com.apple.xpc.launchd & com.apple.mdworker.bundles pollute logs with errors

In the absence of any further contributions to this thread, I finally got round to following cloudranger's detailed instructions this morning and as far as I can tell it's worked. I'm certainly not getting those two lines repeated every 10 seconds in the Console (though there's plenty of other rubbish). That said, I had to delay matters because the drive that hosts my nightly SuperDuper! backup failed just at the crucial moment. So I bought a new drive and made absolutely sure I had a full, bootable backup before proceeding.

As far as my final paragraph in the previous post is concerned I ended up doing the following: having backed up (which took almost 24 hours to copy c.1.5TB of files!) and restarted I unmounted both my SuperDuper! drive and my Time Machine drive before following cloudranger's procedure. I then did a further SuperDuper! smart update - which was very quick - and this changed the ownership of al the necessary files on the backup. As for Time Machine, I'm working on the basis that the changes will gradually work their way through and that I won't have to access any of the files concerned in the meantime. I'm taking the same approach to my CrashPlan cloud backup. If I ever have to restore from that, I can always follow the procedure again - it really did’t take long.

So thank you, cloudranger - and others - for your valuable advice. Not that I've noticed ay particular improvement in my Mac's performance so far...

Hi

I see you have already solved your issue, but here is an answer to your question as to how to exclude time machine in the find command just for completeness and in case anyone else needs it...

In the finder find the name of the disk being used for time machine in the side bar (mine is called TimeMachine)

In the terminal type: df

You should see an entry ending with something like /Volumes/TimeMachine (or whatever name you gave it)

You can then exclude that disk from the find command like this (replacing the path with whatever path you have):

sudo find / ! -path "/Volumes/TimeMachine/*" -uid 501 -exec chown -h 503:20 {} \; -print

The case is sensitive in the path string normally (the default in mac is to create a case sensitive file system) and you need to make sure you add the asterisk so that it excludes all files.

Merry Christmas!

Brilliant - thank you very much.

And a merry Christmas to you too!

latecomer to this thread... but I've been chasing down strange random Finder / login window crashes ever since upgrading my iMac to Yosemite (basically, using Fast User Switching to leave my userid active and applications running sometimes randomly quits all my apps and dumps out to the login window as if I actually logged out...). While looking through console logs trying to find the trigger point of my problem, I noticed tons of these com.apple.mdworker.bundles messages

using the find command as mentioned in this thread, I notice that ALL the offending files are related to Adobe software updates (not sure if that's a significant clue to the origin of the problem)

anyhow following the excellent instructions by cloudranger (thanks!) I managed to rid my Mac of these particular console messages. No idea if this has any relation to the problem I was originally debugging, but at least I can now more easily look through the console logs without all the extra mdworker warnings.

To add to the notes here. My experience:

1. Deleting the containing folder in private/var/folders/zz worked for me to eliminate extra UID 502. (In my case, I'm 501.)

2. Deleting the folder for UID 505 did not work. In fact, I think something created UID 505 after I deleted 502 but I can't remember. It looked like deleting worked but the folder appeared as soon as Spotlight made its calls.

3. I decided to get into the actual Info for the appropriate folder and the subfolders. You can see the issue right there: it says "fetching" under Sharing & Permissions and of course it never fetches because there is no such UID. Pretty bleeping obvious when you see it. Why it's there is a separate matter.

4. Changing ownership didn't work. I used chown but that didn't take so I went into Get Info and added myself as owner and deleted "fetching". As soon as Spotlight made its calls, "fetching" appeared. Note that I restarted after every one of these changes.

5. I decided to create a second user. Control-clicked on the name, clicked on the advance settings pop up and changed the UID from 502 to 505. Restarted yet again.

6. So far, when I check the actual Info for each folder, they all list (under Sharing & Permissions of course) me and my new user.

So my comment in the end is that something is spawning this need for another UID. It may be that sometimes that goes away, like maybe if you are already UID 502 instead of 501 and you delete 503 or 501 or something, but it seems persistent in the case where you are UID 501 until a new UID that fits the request is created. I will post a reply if this doesn't hold.

BTW, if you want to find the folder quickly, it's the zz folder whose name is all 0's. Look through all the levels inside: there's a folder named 0 and inside that is com.apple.spotlight and inside that are folders for each UID. You can unlock the folders by authenticating in the Get Info window for each. This might be easier for people unused to Terminal commands.

My guess is this problem is many more people would find this if they ever checked their Console.

As an update, when I created the second user, apparently that spawned a permanent UID 502 even though I changed it to 505 right after creation and before restarting. I added a third user, which immediately took UID 502, and that is now reflected in the Info panel Sharing & Permissions. The system did that on its own, as it should, so I'm hoping the "fix" lasts.

Thanks! This was super helpful for me. I recently installed a second drive in my MBP (OWC Data Doubler with an SSD) and wanted to leave my data on the HDD. This required logging in as a different admin user. This set a bunch of stuff to this other account's uid. While the process is somewhat lengthy (300K+ files were owned by the "wrong" uid), I seem to have come out to the other side fine.

Thank you! Just wanted to report that these instructions corrected the issue on my MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.1

For what it's worth, I too had this error with user id 1104188992. Searching /Library and /Applications yielded /Applications/Amazon MP3 Downloader.app being the culprit. Not sure how that happened, as I had installed this as myself.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread.

In my case, using the terminal commands suggested, I discovered that all the "misowned" files were in one specific Application Support folder.

Adding the folder to the Privacy list in the Spotlight Preferences seems to have quickly solved the issue for me...so far.

Thanks

Thanks Cloudranger et al

I eventually got my issue sorted with these instructions and a bit of fiddling. I put it down to having deleted a couple of old user accounts recently but it may have predated that as my own guid is now 509 and there's only ever been seven accounts at maximum. I had three rogue accounts that were tripping up Spotlight including 1422 (from memory)—root. There were a number of apps that I had installed from a different user account and some installed by another user. Most of these were redundant and I deleted the whole app. Some I changed the permissions via Finder and some I used Terminal to change the owner. Somewhere along the line I messed something up and Console was reporting all sorts of errors. My Time Capsule also stopped working and I couldn't even connect to it.

I performed a reinstall as described (four hours+) and had to manually connect to the house wifi (hidden network) once it restarted. I have now connected to the Time Capsule by ethernet as it was refusing to recognise it over the wifi (despite it being the source of the wifi connection) and hopefully will be able to re-establish the backing up.

Here's hoping for a smoother running experience!

I just wanted to thank you guys for working through all this stuff. I had the exact same problem and have fixed the multiple user accounts on my mid 2012 mbp. My machine started randomly shutting off last week or maybe the week before (like someone is turning off a light switch) and in researching the problem came across this as one of the possible causes of the issue so I will definitely keep you informed on the progress.

Worked perfect for me, exact same file name. This problem appeared when I transferred some iMessages from an older computer to my newer computer, and then Messages.app wouldn't start saying this error message: "The Messages database is being upgraded, please wait while it finishes or Quit Messages and relaunch it later." but it never finished or worked, and the Console message was "com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.mdworker.bundles) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds." Since mdworker is related to Spotlight Indexing, and xpc is related to application integration, I assumed that Messages.app was trying to reindex my transferred iMessages and somehow couldn't do this because it failed. By eliminating /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000 and rebooting the Console messages disappeared, and voilá, Messages works again with all the transferred messages in place, so this solution killed two birds with one stone, and so far has no downside, knock on wood. THANKS!

Wanted to add my thanks for this thread. Very informative and CloudRanger's and others' suggestions worked to fix my respawn -- 50x UID problems. I have had some significant crashing issues since moving to 10.0.2, which I am not sure are fully resolved, but I think we are well on the way. Of note, this is not a clean install, but an initial migration from my old iMac 2008 24"...... with an upgrade to Yosemite with 10.10.2 update.

However, I still have frequent log entries like this:

3/8/15 1:49:00.800 PM mdworker[1195]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:00.802 PM mdworker[1195]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:00.805 PM mdworker[1195]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:00.904 PM mdworker[1196]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:00.906 PM mdworker[1196]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:00.908 PM mdworker[1196]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:01.007 PM mdworker[1195]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:01.009 PM mdworker[1195]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:01.018 PM mdworker[1196]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:01.021 PM mdworker[1196]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:01.296 PM mdworker[1197]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:01.298 PM mdworker[1197]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:01.301 PM mdworker[1197]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:01.304 PM mdworker[1197]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

3/8/15 1:49:01.306 PM mdworker[1197]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)"

and here is EtreCheck:

EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)

Report generated March 8, 2015 at 2:03:38 PM EDT

Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck

Click the [Click for support] links for help with non-Apple products.

Click the [Click for details] links for more information about that line.

Hardware Information: ℹ️

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) (Technical Specifications)

iMac - model: iMac14,2

1 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core

16 GB RAM Upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 0/DIMM1

Empty

BANK 1/DIMM1

Empty

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

Video Information: ℹ️

NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M - VRAM: 1024 MB

iMac 2560 x 1440

System Software: ℹ️

OS X 10.10.2 (14C109) - Time since boot: 0:51:17

Disk Information: ℹ️

APPLE SSD SD0128F disk0 : (121.33 GB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Boot OS X (disk0s3) <not mounted> : 134 MB

Macintosh HD (disk2) / : 1.11 TB (537.41 GB free)

Core Storage: disk0s2 120.99 GB Online

Core Storage: disk1s2 999.34 GB Online

APPLE HDD ST1000DM003 disk1 : (1 TB)

EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Recovery HD (disk1s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

Macintosh HD (disk2) / : 1.11 TB (537.41 GB free)

Core Storage: disk0s2 120.99 GB Online

Core Storage: disk1s2 999.34 GB Online

USB Information: ℹ️

ASMedia AS2105 1 TB

EFI (disk3s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Daily Backup (disk3s2) /Volumes/Daily Backup : 999.86 GB (434.06 GB free)

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub

Logitech USB Trackball

USB Mass Storage Device 1.84 GB

Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard

Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Gatekeeper: ℹ️

Anywhere

Kernel Extensions: ℹ️

/System/Library/Extensions

[loaded] com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.5.3 - SDK 10.6) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.Ralink.driver.RT2860WirelessDriver (1.0.0) [Click for support]

[loaded] com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice (1.1 - SDK 10.1) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.perceptiveautomation.indigo_overrides.kext (1.0.0d1) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.rogueamoeba.InstantOn (6.0.1 - SDK 10.6) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.roxio.BluRaySupport (1.1.6) [Click for support]

/System/Library/Extensions/InstantOn.kext/Contents/PlugIns

[not loaded] com.rogueamoeba.InstantOnCore (6.0.1 - SDK 10.6) [Click for support]

---ignore these, I suppose, as they are on my external disk. Although I don't know why Etrecheck would read them.....

/Volumes/Daily Backup/Applications/TechTool Pro 7.app

[not loaded] com.micromat.driver.spdKernel (1 - SDK 10.8) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.micromat.driver.spdKernel-10-8 (1 - SDK 10.8) [Click for support]

/Volumes/Daily Backup/Applications/Toast 11 Titanium/Spin Doctor.app

[not loaded] com.hzsystems.terminus.driver (4) [Click for support]

/Volumes/Daily Backup/Applications/Utilities/DiskWarrior.app

[not loaded] com.alsoft.Preview (4.4) [Click for support]

/Volumes/Daily Backup/Applications/VMware Fusion.app

[not loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmci (90.4.19) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmioplug.10.1.26 (10.1.26) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmnet (0143.58.62) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.vmware.kext.vmx86 (0143.58.62) [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.vmware.kext.vsockets (90.4.24) [Click for support]

/Volumes/Daily Backup/Users/[redacted]/Library/Services/ToastIt.service/Contents/MacOS

[not loaded] com.roxio.TDIXController (2.0) [Click for support]

Launch Agents: ℹ️

[unknown] afraid.org.freedns.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.bjango.istatmenusagent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.micromat.TechToolProAgent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist [Click for support]

Launch Daemons: ℹ️

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.adobe.versioncueCS3.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.bjango.istatmenusdaemon.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.bresink.system.privilegedhelper-tts.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.crashplan.engine.plist [Click for support]

[unknown] com.crashplan.engine.plist.save [Click for support]

[running] com.crashplan.engine.plist~ [Click for support]

[running] com.micromat.TechToolProDaemon.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist [Click for support]

[failed] com.rogueamoeba.hermes.plist [Click for support] [Click for details]

[not loaded] com.slinkware.slinkDaemon.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.teamviewer.Helper.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.timesoftware.timemachineeditor.backup-auto.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.timesoftware.timemachineeditor.helper.plist [Click for support]

User Launch Agents: ℹ️

[running] com.ecamm.printopia.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.macupdate.desktop5.scanner.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.shirtpocket.backupbytime.plist [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper [Click for support]

User Login Items: ℹ️

iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

System Events Application Hidden (/System/Library/CoreServices/System Events.app)

AirPort Base Station Agent Application Hidden (/System/Library/CoreServices/AirPort Base Station Agent.app)

Airfoil Application (/Applications/Airfoil.app)

Mail Application (/Applications/Mail.app)

VMware Fusion Start Menu Application (/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware Fusion Start Menu.app)

Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

AppTrap Application (/Library/PreferencePanes/AppTrap.prefPane/Contents/Resources/AppTrap.app)

DelayedLauncher Application (/Users/[redacted]/Downloads/DelayedLauncher.app)

timemachinevideooffice UNKNOWN (missing value)

CrashPlan menu bar Application (/Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/Helpers/CrashPlan menu bar.app)

TeamViewer Application (/Applications/TeamViewer.app)

homes UNKNOWN (missing value)

Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.1 [Click for support]

Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.3.8.1 [Click for support]

Musicnotes: Version: 1.17.0 [Click for support]

RealPlayer Plugin: Version: Unknown

PDF Browser Plugin: Version: 2.2.3 [Click for support]

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 1.3 [Click for support]

Silverlight: Version: 4.0.51204.0 [Click for support]

Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8

CitrixICAClientPlugIn: Version: 11.2.0 [Click for support]

PDEPrint: Version: 2.0 [Click for support]

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.8 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

GoogleOneClickPlugin: Version: Unknown

ContentUploaderPlugin: Version: 1.2 [Click for support]

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 8 Update 31 Check version

User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

WebEx: Version: 1.0 [Click for support]

Safari Extensions: ℹ️

AdBlock

ClickToFlash

Franker

3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

Adobe Version Cue CS3 [Click for support]

AppTrap [Click for support]

Citrix Online Plug-in [Click for support]

Flash Player [Click for support]

hueyPRO [Click for support]

Java [Click for support]

Printopia [Click for support]

TechTool Protection [Click for support]

Time Machine: ℹ️

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

6% WindowServer

3% CrashPlanService

1% Safari

1% AppleSpell

0% fontd

Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

653 MB mds_stores

258 MB Mail

189 MB CrashPlanService

155 MB Finder

155 MB WindowServer

Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

10.71 GB Free RAM

4.16 GB Active RAM

857 MB Inactive RAM

1.46 GB Wired RAM

1.88 GB Page-ins

0 B Page-outs

Diagnostics Information: ℹ️

Mar 8, 2015, 01:10:31 PM Self test - passed

Mar 8, 2015, 08:54:25 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.bresink.system.privilegedhelper-tts_2015-03 -08-085425_[redacted].cpu_resource.diag [Click for details]

Mar 7, 2015, 04:11:31 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Dropbox109_2015-03-07-161131_[redacted].cpu_res ource.diag [Click for details]

Mar 6, 2015, 06:28:54 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/WindowServer_2015-03-06-182854_[redacted].cpu_r esource.diag [Click for details]

I have searched high and low and still don't understand what these are or why they keep coming up. I have a 2013 27" i5 Mac, with Synology NAS attached via ethernet, as well as two external USB drives which I use for backup. I've run Disk Utility from the Recovery Disk, TinkerTool System 4 to clear caches and DiskWarrior 4.4, which reports a clean directory. Any thoughts as to how to correct these would be appreciated.

I had the same issue also with Amazon MP3 downloader. The other culprit was MS Office 2008.

Thank you for your courage!