Mavericks: Spotlight Indexing Forever!

Day 3 starts and I want to smash this machine against the wall! 😠 Seriously.

It seems I have to accept a slow-down in my work either by staring at beachballs or go for another clean install like I had to do after my last OS up-grade. What an annoyance! I wonder why I am (we are?) so patient with Apple who continue to release products that are just not properly tested.

I found a hint by Linc Davis and used the "mdutil -as" and "mount" command in Terminal. This is what I get. Does this tell anyone anything? I'm not a geek...

mdutil -asHomes-MacBook-7:~ Home$ mdutil -as

/:

Error: unexpected indexing state. kMDConfigSearchLevelTransitioning

/.MobileBackups:

2013-10-28 07:58:55.884 mdutil[920:507] Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStoreAttributes failed: (8) (os/kern) no access

No index.

/Volumes/MobileBackups:

Index is read-only.

/Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb:

Index is read-only.

Homes-MacBook-7:~ Home$

Homes-MacBook-7:~ Home$ mount

/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)

devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)

map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)

map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

localhost:/E9uZVax9sCSPTZGTxR6cXF on /Volumes/MobileBackups (mtmfs, nosuid, read-only, nobrowse)

Homes-MacBook-7:~ Home$

Thanks Carolyn!

When I opened the activity monitor, I found 5 processes mdworker at the same time. While 'force quit' them, new ones keep popping up. Somehting wrong here, right?

After more and more hours of frustration I found this in Console after adding and then re-deleting my HDD to the spotlight privacy list.

This doesn't tell me anything and I am still hoping for some help from you guys... Will be hapy to share the crash report in case this leads to anything...

10/28/13 8:25:44.830 PM ReportCrash[377]: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.

10/28/13 8:25:50.011 PM mds[38]: (Warning) DiskStore: Got indexer death

10/28/13 8:25:50.012 PM mds[38]: (Warning) DiskStore: Got indexer death

10/28/13 8:25:50.296 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.metadata.mds.index[91]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10

10/28/13 8:25:50.336 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:25:50.337 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:25:50.337 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:25:50.337 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:25:50.337 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:25:50.337 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:25:50.337 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:25:50.338 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:25:50.339 PM mds_stores[383]: (Error) Permissions: Failed stat on perm journal with error 9

10/28/13 8:25:51.160 PM ReportCrash[377]: Saved crash report for mds_stores[91] version 800.12 to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_stores_2013-10-28-202551_Homes-MacBook-7.cr ash

10/28/13 8:25:56.562 PM mds_stores[383]: (Error) SecureStore: Access token 6 changed uid from -1 to 502

10/28/13 8:26:12.000 PM kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.

10/28/13 8:26:13.037 PM mds[38]: (Warning) DiskStore: Got indexer death

10/28/13 8:26:13.037 PM mds[38]: (Warning) DiskStore: Got indexer death

10/28/13 8:26:13.042 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.metadata.mds.index[383]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10

10/28/13 8:26:13.155 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:26:13.155 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:26:13.156 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:26:13.156 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:26:13.156 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:26:13.156 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:26:13.157 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:26:13.157 PM mds[38]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"

10/28/13 8:26:13.164 PM ReportCrash[377]: Saved crash report for mds_stores[383] version 800.12 to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_stores_2013-10-28-202613_Homes-MacBook-7.cr ash

10/28/13 8:26:16.499 PM mds_stores[399]: (Error) SecureStore: Access token 6 changed uid from -1 to 502

10/28/13 8:26:31.000 PM kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.

then this stuff goes on and on...

😠 😠 😠

Well, lacking any input and thus alternatives, I just went for the timemachine backup. 3 hours for restoring, now waiting another half an hour for mail import. At least I can work again. Thank you Apple...!

And is this related to Mavericks installation?

You may find a couple of hints in the "more like this box" on the right at the top of this page. However, didn't solve my specific problem...

Yes, that was my question.

Lots of people report that the indexing itself takes a lot of time (you have probaly seen the threads), but I have not seen others who have this problem of just estimating the indexing time forever...

Tony, I did the same, but the error continued.