52:54.184 -0500

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74)

Report Version: 9

Interval Since Last Report: 3558268 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 18

Anonymous UUID: DA4E46E7-8447-4E6F-B620-989D6F6F3790

Crashed Thread: 2 Dispatch queue: <XPCServiceSerialInvocationChannel: 0x10ce20f60>

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Couldn't reset keychain settings! [osErr:100013]'

It's really annoying:

Feb 3 01:29:13 aristotle mdwrite[409]: *** Assertion failure in -[MDKeyRing _copyKeychain], /SourceCache/Spotlight/Spotlight-627.20/xpc-services/mdwrite/MDKeyRing.m:118

Feb 3 01:29:13 aristotle mdwrite[409]: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Couldn't reset keychain settings! [osErr:100013]'

*** First throw call stack:

(

0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93b7c286 __exceptionPreprocess + 198

1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8bf9ed5e objc_exception_throw + 43

2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93b7c0ba +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106

3 Foundation 0x00007fff89bc17d3 -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 169

4 mdwrite 0x000000010f70a575 mdwrite + 38261

5 mdwrite 0x000000010f70a8ed mdwrite + 39149

6 mdwrite 0x000000010f70ba44 mdwrite + 43588

7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff87119224 dispatch_once_f + 53

8 mdwrite 0x000000010f70b2f5 mdwrite + 41717

9 mdwrite 0x000000010f708df5 mdwrite + 32245

10 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93b6e20c __invoking___ + 140

11 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93b6e0a4 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 132

12 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93b6e274 -[NSInvocation invokeWithTarget:] + 52

13 mdwrite 0x000000010f70c42c mdwrite + 46124

14 mdwrite 0x000000010f70e43a mdwrite + 54330

15 mdwrite 0x000000010f70e6de mdwrite + 55006

16 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8711a2b6 _dispatch_source_invoke + 635

17 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff87116f77 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 71

18 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff871170d4 _dispatch_queue_drain + 210

19 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff87116f66 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 54

20 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff871170d4 _dispatch_queue_drain + 210

21 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff87116f66 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 54

22 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff87116760 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 198

23 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff939123da _pthread_wqthread + 316

24 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff93913b85 start_wqthread + 13

)

Feb 3 01:29:13 aristotle com.apple.metadata.mdwrite[409]: terminate called throwing an exception

Feb 3 01:29:14 aristotle com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[217] (com.apple.metadata.mdwrite[409]): Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap: 6

I had the same problem. Deleted the finder.plist, com.apple.finder.E7803C19-9AD2-57DC-BEEA-051EBDEE064C.plist.lockfile and finder.lockfile in the user library preferences folder. After that the error described by Micheal Rogers4 didn't appear again. I noticed somethig was wrong when I tried to set the "view all files option" in finder with the terminal entry: 'defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true' and it didn't work.

I have the same problem as well.

I just bought the brand new MacBook Air (2011 mid).

Have you installed Apple Remote Desktop?

I have tried to re-install clean 10.7.

And found that this problem occurs JUST AFTER it is installed.

New findings:

I did another clean 10.7 installation and did this:

1. Select my home folder on Finder.
2. Click the lock button. (input my password)
3. Select the Everyone group
4. Select No Access
5. Select apply to enclosed folders.
6. Click ok to apply.

And this reproduce the mdwrite problem.

So, I am guessing this is only about the permission of my home folder.

Not about ARD.

I'll try to install Apple Remote Desktop only later.

To proove my idea.

Hi Guys,

I hope the following will help you.

I check my permission at /User/Library/Keychains/metadata.keychain.

The owner was wrong.

When I change the Owner to my user, everthing would be all right!