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

I made a clean install of Yosemite to MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011), and restored documents and apps from TM backup, no problems so far, but I observe following repeating messages in system log and it concerns me, because apparently, launchd is trying to do something related to spotlight, but fails and this happens every 10 seconds.. I see no suspicious activity apart from too much CPU time spent on mds and mds_stores (but I guess it's due to fresh install, hence Spotlight needs to index everything...).

Any ideas where to dig?

21/10/2557 BE 2:11:43.811 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.mdworker.bundles[2654]) Could not find uid associated with service: 0: Undefined error: 0 502

21/10/2557 BE 2:11:43.835 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.mdworker.bundles) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

21/10/2557 BE 2:11:53.838 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.mdworker.bundles[2655]) Could not find uid associated with service: 0: Undefined error: 0 502

21/10/2557 BE 2:11:53.838 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.mdworker.bundles) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

[goes forever]

Posted on Oct 21, 2014 12:44 AM

63 replies

Mar 25, 2015 5:58 PM in response to William Paplham

I have these same errors in my logs following mdworker [536] and mdworker [535]

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Apr 3, 2015 2:48 PM in response to Michelasso

Thanks for the hint; deleting (not chown’ing) 502-owned folders/files in the /var subdirectories definitively helped (after a reboot, of course). In addition I found a 502-owned app bundle in /Applications that I chown’ed to me (501).

Though, no idea what is spawning these 502 attributions. A user 502 didn’t exist on my system.

Apr 12, 2015 12:09 PM in response to cloudranger

Thanks for the UID advice. This has just fixed my issue with the new Photos.app where it was hanging indefinitely 5 seconds after launch. Problem solved. I wonder how many other issues it has solved.

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