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Spotlight server is disabled on OS X 10.10

My Spotlight Server seems to be disabled. Trying any mdutil commands result in:

sudo mdutil -a -i off 2015-01-23 21:36:57.318 mdutil[65971:6745925] Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStorePaths failed: (268435459) (ipc/send) invalid destination port Spotlight server is disabled.

If I type:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist: Operation already in progress

If I type:

ls -l /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1619 23 Ott 08:07 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.index.plist -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1675 23 Ott 08:07 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 922 23 Ott 08:07 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.scan.plist -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 856 23 Ott 08:07 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.spindump.plist

If I type:

host:~ administrator$ sudo mdutil -i off / Password: 2015-01-23 21:14:58.916 mdutil[65243:6740017] Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStorePaths failed: (268435459) (ipc/send) invalid destination port Spotlight server is disabled. host:~ administrator$ sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight* Password: host:~ administrator$ sudo mdutil -i on / 2015-01-23 21:23:22.490 mdutil[65543:6742706] Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStorePaths failed: (268435459) (ipc/send) invalid destination port Spotlight server is disabled.

What can I do?

Mac mini, OS X Server

Posted on Jan 24, 2015 3:36 AM

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Posted on Jan 24, 2015 12:17 PM

What do you get from this:


sudo launchctl list | grep meta
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Jan 24, 2015 3:24 PM in response to cesare65

If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data, then reinstall the OS.* You don't need to erase the startup volume, and you won't need the backup unless something goes wrong. If the system was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you may need the Apple ID and password you used.

If you use FileVault 2, then before running the Installer you must launch Disk Utility and select the icon of the FileVault startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.) It will be nested below another icon with the same name. Click the Unlock button in the toolbar and enter your login password when prompted. Then quit Disk Utility to be returned to the main Recovery screen.

There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.

If you installed the Java runtime distributed by Apple and still need it, you'll have to reinstall it. The same goes for Xcode. All other data will be preserved.

*The linked support article refers to OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite"), but the procedure is the same for OS X 10.7 ("Lion") and later.

Jan 26, 2015 6:01 AM in response to Linc Davis

I have a mac mini server with os x 10.10.1 and server 4.0.3 installed with a clean installation.

I have a time machine backup.

The mac mini server, along with the server app with which I manage web services, mail, address book, calendar, sharing files, DHCP, DNS and FTP it has installed as well an accounting program: will the accounting app be kept after a reinstallation of the os?

I will reinstall the system on Friday night, thereby I will have weekend to fix the server if something goes wrong.

I'll keep you updated.

Thanks

Feb 6, 2015 7:19 PM in response to cesare65

1. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem. But with the aid of the test results, the solution may take a few minutes, instead of hours or days.

Don't be put off by the complexity of these instructions. The process is much less complicated than the description. You do harder tasks with the computer all the time.

2. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. Backup is always a must, and when you're having any kind of trouble with the computer, you may be at higher than usual risk of losing data, whether you follow these instructions or not.

There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.

3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. As I wrote above, it changes nothing. It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. If you prefer, you can act on it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else.

You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it.

In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. First, you can read it. Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does.

You may not be able to understand the script yourself. But variations of it have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message. See, for example, this discussion.

Nevertheless, if you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.

4. Here's a summary of what you need to do, if you choose to proceed:

☞ Copy a line of text in this window to the Clipboard.

☞ Paste into the window of another application.

☞ Wait for the test to run. It usually takes a few minutes.

☞ Paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page.

The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. You don't need to copy a second time. Details follow.

5. Try to test under conditions that reproduce the problem, as far as possible. For example, if the computer is sometimes, but not always, slow, run the test during a slowdown.

You may have started up in "safe" mode. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.

6. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. Don't log in as root.

7. The script is a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, though you may not see all of it in the browser window, and you can then copy it. If you try to select the line by dragging across the part you can see, you won't get all of it.

Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:

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-exec file {} +' kMDItemContentTypeTree=${k[21]}{bundle,mach-o-dylib} :Label "/p*/e*/{aut*,{cron,fs}tab,hosts,{[lp],sy}*.conf,mach_i*/*,pam.d/*,ssh{,d}_config,*.local} {/p*,/usr/local}/e*/periodic/*/* /L*/P*{,/*}/com.a*.{Bo,sec*.ap}*t {/S*/,/,}L*/{Lau,Sec}*/*t .launchd.conf" list '-F "" -k Sender hidd -k Nle 3' /Library/Preferences/${k[21]}alf\ globalstate --proxy '-n get default' -I --dns -get{dnsservers,info} -P -m\ / '' -n1 '-R -ce -l1 -n5 -o'{'prt -stats prt','mem -stats mem'}',command,uid' -kl -l -s\ / '--regexp --files '${k[21]}'pkg.*' '+c0 -i4TCP:0-1023' ${k[21]}dashboard\ layer-gadgets '-d /L*/Mana*/$USER' '-app Safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled' '-Fcu +c0 -l' -m 'L*/{Con*/*/Data/L*/,}Pref* -type f -size 0c -name *.plist.???????' kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level '3>&1 >&- 2>&3' '-F \$Message -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq "'{'n Cause: -','a underr|I/O e','USBF'}'"' -name\ kMDItem${k[16]} -T\ hfs '-n get default' -listnetworkserviceorder :${k[16]} :CFBundleDisplayName $EUID {,'/{S*/,}'}'L*/{,Co*/*/*/L*/}{Cache,Log}s $TMPDIR../C -type f -size +'${p[11]}'M -exec stat -f'%z:%N' {} \;' \ /v*/d*/*/*l*d{,.*.$UID}/* '-app Safari UserStyleSheetEnabled' );N1=${#c2[@]};for j in {0..15};do c2[N1+j]=SP${k[j]}DataType;done;l=({Restricted\ ,Lock,Pro}files POST Battery {Safari,App,{Bad,Loaded}\ kernel}\ extensions Heat System\ load boot\ args FileVault Diagnostic\ reports Log {Free\ space,Swap}' (MiB)' Activity SMC Login\ hook 'I/O per process' 'High file counts' UID Daemons Agents XPC\ cache Startup\ items {Admin,Root}\ access Bundles {,Inserted\ }dylibs Stylesheet Font\ issues Firewall Proxies DNS TCP/IP Wi-Fi 'Elapsed time (sec)' {Root,User}\ crontab {Global,User}' login items' Spotlight Memory\ pressure Listeners Widgets Parental\ Controls Prefetching Nets Volumes Bad\ plists {I/O,iCloud,HID,HCI}\ errors {User,System}\ {caches/logs,overrides} Shutdown\ codes );N3=${#l[@]};for i in {0..8};do l[N3+i]=${k[5+i]};done;F() { local x="${s[$1]}";[[ "$x" =~ ^([\&\|\<\>]|$) ]]&&{ printf "$x";return; };:|${c1[30]} "$x" 2>&-;printf "%s \'%s\'" "|${c1[30+$?]}" "$x";};A0() { Q=6;v[2]=1;id -G|grep -qw 80;v[1]=$?;((v[1]))||{ Q=7;sudo -v;v[2]=$?;((v[2]))||Q=8;};v[3]=`date +%s`;date '+Start time: %T %D%n';printf '\n[Process started]\n\n'>&4;printf 'Revision: %s\n\n' ${p[0]};};A1() { local c="${c1[$1]} ${c2[$2]}";shift 2;c="$c ` while [[ "$1" ]];do F $1;shift;done`";((P2))&&{ c="sudo $c";P2=;};v=`eval "$c"`;[[ "$v" ]];};A2() { local c="${c1[$1]}";[[ "$c" =~ ^(awk|sed ) ]]&&c="$c '${s[$2]}'"||c="$c ${c2[$2]}";shift 2;local d=` while [[ "$1" ]];do F $1;shift;done`;((P2))&&{ c="sudo $c";P2=;};local a;v=` while read a;do eval "$c '$a' $d";done<<<"$v";`;[[ "$v" ]];};A3(){ v=$((`date +%s`-v[3]));};B1() { v=No;! ((v[1]))&&{ v=;P1=1;};};eval "`type -a B1|sed '1d;s/1/2/'`";B3(){ v[$1]="$v";};B4() { local i=$1;local j=$2;shift 2;local c="cat` while [[ "$1" ]];do F $1;shift;done`";v[j]=`eval "{ $c;}"<<<"${v[i]}"`;};B5(){ v[$1]="${v[$1]}"$'\n'"${v[$2]}";};B6() { v=` paste -d: <(printf "${v[$1]}") <(printf "${v[$2]}")|awk -F: ' {printf("'"${f[$3]}"'",$1,$2)} ' `;};B7(){ v=`grep -Ev "${v[$1]}"<<<"$v"|sort`;};eval "`type -a B7|sed '1d;s/7/8/;s/Ev/E/'`";C0() { [[ "$v" ]]&&sed -E "$s"<<<"$v";};C1() { [[ "$v" ]]&&printf "${f[$1]}" "${l[$2]}" "$v"|sed -E "$s";};C2() { v=`echo $v`;[[ "$v" != 0 ]]&&C1 0 $1;};C3() { B4 0 0 63&&C1 1 $1;};C4() { echo $'\t'"Part $((++P)) of $Q done at $((`date +%s`-v[3])) sec">&4;};C5() { sudo -k;pbcopy<<<"$o";printf '\n\tThe test results are on the Clipboard.\n\n\tPlease close this window.\n';exit 2>&-;};for i in 1 2;do eval D${i}0'(){ A'$i' $@;C0;};';for j in 2 3;do eval D$i$j'(){ x=$1;shift;A'$i' $@;C'$j' $x;};';done;done;trap C5 2;o=$({ A0;D10 0 N1+1 2;D10 0 $N1 1;B1;C2 27;B1&&! B2&&C2 28;D12 22 15 63;D10 0 N1+2 3;D10 0 N1+15 17;D13 3 0 N1+3 4;D13 4 0 N1+4 5;D13 N3+4 0 N1+9 59;for i in 0 1 2;do D13 N3+i 0 N1+5+i 6;done;D13 N3+3 0 N1+8 71;D13 9 1 10 7;D13 10 1 11 8;B2&&D13 18 19 53 67;D12 11 2 12 9;D12 12 3 13 10;D12 15 6 36 13;D12 45 20 52 66;D12 16 7 37 14;D13 17 8 15 38;D10 9 16 16 77 45;C4;B2&&D10 35 49 61 75 76 78 45;B2&&{ D10 28 17 45;C4;};D10 12 40 54 16 79 45;D10 12 39 54 16 80 45;D13 31 25 37 15;B2&&D13 19 21 0;B2&&D13 40 10 42;B2&&D12 2 29 35 46;D12 44 34 43 53;D12 25 22 20 32;D12 33 0 N1+14 51;D12 34 21 28 35;D13 35 27 29 36;A1 40 59 81;B3 18;A1 33 60 82;B8 18;B4 0 19 83;A1 27 32 39&&{ B3 20;B4 19 0;A2 33 33 40;B3 21;B6 20 21 3;};C2 36;D13 50 38 5 68;B4 19 0;D23 37 33 34 42;B2&&D13 46 35 45 55;D13 38 32 31 43;B2&&D13 59 4 65 76 91;D13 13 4 19 44 75 95 96;B1&&{ D13 53 5 55 75 69&&D13 51 6 58 31;D13 56 5 56 97 75 98&&D10 0 N1+7 99;D12 55 5 27 84; D13 61 5 54 75 70;D13 14 5 14 12;C4;};A1 13 44 74 18;C4;B3 4;B4 4 0 85;A2 14 61 89;B4 0 5 19;A1 17 41 20;B7 5;C3 8;B4 4 0 88;A2 14 24 89;C4;B4 0 6 19;B4 4 0 86;A2 14 61 89;B5 6 0;B4 6 6 73;B2&&{ A1 18 26 94;B7 6;B4 0 0 11;C3 23;};A1 18 26 94;B7 6;B4 0 0 11;C3 24;D13 60 14 66 92;D13 58 14 67 93;D13 26 4 21 24;D13 42 14 1 62;D13 43 37 2 90 48;D13 41 10 42;D12 48 36 47 25;A1 4 3 60&&{ B3 5;A2 14 61;B4 0 6 21;B4 5 0;A2 14 62;B4 0 0 21;B6 0 6 4;C3 5;};D12 32 21 68 35;D12 49 21 48 49;B4 4 22 57;A1 21 46 56;B7 22;B4 0 0 58;C3 47;D13 54 5 7 75 69;D13 57 4 64 76 91;D12 0 4 4 84;D12 1 4 51 84;D13 21 22 9 37;A1 23 18 28 89;B4 0 16 22;A1 16 25 33;B7 16;B4 0 0 34;D20 31 47;D13 52 4 8 41;C4;B4 4 12 26 89 23;for i in {0..3};do A1 0 N1+10+i 72;B7 12;B4 0 0 52;C3 N3+5+i;((i))||C4;done;A1 24 22 29;B7 12;B3 14;A2 39 57 30;B3 15;B6 14 15 4;C3 29;B4 4 13 27 89 65;A1 24 23;B7 13;C3 30;B4 4 0 87;A2 14 61 89 20;B4 0 16;A1 26 50 64;B7 16;C3 6;D13 7 11 6;A3; C2 39;C4;} 4>&2 2>/dev/null;);C5

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.

8. Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

Click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste by pressing command-V. The text you pasted should vanish immediately. If it doesn't, press the return key.

9. If you see an error message in the Terminal window such as "Syntax error" or "Event not found," enter

exec bash

and press return. Then paste the script again.

10. If you're logged in as an administrator, you'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You will not see the usual dots in place of typed characters. Make sure caps lock is off. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you make three failed attempts to enter the password, the test will run anyway, but it will produce less information. In most cases, the difference is not important. If you don't know the password, or if you prefer not to enter it, just press return three times at the password prompt. Again, the script will still run.

If you're not logged in as an administrator, you won't be prompted for a password. The test will still run. It just won't do anything that requires administrator privileges.

11. The test may take a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. A computer that's abnormally slow may take longer to run the test. While it's running, a series of lines will appear in the Terminal window like this:

[Process started]

Part 1 of 8 done at … sec

Part 8 of 8 done at … sec

The results are on the Clipboard.

Please close this window.

[Process completed]

The intervals between parts won't be exactly equal, but they give a rough indication of progress. The total number of parts may be different from what's shown here.

Wait for the final message "Process completed" to appear. If you don't see it within about ten minutes, the test probably won't complete in a reasonable time. In that case, press the key combination control-C or command-period to stop it. Then go to the next step.

12. When the test is complete, or if you stopped it because it was taking too long, quit Terminal. The results will have been copied to the Clipboard automatically. They are not shown in the Terminal window. Please don't copy anything from there. All you have to do is start a reply to this comment and then paste by pressing command-V again.

At the top of the results, there will be a line that begins with the words "Start time." If you don't see that, but instead see a mass of gibberish, you didn't wait for the "Process completed" message to appear in the Terminal window. Please wait for it and try again.

If any private information, such as your name or email address, appears in the results, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.

13. When you post the results, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "You are not authorized to post." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the test results on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.

14. This is a public forum, and others may give you advice based on the results of the test. They speak only for themselves, and I may not agree with them.

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Copyright © 2014, 2015 by Linc Davis. As the sole author of this work, I reserve all rights to it except as provided in the Use Agreement for the Apple Support Communities website ("ASC"). Readers of ASC may copy it for their own personal use. Neither the whole nor any part may be redistributed.

Feb 7, 2015 6:42 AM in response to Linc Davis

Start time: 15:32:16 02/07/15 Revision: 1207 Model Identifier: Macmini6,2 System Version: OS X 10.10.2 (14C109) Kernel Version: Darwin 14.1.0 Time since boot: 1 day19:34 UID: 501 USB Hub (NEC Corporation) I/O wait time (us/s) coresymbolicati (UID 0): 4261 Terminal (UID 501): 2265 I/O requests (KiB/s) coresymbolicati (UID 0): 22820 kernel_task (UID 0): 11186 System errors (per sec) lsof (UID 93, error 9): 1199 lsof (UID 94, error 9): 255 servermgrd (UID 0, error 9): 254 Spotlight: Spotlight server is disabled DNS: 127.0.0.1 (static) Listeners AppleFileServer: afpovertcp PasswordService: 3com-tsmux dovecotd: imap dovecotd: imaps dovecotd: pop3 dovecotd: pop3s httpd: http httpd: https imap-login: imap imap-login: imaps kadmind: kerberos-adm kdc: kerberos kpasswdd: kpasswd launchd: afpovertcp launchd: asip-webadmin launchd: dec_dlm launchd: microsoft-ds launchd: ssh master: smtp master: submission named: domain servermgr-liste: asip-webadmin slapd: ldap slapd: ldaps Log Feb 7 08:06:08 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 08:16:46 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 09:02:38 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 09:05:10 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 09:21:49 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 09:41:57 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 09:55:01 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 10:05:41 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 10:13:42 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 10:16:36 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 10:17:34 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 10:19:30 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 10:28:42 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 11:38:01 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 11:55:23 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 11:56:51 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 12:21:33 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 13:09:11 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 13:14:43 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 13:29:56 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 13:41:36 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 14:32:25 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 14:47:58 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 15:08:38 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Feb 7 15:29:27 org.dovecot.fts.update: Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Daemons com.apple.installer.osmessagetracing com.apple.serverd com.apple.servermgrd.accounts com.apple.servermgrd.addressbook com.apple.servermgrd.afp com.apple.servermgrd.alerts com.apple.servermgrd.bonjour com.apple.servermgrd.caching com.apple.servermgrd.calendar com.apple.servermgrd.certs com.apple.servermgrd.collabd com.apple.servermgrd.config com.apple.servermgrd.devicemgr com.apple.servermgrd.dhcp com.apple.servermgrd.dirserv com.apple.servermgrd.dns com.apple.servermgrd.filebrowser com.apple.servermgrd.firewall com.apple.servermgrd.ftp com.apple.servermgrd.history com.apple.servermgrd.info com.apple.servermgrd.jabber com.apple.servermgrd.mail com.apple.servermgrd.netboot com.apple.servermgrd.network com.apple.servermgrd.nfs com.apple.servermgrd.radius com.apple.servermgrd.san com.apple.servermgrd.sharing com.apple.servermgrd.signaler com.apple.servermgrd.smb com.apple.servermgrd.status com.apple.servermgrd.swupdate com.apple.servermgrd.timemachine com.apple.servermgrd.vpn com.apple.servermgrd.web com.apple.servermgrd.wiki com.apple.servermgrd.xcode com.sqlabs.cubesql org.dovecot.fts.update - status: 1 Agents com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent - status: -9 com.apple.serveralertproxy User login items iTunesHelper - /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app Dropbox - /Applications/Dropbox.app iCloud errors bird: 37 cloudd: 4 Restricted files: 29 Lockfiles: 1 Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.serverd.plist - mod date: Feb 5 20:01:07 2015 - checksum: 77112498


Label com.apple.serverd MachServices com.apple.serverd OnDemand Program /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd ProgramArguments /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd Contents of /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.sqlabs.cubesql.plist - mod date: Oct 17 16:36:35 2014 - checksum: 118645145


Label com.sqlabs.cubesql ProgramArguments /usr/local/bin/cubesql KeepAlive StandardOutPath /var/log/cubesql.log StandardErrorPath /var/log/cubesql.log Contents of /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.PasswordService.plist - mod date: Feb 5 19:49:21 2015 - checksum: 1807122647


Disabled EnableTransactions KeepAlive PathState /private/var/run/com.apple.slapd.start Label com.apple.PasswordService ProgramArguments /usr/sbin/PasswordService -n ServiceIPC ...and 2 more line(s) Contents of /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist - mod date: Feb 5 20:01:37 2015 - checksum: 3972992876


Disabled EnvironmentVariables SERVER_INSTALL_PATH_PREFIX /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot XPC_SERVICES_UNAVAILABLE 1 Label org.apache.httpd OnDemand ProgramArguments /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -D WEBSERVICE_ON -f ...and 4 more line(s) Contents of /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.openldap.slapd.plist - mod date: Feb 5 19:49:21 2015 - checksum: 308392300


Disabled ExitTimeOut 60 HardResourceLimits NumberOfFiles 8192 KeepAlive PathState /Library/Preferences/com.apple.openldap.plist Label org.openldap.slapd Program /usr/libexec/slapd ...and 19 more line(s) Contents of /System/Library/Security/authorization.plist - mod date: Jan 8 04:31:13 2015 - checksum: 2720110640


comment The name of the requested right is matched against the keys. An exact match has priority, otherwise the longest match from the start is used. Note that the right will only match wildcard rules (ending in a ".") during this reduction. allow rule: this is always allowed <key>com.apple.TestApp.benign</key> <string>allow</string> deny rule: this is always denied <key>com.apple.TestApp.dangerous</key> <string>deny</string> user rule: successful authentication as a user in the specified group(5) allows the associated right. The shared property specifies whether a credential generated on success is shared with other apps (i.e., those in the same "session"). This property defaults to false if not specified. The timeout property specifies the maximum age of a (cached/shared) credential accepted for this rule. The allow-root property specifies whether a right should be allowed automatically if the requesting process is running with uid == 0. This defaults to false if not specified. See remaining rules for examples. rights class rule comment ...and 1850 more line(s) Contents of /private/etc/pf.conf - mod date: Feb 5 20:01:12 2015 - checksum: 3892002696 scrub-anchor "com.apple/*" nat-anchor "com.apple/*" rdr-anchor "com.apple/*" dummynet-anchor "com.apple/*" anchor "com.apple/*" load anchor "com.apple" from "/etc/pf.anchors/com.apple" anchor "com.apple.server-firewall/*" load anchor "com.apple.server-firewall" from "/etc/pf.anchors/com.apple.server-firewall" Contents of /private/etc/ssh_config - mod date: Dec 7 18:49:52 2014 - checksum: 1744278567 Host * SendEnv LANG LC_* GSSAPIAuthentication yes GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no GSSAPIKeyExchange no GSSAPITrustDNS no Contents of /private/etc/syslog.conf - mod date: Feb 5 20:01:15 2015 - checksum: 1228219335 install.* @127.0.0.1:32376 LOCAL4.*;LOCAL4.debug /var/log/slapd.log auth.* @127.0.0.1:60762 Contents of Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.serveralertproxy.plist - mod date: Feb 6 18:40:38 2015 - checksum: 2370036484


MachServices com.apple.server.alerts.xpc com.apple.server.aps LaunchEvents com.apple.usernotificationcenter.matching alertproxy bundleid com.apple.Server.v4 events didDeliverNotification didActivateNotification ...and 14 more line(s) Bad plists /Library/Preferences/ApplePushServiceProvider/com.apple.apspd.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.openldap.plist Bundles - N/A App extensions com.getdropbox.dropbox.garcon Elapsed time (sec): 237

Feb 7, 2015 1:46 PM in response to cesare65

Back up all data before proceeding.

Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:

/.Spotlight-V100

Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select

Services Open

from the contextual menu. A folder should open with a subfolder named ".Spotlight-V100" selected. Move the subfolder to the Trash. You may be prompted for your administrator login password. Restart the computer. If you try to search now from the magnifying-glass icon in the top right corner of the display, there should be an indication that indexing is in progress.

You can't see the folder in the Trash because it's invisible. The next time you empty the Trash, it should be deleted.

Spotlight server is disabled on OS X 10.10

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