Q: 10.8.2 spotlight indexing issue

Go to /System/Library/Sandbox/Profiles/ and there should be a file named "system.sb".

1 Make a backup of the original one and place somewhere safe on your harddisk.

2 Copy system.sb on the desktop to can edit.

3 Open it with a text editor and check for the block thext:

;;; Allow IPC to standard system agents.

(allow mach-lookup

       (global-name "com.apple.bsd.dirhelper")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.logger")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.notification_center")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.opendirectoryd.libinfo")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.DirectoryService.libinfo_v1")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.opendirectoryd.membership")

       (global-name "com.apple.xpcd"))

 

4 Add these 2 lines (in bold), then the block thext will look like this:

;;; Allow IPC to standard system agents.

(allow mach-lookup

       (global-name "com.apple.bsd.dirhelper")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.logger")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.notification_center")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.opendirectoryd.libinfo")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.DirectoryService.libinfo_v1")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.opendirectoryd.membership")

       (local-name "com.apple.ls.boxd")

       (global-name "com.apple.is.boxd")

       (global-name "com.apple.xpcd"))

 

5 Save system.sb on the destop, then delete the original one in the /System/Library/Sandbox/Profile and replace with this modified one. Spotlight (mdworker) should calm down.

 

Thanks to Phobos.

This looks like it is working for us. THANK YOU!

Can someone confirm if the 'is.boxd' is an error and should be 'ls.boxd' please?

Thanks,

Hi Cwight

Yes, 'is.boxd' is an error, it should be 'ls.boxd'.

Before the fix, you see a lot of repeated messages in the log referring to an inability to communicate with "lsboxd" :

     mdworker: Unable to talk to lsboxd

     mdimporter: Unable to talk to lsboxd

     sandboxd: mdworker(692) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd

These disappear after the fix.      

(Notice that there never were "isboxd" errors in the log)

Note also that you must take care to look in the correct directory: /System/Library/Sandbox/Profiles/

Not /Library/Sandbox/Profiles/ and not ~/Library/Sandbox/Profiles/

HTH

Eric

Ok thanks,

I've pretty new at all this particulalry with a Mac. I did it (I'm sure as it said) but I just got the dreaded swirling ball on startup. Eventually I had to reinstall ML. My computer seems better now (Macbook Air 13'), but the console is sill showing some errors; should I be concerned about these, particulalry the constant calendar agent ones:

30/04/13 5:18:23.483 PM lsboxd[371]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 259f0005, actual seed is b9a3c9f5

            1   OSServices 0x00007fff8eaae720 _ZL26ISGetIconFamilyFromStoragejPP17CIconStorageArrayPj + 140

            2   OSServices 0x00007fff8eaae8c8 _ISReleaseStorageRefInternal + 33

            3   OSServices 0x00007fff8eaae88e _ISReleaseStorageRefWithCache + 40

            4   OSServices 0x00007fff8eaae7cb _ZL25ISReleaseImageRefInternalP16OpaqueISImageRefPPK9__CFArray + 72

            5   OSServices 0x00007fff8eaae75e _ISReleaseImageRef + 49

            6   OSServices 0x00007fff8eaa7b01 _ZN18SFLMutableListItem7DestroyEv + 23

            7   OSServices 0x00007fff8eaa7acf _Z14SFLItemReleaseP16OpaqueSFLItemRef + 36

            8 OSServices 0x00007fff8eaa9539 _ZN11SFLListBase7DestroyEv + 41

            9   OSServices 0x00007fff8eaa94e6 _SFLReleaseSnapshot + 49

            10  lsboxd 0x000000010fab0376 lsboxd + 9078

            11  libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff88fba0b6 _dispatch_client_callout + 8

            12  libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff88fbc29b _dispatch_source_invoke + 691

            13  libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff88fbb305 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 72

            14  libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff88fbb448 _dispatch_queue_drain + 180

            15  libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff88fbb2f1 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 52

            16  libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff88fbb1c3 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 249

            17  libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8cba7d0b _pthread_wqthread + 404

            18  libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8cb921d1 start_wqthread + 13

30/04/13 5:18:30.626 PM CalendarAgent[335]: -[SOAPParser:0x7fcf3bc2bf70 parser:didStartElement:namespaceURI:qualifiedName:attributes:] Type not found in SOAPDocument for html (html)

30/04/13 5:18:30.627 PM CalendarAgent[335]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.exchange.queue] [error = Error Domain=CalExchangeErrorDomain Code=-2 "Calendar can’t refresh the account “Work”." UserInfo=0x7fcf3ba08c20 {NSLocalizedFailureReason=The primary email address for the account can’t be found., CalFailedOperationKey=<CalExchangeSyncAccountOperation: 0x7fcf3b8b2d90>, NSLocalizedDescription=Calendar can’t refresh the account “Work”.}]

30/04/13 5:19:29.626 PM CalendarAgent[335]: -[SOAPParser:0x7fcf3bb95260 parser:didStartElement:namespaceURI:qualifiedName:attributes:] Type not found in SOAPDocument for html (html)

  30/04/13 5:19:29.627 PM CalendarAgent[335]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.exchange.queue] [error = Error Domain=CalExchangeErrorDomain Code=-2 "Calendar can’t refresh the account “Work”." UserInfo=0x7fcf3ba568b0 {NSLocalizedFailureReason=The primary email address for the account can’t be found.,

Hi Cwight

What you have here is a different problem than the rest of this thread.

I reccomend you do some searches on various terms in these error messages, particularly "Calendar can’t refresh the account".

Read the topic at:  https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4154209?start=45&tstart=0

Try some of the solutions, if nothing works, start a new thread on this.

oh I have set up in the file system.sb in 10.8.4 ...

;;; Allow IPC to standard system agents.

(allow mach-lookup

       (global-name "com.apple.bsd.dirhelper")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.logger")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.notification_center")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.opendirectoryd.libinfo")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.DirectoryService.libinfo_v1")

       (global-name "com.apple.system.opendirectoryd.membership")

       (local-name "com.apple.ls.boxd")

       (global-name "com.apple.ls.boxd")

       (global-name "com.apple.xpcd"))

and I woke up to the computer still running very slow and spotlight up to it's old tricks. I got Unable to talk to lsboxd twice so far after restarting spotlight.

7/11/13 10:55:23.690 AM mdworker[37179]: Unable to talk to lsboxd

7/11/13 11:07:27.153 AM mdworker[37274]: Unable to talk to lsboxd

Model Name:          Mac Pro

  Model Identifier:          MacPro5,1

  Processor Name:          6-Core Intel Xeon

  Processor Speed:          2.66 GHz

  Number of Processors:          2

  Total Number of Cores:          12

  L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB

  L3 Cache (per Processor):          12 MB

  Memory:          16 GB

DID IT FOR ME TOO!!!

thank you for this higly sophisticated tip, shame on apple,

had to reboot ML, otherwise no work with any restart.

I hope you guys who need it have used DISKMAKER, otherwise anothe 5 hours wasted, shame on apple to not have a stardtisk or similar orr a Apple diskmaker.

but so releaved to be using my MBP normally again!

Hi, I tried your solution

Removing:

/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.afpstat.plist

and

/Library/Cache/com.apple.coresymbolicationd

but it did not work for me. Still I could see more cpu usage by mds and mdworker. Here is my Activity Indicator image, I could see lot of free memory, also not much application opened tht time. This kills all my work, all i/o goes down, mac becomes very slow response every few seconds... And there is no spotlight indexing also that time. This happens all the time.

Please help me fixing this.

Appreciate the suggestion - after many months of being frustrated, I found this thread.  This seem to have fixed my spotlight problem.  Previously, I had tried to force spotlight to rebulid and restart in safe mode (kept getting stuck at 25%), all to no avail.  I removed this and the other coresymbol file and spotlight indexing finished in a few hours.  Thank you!