Tom Sullivan
Level 1
(94 points)
Q: What is the "lsd" process and why does it keep dying and restarting
I've got a process called "lsd" on my Mac that is running between 20% and 90% on cpu usage. It runs for a few seconds, dies, and restarts. The crash log seems to indicate a kernel protection issue.
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000700000096000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
What is this process? Should it be there, and if so, how does one fix it to stop crashing. If it shouldn't be there how did it get there and how do you get rid of it.
I just did a new install from the recovery disk of El Capitan and I've run ClamXV with in the last few weeks.
Thanks.
etresoft
Level 7
(29,101 points)
Hello Tom,
Try to reset your launch services database. Judging from your output from Linc's scripts, you seem to be a developer or at least pretty handy in UNIX. Here is the command. I also happen to have a downloadable AppleScript if you want that.
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
