Not responding processes in Actvity Monitor: callservicesd, coreaudiod, com.apple.geod, identityservicesd, and icloud helper

"com.apple.geod" is a location services process. If your wifi is off or disconnected you will see this.

Problem is that this process does not restore operation after disabling the Internet connection, and then again restore. The same was observed after waking the computer from sleep. Helps only restart your computer.

have the same issue - good not responding. Don't see any abnormal behavior though...

Was a fresh install of 10.10 (not upgrade).

Dan

I have the same issue: coreaudiod, callservicesd, identityservicesd not responding.

Indeed though, I have NOT observed any problems. They appear to run normally, CPU usage going up and down accordingly, Boom working fine, internet, cloud services, etc, etc.

Coreaudiod is a long time known issue

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Error_Message/en343713

and also type the type in the the Apple Community (many threads since 2008).

Tried killing the processes, restart, new user, clean install on another drive. For a little while (few minutes), everything was fine, no "not responding". And then they all came back.

It must be a bug of OSX (don't think it's just Yosemite, since coreaudiod is "for ever").

17" mid 2009 MBP

Hi guys,

Read this blog post. This is how I solved the issue. http://nisalm21.wordpress.com

Hope this helps 🙂

Thanks a lot nisalm.

Unfortunately, when I type "digicore.plugin (or any such combination) in the Spotlight, the only hit is the web page. I apparently don't have such a file in my drive.

Thanks again anyway.🙂

Hi Mi_Lo,

To be honest, I can't remember what the folder was exactly. Sorry about that.

Try this path : Macintosh HD > Library >Audio>Plug-ins>HAL

Let me know how it goes

Hi nisalm,

Looked where you said. No such file.

But since my system is not affected, I'll just leave things as they are.

I may try another clean install to see if things work out, but it takes time.

Thanks so much for your interest.

Take care.

Hi Mi_Lo,

No worries mate.

This might be a problem if you had Pro Tools installed in your Mac.

Are the services working properly in your Activity Monitor? Can you tell me exactly what's happening?

Hi all, same problem coreaudod callservicesd and identityservicesd not responding...I don't have pro tool or something like that installed, I have parallels but it works fine. Your tip doesn't works for me.... any suggestion?

Hi there,

I also do not have pro tools, but I also do not have parallels.

So, although activity monitor says that callservicesd, coreaudiod and identityservicesd are not responding (com.apple.geod and icloud helper are said to respond in my system), I have NOT noticed ANY abnormal behavior of my MBP. I therefore decided not to bother with this issue any more until Apple releases an update and/or somebody finds a solution (OK, I admit it's a bit irritating to me, but I can definitely live with it😁).

The only thing I always do is take regular time machine backups AND keep a bootable Carbon Copy Clone HDD, so that if my system HDD crashes, I simply change it (since I have a mid 2009 17" MBP, it takes me about 5 minutes to change it) or boot from it.

One last thing: Although I did a "small" clean install to an outside HDD (just OSX and some apps), that still had this issue, I may try a second full clean install (OSX and then check activity monitor, then app by app so that I may find which one causes all this, settings, etc from scratch). But since it takes a really very long time, I'm not so diligent! Have you tried such a clean install?

Hi,

Have you checked this path : "Macintosh HD > Library >Audio>Plug-ins>HAL"? Is the Digidesign CoreAudio.plugin absent? If so, then the problem can be due to something else.

Sorry about that.

com.apple.geod not reponding here too (since yosemite install)

This might be due to the WiFI issue with certain Macs. I think a fix is coming soon

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/11/03/first-yosemite-10-10-1-beta-now-available/