Constant Crash Logs and unusual spotlight behavior???

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Constant Crash Logs and unusual spotlight behavior???

Mac Book Pro (early 2011) 17" quad i7-16GRAM / 500Gb Crucial SSD MX200

Hi,

I am getting constant crash messages in my console. There has been unusual spotlight behavior as well.

It all began with a lagging index and delay of backup with error message reading "could not complete backup, please try again later"

Spotlight was indexing for extended periods of time. Research presented possible solutions so I tried these-

1.(obvious) adding hd/externals to privacy list then removing to reindex....nope.

2. disabling indexing with terminal commands and re-enabling....nope.

3. found 10.7.5 supplemental update with fix for extended spotlight or time machine activity,

then disabled spotlight,

ran disk utility for repair permissions,

allowed my backup to run and assumed all was well. I thought I re enabled spotlight and the problem was solved but apparently my console suggested spotlight was disabled so I re-enabled indexing and have had some issues backing up again...(keep going)

During my troubleshooting, I consulted a friend who looked at my console. He mentioned disk i/o errors and that i may need to replace my hard drive soon- I was considering the ssd upgrade anyway- so I did the install and upgraded RAM.

Now my attention is directed to my console messages.

I am receiving crash reports by the minute or more. mdsworker showing an invalid address (???-???) ???. I dont have much knowledge in regards to the console and how to read the messages but i do recognize the word crash or error. Any help is appreciated. Cant post a report if needed. Thanks in advance!

looks too short to be a report but maybe a summary? Lots of these...

5/30/16 11:02:43.316 PM ReportCrash: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.crashreporter.writereport.crash

com.apple.message.signature: mds

com.apple.message.signature2: UNBUNDLED ||| ??? (???)

com.apple.message.signature3: FAB1F6BC2EBB82D0BC47F031B7127505

com.apple.message.result: NO

com.apple.message.summarize: YES

MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.5), 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7

Posted on May 30, 2016 11:33 PM

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Answer 1

OGELTHORPE

Level 9

57,329 points

May 31, 2016 6:20 PM in response to Infinotemusic

Check to see if the MBP had kernel panics. If so log and post it per these instructions:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201753

Ciao.

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Answer 2

May 31, 2016 6:11 PM in response to OGELTHORPE

Hi OGELTHORPE,

Thanks for your reply. Forgive my ignorance here but I have a few questions.

I navigated to my correct diagnostic report folder (Finder/Go/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports) and only see crash logs. (.crash)

The apple article you linked says thats where i will see a kernel panic file (if indeed there is one) but unless im mistaken, I dont see one of those files...

i listed the titles for you to affirm or reject my assumption...

App Store_2016-05-29-024304_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

App Store_2016-05-29-024322_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-012225_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-012324_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-012426_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-012527_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-012628_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-012729_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-012830_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-012931_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-013032_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-013133_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-013234_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-013335_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

Finder_2016-05-29-013437_JDs-MacBook-Pro.crash

If none of these files suggest a kernel panic then I would ask you where to go from here?

If i am being foolish, and each of these files is its own kernel panic then i'm in way over my head...ha thx again.

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Answer 3

May 31, 2016 6:22 PM in response to OGELTHORPE

My apologies. I must have hit solved on accident and can't find out how to turn it off. This issue is NOT SOLVED!!

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Answer 4

OGELTHORPE

Level 9

57,329 points

Jun 1, 2016 4:19 AM in response to Infinotemusic

Infinotemusic wrote:

My apologies. I must have hit solved on accident and can't find out how to turn it off. This issue is NOT SOLVED!!

The forum software does not permit changing the solved/help fields once they have been selected. 😟

This is what one should see if there has been a kernel panic (This is from my MBP). Apparently your MBP has not had any:

Let's try a different approach. Download and post an Etrecheck report:

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Ciao.

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Answer 5

Jun 1, 2016 4:30 AM in response to Infinotemusic

EtreCheck version: 2.9.12 (265)

Report generated 2016-06-01 04:25:23

Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

Runtime 1:03

Performance: Excellent

Click the [Support] links for help with non-Apple products.

Click the [Details] links for more information about that line.

Problem: Other problem

Hardware Information:ⓘ

MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011)

[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,3

1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core

16 GB RAM

BANK 0/DIMM0

8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 848

Video Information:ⓘ

AMD Radeon HD 6750M - VRAM: 1024 MB

Color LCD 1920 x 1200

Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB

System Software:ⓘ

OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) - Time since boot: less than an hour

Disk Information:ⓘ

HGST HDS724040ALE640 disk1 : (4 TB) (Rotational)

disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

G-DRIVE 4TB (disk1s2) /Volumes/G-DRIVE 4TB : 4.00 TB (3.97 TB free)

Crucial_CT500MX200SSD1 disk0 : (500.11 GB) (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 499.76 GB (279.89 GB free)

MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8 ()

USB Information:ⓘ

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

LaCie Rugged USB3 THB 1 TB

disk3s1 (disk3s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

LaCie (disk3s2) /Volumes/LaCie : 999.86 GB (347.78 GB free)

Western Digital My Passport 0730 1 TB

disk2s1 (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 32 KB

My Passport (disk2s3) /Volumes/My Passport : 1.00 TB (194.39 GB free)

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Firewire Information:ⓘ

LOUD Onyxi 200mbit - 400mbit max

Thunderbolt Information:ⓘ

Apple, Inc. MacBook Pro

G-Technology G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt USB 3.0

Configuration files:ⓘ

/etc/hosts - Count: 71

Kernel Extensions:ⓘ

/Library/Application Support/WDSmartWare

[not loaded] com.wdc.driver.1394HP (1.0.7 - 2016-06-01) [Support]

[not loaded] com.wdc.driver.USBHP (1.0.7 - 2016-06-01) [Support]

/System/Library/Extensions

[not loaded] com.IKMultimedia.driver.StompIO1 (1.0.0 - 2016-05-31) [Support]

[not loaded] com.akai.mpc.usb (3.2.0 - SDK 10.7 - 2016-05-31) [Support]

[loaded] com.avatron.AVExFramebuffer (1.7 - SDK 10.8 - 2016-05-31) [Support]

[loaded] com.avatron.AVExVideo (1.7 - SDK 10.8 - 2016-05-31) [Support]

[loaded] com.digidesign.iokit.DigiDal (9.0.6 - SDK 10.5 - 2016-05-31) [Support]

[not loaded] com.jmicron.driver.jmPeripheralDevice (2.0.2 - SDK 10.5 - 2016-05-31) [Support]

[not loaded] com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.master (5.8 - 2016-05-31) [Support]

[loaded] tc.tctechnologies.driver.OnyxFireWire (4.1.0 - SDK 10.6 - 2016-05-31) [Support]

[loaded] tc.tctechnologies.driver.PaeFireStudio (4.0.0 - SDK 10.0 - 2016-05-31) [Support]

/System/Library/Extensions/PACESupportFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns

[not loaded] com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.leopard (5.8 - SDK 10.4 - 2011-07-07) [Support]

[not loaded] com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.panther (5.8 - SDK 10.-1 - 2011-07-07) [Support]

[loaded] com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard (5.8 - SDK 10.6 - 2011-07-07) [Support]

[not loaded] com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.tiger (5.8 - SDK 10.4 - 2011-07-07) [Support]

Startup Items:ⓘ

PACESupport: Path: /Library/StartupItems/PACESupport

Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite

System Launch Agents:ⓘ

[not loaded] 6 Apple tasks

[loaded] 114 Apple tasks

[running] 13 Apple tasks

System Launch Daemons:ⓘ

[not loaded] 61 Apple tasks

[loaded] 123 Apple tasks

[running] 44 Apple tasks

Launch Agents:ⓘ

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist (2015-09-03) [Support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist (2012-12-31) [Support]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist (2015-03-02) [Support]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist (2015-03-02) [Support]

Launch Daemons:ⓘ

[loaded] PACESupport.plist (2011-07-07) [Support]

[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist (2011-08-30) [Support]

[loaded] com.adobe.agsservice.plist (2015-09-03) [Support]

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2016-05-09) [Support]

[loaded] com.apple.aelwriter.plist

[running] com.apple.qmaster.qmasterd.plist

[loaded] com.apple.remotepairtool.plist

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist (2011-03-10) [Support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist (2012-12-31) [Support]

[running] com.paceap.eden.licensed.plist (2011-07-09) [Support]

[loaded] com.teamviewer.Helper.plist (2015-03-02) [Support]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist (2015-03-02) [Support]

[running] com.wdc.WDDMservice.plist (2011-08-19) [Support]

[running] com.wdc.WDSmartWareServer.plist (2011-08-19) [Support]

[loaded] org.cindori.TEAuth.plist (2016-05-29) [Support]

[loaded] tc.tctechnologies.OnyxFireWire.plist (2013-05-22) [Support]

[loaded] tc.tctechnologies.PaeFireStudio.plist (2012-09-28) [Support]

User Launch Agents:ⓘ

[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist (2011-08-30) [Support]

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist (2014-08-12) [Support]

[loaded] com.apple.AddressBook.ScheduledSync.PHXC...plist

[running] com.apple.FolderActions.enabled.plist

[loaded] com.apple.FolderActions.folders.plist

[loaded] com.digitalrebellion.PreferenceManagerAutoSave.plist (2016-04-04) [Support]

[running] com.google.Chrome.framework.plist (2016-06-01) [Support]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2016-03-02) [Support]

[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist (2016-05-31) [Support]

User Login Items:ⓘ

iTunesHelper Application Hidden (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

Air Display Host Application (/Applications/Air Display Host.app)

Remote Mouse Application (/Applications/Remote Mouse.app)

Android File Transfer Agent Application (~/Library/Application Support/Google/Android File Transfer/Android File Transfer Agent.app)

TrimCheck Application (/Applications/Trim Enabler.app/Contents/Helpers/TrimCheck.app)

XtraFinder Application (/Applications/XtraFinder.app)

HP Scheduler Application (/Library/Application Support/Hewlett-Packard/Software Update/HP Scheduler.app)

Other Apps:ⓘ

[loaded] 0x7ffaf3400950.mach_init.Inspector

[running] [0x0-0x12012].com.hp.HPScheduler

[running] [0x0-0x18018].com.getdropbox.dropbox

[running] [0x0-0x1a01a].com.avatron.AirDisplayHost2

[running] [0x0-0x1b01b].com.remotemouse.remotemouseserver

[running] [0x0-0x1c01c].com.google.android.mtpagent

[running] [0x0-0x1f01f].com.avatron.AirDisplayHelper

[running] [0x0-0x38038].com.google.Chrome

[running] [0x0-0x3c03c].com.etresoft.EtreCheck

[loaded] 354 Apple tasks

[running] 150 Apple tasks

Internet Plug-ins:ⓘ

AdobeAAMDetect: AdobeAAMDetect 1.0.0.0 - SDK 10.6 (2015-09-03) [Support]

CANONiMAGEGATEWAYLI: 2.1.0.1 (2006-04-20) [Support]

FlashPlayer-10.6: 21.0.0.242 - SDK 10.6 (2016-05-13) [Support]

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: 11.0.11 - SDK 10.6 (2015-05-12) [Support]

AdobePDFViewer: 11.0.11 - SDK 10.6 (2015-05-12) [Support]

CANONiMAGEGATEWAYDL: 2.1.0.1 (2006-04-20) [Support]

Flash Player: 21.0.0.242 - SDK 10.6 (2016-05-13) [Support]

QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.1 (2016-05-22)

SharePointBrowserPlugin: 14.6.4 - SDK 10.6 (2016-05-27) [Support]

JavaAppletPlugin: Java 8 Update 77 build 03 (2016-03-24) Check version

Audio Plug-ins:ⓘ

AKAI_MPC: Unknown - SDK 10.7 (2014-06-26) [Support]

DVCPROHDAudio: 1.3.2 (2011-08-24)

Digidesign CoreAudio: 9.0.6 - SDK 10.5 (2011-11-23) [Support]

3rd Party Preference Panes:ⓘ

Flash Player (2016-05-09) [Support]

Growl (2006-12-30) [Support]

Java (2016-03-24) [Support]

Time Machine:ⓘ

Time Machine information requires OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" or later.

Top Processes by CPU:ⓘ

20% mdworker(2)

9% fontd

6% com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper

3% backupd

3% xpchelper(3)

Top Processes by Memory:ⓘ

459 MB Google Chrome Helper(7)

147 MB Google Chrome

147 MB Dropbox

82 MB WindowServer

66 MB Finder

Virtual Memory Information:ⓘ

12.00 GB Free RAM

3.61 GB Used RAM

563 KB Swap Used

Diagnostics Information:ⓘ

Jun 1, 2016, 03:53:52 AM Self test - passed

Jun 1, 2016, 02:35:24 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023524_[redacted].crash

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadat a.framework/Versions/A/Support/mds

Jun 1, 2016, 02:35:24 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023524_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:35:14 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023514_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:35:14 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023514_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:35:03 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023503_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:35:03 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023503_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:34:47 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023447_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:34:47 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023447_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:34:36 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023436_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:34:36 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023436_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:34:25 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023425_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:34:25 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023425_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:34:14 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023414_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:34:14 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023414_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:34:04 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023404_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:34:04 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023404_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:33:54 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023354_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:33:54 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023354_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:33:44 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023344_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:33:44 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023344_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:33:33 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023333_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:33:33 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023333_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:33:22 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023322_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:33:22 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023322_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:33:12 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023312_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:33:12 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023312_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:32:21 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023221_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:32:21 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023221_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:32:10 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023210_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:32:10 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023210_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:31:59 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023159_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:31:59 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023159_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:31:50 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023150_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:31:50 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023150_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:31:37 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023137_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:31:37 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023137_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:31:01 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023101_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:31:01 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023101_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:30:39 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2016-06-01-023039_[redacted].crash

Jun 1, 2016, 02:30:39 AM /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds_2016-06-01-023039_[redacted].crash

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Answer 6

Jun 1, 2016 4:32 AM in response to Infinotemusic

Thanks for your help.

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Answer 7

OGELTHORPE

Level 9

57,329 points

Jun 1, 2016 4:49 AM in response to Infinotemusic

The Etrecheck report shows that you have several peripheral HDDs connected. If you disconnect them, is there any improvement?

Also open System Preferences>Spotlight>Privacy and select the external HDDs so that Spotlight does not access them. Any change?

Ciao.

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Answer 8

Jun 1, 2016 2:42 PM in response to OGELTHORPE

The peripherals are in fact connected. Spotlight indexing is currently off/disabled. I never actually used spotlight much.

I have a strict hierarchy for organizing folders/docs that left me remembering where about 99%of the files I need are. Had i more knowledge of spotlight when i first started my Mac Book Pro experience (2011), I may have been more apt to use it. It is possible spotlight has been disabled for quite sometime as I seem to recall a similar indexing issue in the past and would have been disbaled via terminal.

So, as we speak spotlight indexing is disabled per (sudo mdutil -a -i off) so I can make a fresh backup. I accidentally manually deleted some backup files while trying to make space last night and learned very quickly that was a BIG NO NO. I erased and reformatted my Backup drive and am backing up 1.6TB right now. When that backup has completed, I will re-enable indexing with peripherals on privacy list and see what the result is.

It seems when spotlight reaches its completion and remains idle, but then seems to have indexing hic-cups. Now i mostly understand how spotlight works so this seems to be a normal process (logging categorical info or whatever it does) but one reason I believe there is a problem is because....

as I type a search into the spotlight dialog, my typing is erased and interrupted by indexing. Repeatedly. Not to mention spotlight generates shotty results. This process was on repeat a few days ago and seems to be the constant state of things when indexing is enabled.

???? Under normal circumstances do I not want my externals to be indexed????

Or are we adding my externals to the privacy list to try to isolate the problem?

Apologies for putting so much into each message. I have decent computer knowledge up to a certain point, but when it comes to terminal, activity monitor, console and other administrative processes, I know very little. Thanks for your correspondence....

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Answer 9

Jun 2, 2016 1:34 AM in response to OGELTHORPE

Hey OGELTHORPE,

Looks like my backup drive failed and i'll need to consult a friends help as now my issue is completing a backing up as well as solving the spotlight mystery. Thanks much.

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