iSight stopped working on Mavericks 10.9.2 update - CPU overloading

Delete /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.cmio.VDCAssistant.plist and then restart your computer. That will stop the ReportCrashes taking up all your CPU and disk (unless you try and access isight again)

But How about the isight Camera, it stop working since I update from 10.9.1 to 10.9.2, how I can fix it?

Thanks!

You can't get your camera working again until Apple release a fix unless you restore 10.9.1 from one of your backups - but don't do any internet banking if you do...

I'm cross posting this on all the related threads I can find because it seems you *can* get your camera working again:

"On a similar thread removing Air Display, AirParrot or the DisplayLink drivers (which ever you have installed) has fixed this problem for a few people. Check for these and remove them if you have them. It may help..."

Thanks for this cross-post. Removing AirDisplay was the key for me. Before that, having upgraded to 10.9.2 my Mac was stuck in an endless cycle where VDCAssistant was seemingly calling ReportCrash again and again and again, taking up 98% of CPU.

2014-03-01 8:37:46.265 PM ReportCrash[5920]: Saved crash report for VDCAssistant[6159] version 4561 to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VDCAssistant_2014-03-01-203746_MBP.crash

2014-03-01 8:37:46.812 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.cmio.VDCAssistant[6160]) Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap: 6

...etc.

Great thanks, Timw321,

Uninstall the AirParrot solve my problem completely, my FaceTime work again.

And no moe error and crash report in 10.9.2

Hi, UnderEu,

I think to uninstall "AirParrot", "DiskplayLink" or simmialr Apps in Mavericaks, not only you have to move the Apps to Trash Bin, But also you need to uninstall their Audio & Video drivers & Settings. (which is the reason case the Crash of the system)

For the case of AirParrot, you need to do following command in Terminial Line to clear out the driver and setting:

• sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/APExtFramebuffer.kext
• sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/AirParrotDriver.kext

More Detail please click on link:

http://support.airsquirrels.com/article.php?id=8

I used the uninstall tool provided on airsquirrels website to uninstall AirParrot. Restarted. At first the camera was still not working but after a few minutes the camera started working again, for Photo Booth, FaceTime, Skype, etc. Restarted again and it's the same deal. I didn't do any OS reinstall or SMC reset.

Sometimes it takes a while because, I think, caches have to be rebuilt. And sometimes you have to start Skype to kick off the rebuild - Facetime or Photobooth don't do it. But, TBH, the time taken to recover is sufficiently long that I'm not sure which is cause and which is effect.

I think, in mine and one other case, doing this:

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions

in terminal followed by a reboot did it. But whatever does it, it's worth waiting 20 minutes after a reboot and retesting before re-installing....unless you really want to do a clean install.

I delete all apps mentioned above,Airdisplay, Airparrot, iDisplay, and didn't work.

Before a clean install (i really need one), but is a pain to me reinstall everything.... I thought I should try one more thing.

Than I remove VMWARE and PARALLELS. (only the app, not the virtual machine - keep the machine until appear a solution...)

Solved! Everything back to normal. iSight back to FaceTime and Skype.

Is a try to people who already try everything.

tim,

your solution worked .... until it didn't work again.

I no longer have the com.apple.cmio.VDCAssistant.plist file but I still see VDCAssistant crashing !

What else can I try ?

Tx

Max

This is driving me nuts! It appears I've got it fixed, then it happens again. I'm not sure who is at fault, but didn't have this issue until 10.9.2. I just need it to go away. I've uninstalled iDisplay and never had any other aforementioned app (airdisplay, Airparrot, etc.) installed and still experiencing the CPU overload. Whatever change was made in 10.9.2, please roll back. The heat my MBP is emitting is as hot as my head at this point.

If anyone else has suggestions, please suggest away! Thank you!

Which process is taking up most CPU when you use Activity Monitor? And what does your console say? Any repeating patterns?