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


whenever I open Activity Monitor in Yosemite release version, there are three services that are maked red as not responding. They are callservicesd, coreaudiod, and com.apple.geod, icloud helper, and identityservicesd. I have yosemite on my system. It has been upgraded from Mavericks 10.9.5


calling from Mac via iPhone to another phone work fine. I can also log in to iCloud from System Preferences and manage my account. No other malfunction seen other than these not responding services in Activity Monitor

What are they? And what go wrong?

I have just filed BR and this problem is also reported here http://www.drwingnut.info/?p=13805

Any comment and fis please

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 25, 2014 11:47 PM

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

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  • by Purd,

    Purd Purd Oct 26, 2014 2:46 AM in response to Purd
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    Oct 26, 2014 2:46 AM in response to Purd

    Any experts here experienced the same problem? Advice required please.

  • by arjay67,

    arjay67 arjay67 Oct 28, 2014 2:50 PM in response to Purd
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    Oct 28, 2014 2:50 PM in response to Purd

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

  • by VyacheslavD,

    VyacheslavD VyacheslavD Oct 29, 2014 1:17 AM in response to arjay67
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    Oct 29, 2014 1:17 AM in response to arjay67

    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.

  • by DanOsers,

    DanOsers DanOsers Oct 29, 2014 8:35 AM in response to Purd
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    Oct 29, 2014 8:35 AM in response to Purd

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

    Was a fresh install of 10.10 (not upgrade).

     

    Dan

  • by Mi_Lo,

    Mi_Lo Mi_Lo Oct 31, 2014 11:25 PM in response to DanOsers
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    Oct 31, 2014 11:25 PM in response to DanOsers

    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

  • by nisalm,

    nisalm nisalm Nov 1, 2014 12:51 AM in response to Purd
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    Nov 1, 2014 12:51 AM in response to Purd

    Hi guys,

     

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

     

    Hope this helps

  • by Mi_Lo,

    Mi_Lo Mi_Lo Nov 1, 2014 2:55 AM in response to nisalm
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    Nov 1, 2014 2:55 AM in response to nisalm

    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.

  • by nisalm,

    nisalm nisalm Nov 1, 2014 9:03 AM in response to Mi_Lo
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    Nov 1, 2014 9:03 AM in response to Mi_Lo

    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

  • by Mi_Lo,

    Mi_Lo Mi_Lo Nov 1, 2014 9:22 AM in response to nisalm
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    Nov 1, 2014 9:22 AM in response to nisalm

    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.

  • by nisalm,

    nisalm nisalm Nov 1, 2014 9:43 AM in response to Mi_Lo
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    Nov 1, 2014 9:43 AM in response to Mi_Lo

    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?

  • by cubelibre,

    cubelibre cubelibre Nov 4, 2014 3:26 AM in response to nisalm
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    Nov 4, 2014 3:26 AM in response to nisalm

    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?

  • by Mi_Lo,

    Mi_Lo Mi_Lo Nov 4, 2014 4:03 AM in response to cubelibre
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    Nov 4, 2014 4:03 AM in response to cubelibre

    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?

  • by nisalm,

    nisalm nisalm Nov 4, 2014 5:40 AM in response to cubelibre
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    Nov 4, 2014 5:40 AM in response to cubelibre

    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.

  • by casey-al,

    casey-al casey-al Nov 4, 2014 5:49 AM in response to Mi_Lo
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    Nov 4, 2014 5:49 AM in response to Mi_Lo

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

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