com.apple.geod process is not responding

Gotcha. I was able to replicate the issue on my iMac too, as well as figure out how to resolve it.

1. Go to the Notification Center, and remove "Weather" ("Today" doesn't affect this and still gives local weather).
2. Go to System Preferences/General and place a check in "Close windows when quitting an app".
3. Go to Activity Monitor, and terminate the process "com.apple.geod
4. Delete the following preference: "Macintosh HD/Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.GEOD"
5. Clear out the Saved Application State by deleting all files in "Macintosh HD/Users/~/Library/Save Application State/*.*
6. Reboot.

I have verified this with two separate user accounts on the same Mac. There is something wrong with both the "Weather" category in the Notification Center, as well as the application Maps. Other items that require Location Services do NOT have this issue. I even have a 3rd party app, Undercover Mac by Orbicule, that requests location data whenever OS X starts up, and it doesn't even cause this process to lock up. I can even see the icon for Location Services appear at the top of the screen, and it goes away just fine, haver never starting the "com.apple.geod" process.

Now, here is the downside. IF you ever open up an App that does in fact require this process, such as Maps, the whole entire problem starts over again, and you'll need to repeat steps 3-6 in order to get your Mac functioning properly again. If you skip any of the steps, OS X will just restart the process in it's last errored state, and you'll just keep running slow. I have 4GB of Memory, and had never noticed this process until it got to this point. So since Yosemite came out, it's been sitting there, and literally ate half of my memory, causing OS X to rely more on the swap file, bogging my HDD down, and killing performance. Especially during those hourly Time Machine backups.

If I were a betting man, I would stay that com.apple.geod is probably a process whose sole purpose is to provide a means to utilize some protocol for OS X to query near by iOS devices so that it can poll them for GPS data. Be it for Weather, Find My Mac via iCloud.com, or maps that transfers GPS data between the Mac and the iPhone/iPad. Anything else that merely uses a saved Zip Code for locations instead of GPS data (such as the Weather Widget) doesn't cause the problem at all.

Now I'm using a 20" 2007 iMac, Core2Duo 2.4gHz w/4GM Memory and a 7200 RPM HDD. Is anyone here that is having this issue on a newer i5 or i7 processor? I'm just wondering if this is a hardware incompatibility issue, or if newer units aren't seeing as large of an impact from this due to faster processors and storage capabilities.

I'm running an i7 processor so not hardware related. For me the good news is that "com.apple.geod not responding" does not appear to have any impact on my Mac. It will disappear on its own after a while. Even when it shows up it does not seem to impact my weather widget or maps app. or any thing else I can see. It only appears to use about 7MB of memory and about 700KB on the disk. So maybe I will just ignore it and see what happens.

For what it may be worth I did submit an official bug report here http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html and referenced this discussion.

I have this problem occurring on 2 different Macbook Pros and it sounds like many others probably do (and most might not even notice).

Kudos to kiem-time for the in-depth analysis of what is going on under the covers--I referenced your posts specifically in the bug report.

Maybe they'll actually put in an update to fix this some day. I imagine the more people who submit this bug the more likely they are to fix it.

Thanks for all your insightful posts and efforts to help each other.

Delete:

• /drive/users/user/library/preferences/com.apple.GEO.plist DONE
• /drive/users/user/library/caches/maps/*.*(anything there) No such folder, much less any files
• "GeoBookmarks.plist" (sorry - I can't remember where it was within my user folder/library files, and I don't want to put it back....do a search within your user library folder to find it) NO SUCH FILE
• "GeoHistory.mapsdata" (similar to GeoBookmarks.plist (it was in the same folder as that)) NO SUCH FILE

This bug was appearing since beta of 10.10 Yosemite, and we're about to see 10.10.2 but it's still not fixed.

I even tried clean install of 10.10.1, and disabled all location services, never even ran Maps, and it still shows up as Not Responding process.

If it doesn't cause any harm, then no problems, but it could cause some other problems, right?

As of now, my Download icon sometimes show something is downloading even though it has finished long time ago (using Safari).

Sometimes my keyboard backlight is completely disabled, and I can't turn it on even after sleep and resume.

Sometimes my laptop keyboard and touchpad is all dead, and this happens especially when I connect/disconnect Cinema Display's USB cable, which I have a Logitech Unifying receiver plugged in the Cinema Display's USB hub. Apple, go ahead blame Logitech for that. It sometimes fixes itself when I try connect and disconnect the USB cable in to the laptop, and sleep & resume sometimes helps too.

It's just not that stable as I thought it would be, and it's looking more like Windows now.

I have a rMBP13, haswell model.

*sigh* 😟

Despite my extensive troubleshooting, this clearly was operator error this time.

When I first migrated to Mavericks, my MATLAB did not function as Mathworks is often slow to update MATLAB for new Apple releases. As a workaround, you could fool MATLAB by modifying the SystemVersion.plist file in /System/Library/CoreServices. I did this, a while back, because I needed to use MATLAB, but turns out there were side effects to that modification.

I restored my original SystemVersion.plist file and now all is well again. Haven't tried MATLAB, but at least I know what the problem was.

Apparently, com.apple.geod must have been sending my system version up to the Apple file server, and because it was a bogus system version number, that's why my requests were being rejected.

Now back to see if MATLAB works with Yosemite.

If your keyboard & trackpad are not working, you've got issues completely unrelated to com.apple.geod. This is an issue with a process that is freezing, and has a massive memory leak that leads to the system running slow. It's probably just your Accessibilities are misconfigured to disable the Trackpad whenever it sees a mouse connected. Something that throws LOTS of people for a loop when they use wireless travel mice with the USB receiver plugged into a port. Which is EXACTLY what you're describing when you say you're using a Logitech Unifying Receiver.

It could also even be your Cinema display. I've dealt with a Thunderbolt display previously that would NOT chain as a second monitor, and would randomly disconnect USB peripherals connected to it that resulting in randomly corrupt external drives. For that, you need to either call AppleCare, or visit an Authorized Apple Service Provider for proper troubleshooting. In my case it turned out to be a defective Logic Board inside the display that had to be replaced to resolve the issue. And yes, I have also discovered a problem with FileVault 2 and the Thunderbolt Display randomly killing the USB Apple keyboard's connection upon startup, requiring the USB cable to be reseated to resolve. I've even seen SMC's loose their calibrations with bad batteries or power bumps that have resulted in Top Case issues too.

That like the other items you describe are entirely separate issues that are again unrelated. For all I know you may need to both clean up your downloads, as well as repair your ACLs via the resetpassword utility in Recovery Mode.

If you're that frustrated that you really want to go back to Windows, good luck with that. If I'm sick and I don't trust my doctor, I merely get a second opinion from another source who might actually know more and could thus provide a more viable solution. I do not simply loose my faith in medicine entirely. You've got problems, yes. But trust me, they're easily fixable. But this is for another thread.

Hello,

This does not impact your system too much. It is tied to Places on iPhoto. The process is reading files in Cache folders. If you delete Cached files at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Maps/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.Maps, you may clear up the problem.

Sorry, no dice.

I don't use iPhoto. Still have com.apple.geod freezing all the time.

"Download" icon still shows it's still downloading something once in a while and it gets stuck like that.

I formed a habit of completely shutting off the laptop instead of using a feature called stand-by.

You've the nail on the head. The apple.com.geod is used to poll the users iPhone for their location, which it does via Bluetooth. I had this problem on my iMac ever since upgrading to Yosemite, until i read your post, and turned on my iMac's Bluetooth as well as Bluetooth on my iPhone. Problem solved. I open Maps and had no problem, then opened up iPhoto and apple.com.geod was normal and responded perfectly. The Weather App also works perfectly with Bluetooth turned on. It looks to me like Yosemite is designed so that you'd need a Mac and an iPhone (at least) for the Mac to work properly, or you'd have to have GPS available for a Mac, as OS X 10.10 now works more like iOS 8.

Sorry, I meant "com.apple.geod" in the first line.

Also it seems that Apple's products are now being designed to work in concert with each other, not in isolation like it used to be when Snow Leopard was being used, and when the iWatch is released, this will be even more the case.

I have had the same issue in this discussion but only recently. All started when I disconnected my wired keyboard and mouse on my Mac Mini (2012) and connected Apple wireless Keyboard and Mouse, Bluetooth. Initially all was ok. I only noticed when the weather widget failed to update, the date heading in the notification centre also stopped showing current weather. Also no location icon in the menu bar.

I then tried maps and was unable to use the location button.

I followed the advice on com.apple.geo plist removal and initially all worked again, after a reboot, with the notification centre. I then opened maps and com.apple.geo stopped responding. This lead to complete failure again.

I have since tried repeating the various fixes with no success. I believe eripro67 is on the correct track with this. iPhone and MAC handoff is working perfectly, some bonus in all of this! However still no joy with location services on the MAC. I think we are nearly there people well at least on the right road. I am hoping the next OS X update will correct the issue for me though. 😕

I might also add that Maps and iPhoto's location services seem to only work when you are logged in as an Admin.. If you use a Standard User account, then you will still get problems with any service that uses location, and then com.apple.geod with go red once more and "not respond".

This did work for a time, then com.apple.geod went red once more. back to the drawing board!