Lost the ability to spell check on all applications

I recently updated my system to Mavericks 10.9.4, since then I have lost the ability for spell checking in all applications. Check spelling while I type is not working and I am unable to check spelling manually through the app menus. Skype, Facebook, Notepad.. you name it, spelling correction functionality is no bueno. Has anyone ever heard of this? I have tried changing languages, booting in safe mode... the only thing I did notice was that the box to check "correct spelling automatically" won't stay checked, but clearly something else is wrong.

Posted on Jul 15, 2014 9:38 AM

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Jul 28, 2014 10:07 AM in response to Linc Davis

Start time: 12:48:12 07/28/14



Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,3

System Version: OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)

Kernel Version: Darwin 13.3.0

Boot Mode: Normal

Time since boot: 5 days 19:55



Diagnostic reports



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2014-07-16 Finder crash *

2014-07-16 MacKeeper hang

2014-07-18 MacKeeper hang

2014-07-23 iTunes hang

2014-07-28 Google Chrome Helper crash

* Code injection



Log



Jul 25 13:46:36 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid 12

Jul 25 13:46:46 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #1, bssid 12

Jul 25 13:46:49 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid 12

Jul 25 13:51:05 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid 12

Jul 25 13:51:09 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid 12

Jul 25 13:56:18 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid 12

Jul 25 13:56:27 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #1, bssid 12

Jul 25 13:56:31 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid 12

Jul 25 13:58:44 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid 12

Jul 25 13:58:52 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #1, bssid 12

Jul 25 13:58:56 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid 12

Jul 25 14:01:01 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid 12

Jul 25 14:01:12 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #1, bssid 12

Jul 25 14:01:15 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason #8, bssid 12

Jul 25 14:02:34 WARNING: hibernate_page_list_setall skipped 758556 xpmapped pages

Jul 25 14:03:36 WARNING: hibernate_page_list_setall skipped 819300 xpmapped pages

Jul 25 19:04:52 WARNING: hibernate_page_list_setall skipped 819300 xpmapped pages

Jul 25 19:05:54 WARNING: hibernate_page_list_setall skipped 881391 xpmapped pages

Jul 27 14:30:59 WARNING: hibernate_page_list_setall skipped 881391 xpmapped pages

Jul 27 14:31:58 WARNING: hibernate_page_list_setall skipped 953530 xpmapped pages

Jul 28 11:44:44 AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::validateChecksum - 512-byte packet checksum is incorrect (expected 0xe615, checksum bytes were 0xdead)

Jul 28 11:44:47 WARNING: hibernate_page_list_setall skipped 953530 xpmapped pages

Jul 28 11:45:16 WARNING: hibernate_page_list_setall skipped 1013980 xpmapped pages

Jul 28 11:46:17 WARNING: hibernate_page_list_setall skipped 1013980 xpmapped pages

Jul 28 11:46:21 WARNING: hibernate_page_list_setall skipped 1074763 xpmapped pages



Daemons



com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

com.google.keystone.daemon

com.ea.origin.ESHelper

com.barebones.authd

com.adobe.SwitchBoard

com.adobe.fpsaud



Agents



com.google.GoogleTalkPluginD.5488.UUID

com.adobe.PDApp.AAMUpdatesNotifier.36288.UUID

com.google.keystone.system.agent

com.canon.MFManager

com.Affinegy.InstaLANa

com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager

com.spotify.webhelper

com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate

com.akamai.single-user-client

com.adobe.ARM.UUID



launchd



/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

- com.adobe.AAM.Startup-1.0

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist

- com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.Affinegy.InstaLANa.plist

- com.Affinegy.InstaLANa

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.canon.MFManager.plist

- com.canon.MFManager

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist

- com.google.keystone.system.agent

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist

- com.teamviewer.teamviewer

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist

- com.teamviewer.desktop

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

- com.adobe.fpsaud

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist

- com.adobe.SwitchBoard

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.barebones.authd.plist

- com.barebones.authd

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.ea.origin.ESHelper.plist

- com.ea.origin.ESHelper

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

- com.google.keystone.daemon

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

- com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist

- com.teamviewer.service

Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

- com.adobe.AAM.Scheduler-1.0

Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.ARM.UUID.plist

- com.adobe.ARM.UUID

Library/LaunchAgents/com.akamai.single-user-client.plist

- com.akamai.single-user-client

Library/LaunchAgents/com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate.plist

- com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate

Library/LaunchAgents/com.spotify.webhelper.plist

- com.spotify.webhelper



Bundles



/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin

- com.adobe.acrobat.pdfviewer

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin

- com.adobe.acrobat.pdfviewerNPAPI

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin

- N/A

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin

- net.telestream.wmv.plugin

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin

- com.google.googletalkbrowserplugin

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

- com.apple.java.JavaAppletPlugin

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/o1dbrowserplugin.plugin

- com.google.o1dbrowserplugin

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

- com.microsoft.sharepoint.browserplugin

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SharePointWebKitPlugin.webplugin

- com.microsoft.sharepoint.webkitplugin

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin

- com.microsoft.SilverlightPlugin

/Library/PreferencePanes/Flash Player.prefPane

- com.adobe.flashplayerpreferences

/Library/PreferencePanes/Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane

- net.telestream.wmv.prefpane

/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane

- com.growl.prefpanel

/Library/QuickTime/CanonMJPEGAVI.component

- jp.co.canon.MJPEGAVIExporter

/Library/QuickTime/CanonMJPEGAVIDec.component

- jp.co.canon.CanonMJPEGAVIDec

/Library/QuickTime/CanonText.component

- jp.co.canon.Text

/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax

- N/A

Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/SkypeABDialer.bundle

- com.skype.skypeabdialer

Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/SkypeABSMS.bundle

- com.skype.skypeabsms

Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Extensions/Firebug Lite for Safari.safariextension

- com.slicefactory.firebug

Library/Internet Plug-Ins/CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin.plugin

- com.citrixonline.mac.WebDeploymentPlugin

Library/Internet Plug-Ins/WebEx.plugin

- com.webex.WebEx

Library/Internet Plug-Ins/WebEx.plugin/Contents/Resources

- com.webex.WebEx

Library/Internet Plug-Ins/WebEx64.plugin

- com.cisco_webex.plugin.gpc64

Library/iTunes/Mobile Backups/V5037EGPZ39/Structured

- N/A

Library/PreferencePanes/AkamaiNetSession.prefPane

- com.yourcompany.AkamaiNetSession

Library/PreferencePanes/AkamaiNetSession.prefPane/Contents/Resources

- com.yourcompany.${PRODUCT_NAME



Contents of /etc/hosts



127.0.0.1 localhost

255.255.255.255 broadcasthost

::1 localhost

fe80::1%lo0 localhost

127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 hl2rcv.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com



...and 29 more line(s)



Font issues: 45



DNS: 208.67.222.222 (static)



Hidden apps



.linkassistant/jxbrowser-chromium-31.0.1650.57.6/jxbrowser.app

.ranktracker/jxbrowser-chromium-31.0.1650.57.1/jxbrowser.app

.seospyglass/jxbrowser-chromium-31.0.1650.57.1/jxbrowser.app



Safari extensions



Firebug Lite for Safari



Widgets



iCal



Restricted files: 13



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