Spotlight on yosemite freezes/hangs

go to Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist and delete that. Then log out and back in or restart.

Did the suggested fix work for you?

I have attempted the following:

1. @skellaris's recommendation of deleting the file

2. repairing permissions

3. reset PRAM

4. reset SMC

5. reinstalling Yosemite

I'm still having the same exact problem. Does anyone else have a suggestion?

Hi!

I have the same symptoms on a same machine like qu1xs1lv3r's (MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)).

I installed Yosemite 3 months ago. After a while it started to hang until a 'sudo reboot' was issued. I thought it was because I copied several plist files (for example the login keychain) from Mavericks.

When this hanging is happening I can use several software like my Windows in VMWare Fusion or an already opened Terminal window. Skype is always giving me the beach ball. Sometimes this happens after right after boot, sometimes it takes like 1 or 2 hours to get this 'hanging'.

I reinstalled the whole system (of course formatted the drive before) with no success. After the foruth full install everything was okay for 2 months until yesterday when the problem came back.

I tried to find the answer in the system logs but of course that was pointless. I tried to fix the permissions, do the PRAM reset, verified the disk and cleared the kext cache - of course every tool said everything's fine.

I can attach the logs or sysdiagnose output if anyone from Apple is here to resolve the issue.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thank you!

Best wishes,

Viktor

And there is another strange behaviour: every time I reboot my computer a new Desktop will appear.

Actually it turned out that Safenet's (Aladdin) eTokon driver is buggy on Yosemite. I realised the hangs happened when the eToken was plugged in. I'm hang-less since last week. Although, it makes me worry that a single driver can cause the OS to behave like this.

I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009) 2,53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

I have had this same problem for a while now and I have tried everything suggested everywhere...

Finally I came accross: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6805051#27579211

Removing the files /var/db/CoreDuet/coreduetd.db*

coreduetd.db

coreduetd.db-shm

coreduetd.db-wal

and rebooting worked for me, I have tried everything else suggested everywhere but this actually worked.

Awesome bro, it worked fine !!! Keep on posting stuff like that.

Great Booru, that worked perfectly! Thanks