Q: "Beach balling" and freeze
I recently upgraded to El Capitan 10.11.6 and today I encountered a problem -- I doubled-clicked on my HD icon and the cursor changed to a beachball. I wasn't able to recover, so I held the power button on my iMac until the system restarted.
I ran EtreCheck and here is the report. Any idea as to what com.apple.watchdogd.plist (2016-02-27) is, and could this be the problem?:
EtreCheck version: 3.0.1 (304)
Report generated 2016-08-17 17:48:50
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Runtime 1:35
Performance: Excellent
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Problem: Beachballing
Description:
Computer suddenly displayed the “beachball” and became unresponsive.
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013)
[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]
iMac - model: iMac14,1
1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core
8 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]
BANK 0/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
Wireless: Unknown
Intel Iris Pro
iMac 1920 x 1080
OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G31) - Time since boot: less than an hour
APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 disk0 : (1 TB) (Rotational)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 999.03 GB (942.84 GB free)
Core Storage: disk0s2 999.35 GB Online
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Western Digital My Book 1110 499.41 GB
disk2s1 (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 32 KB
disk2s2 (disk2s2) <not mounted> : 29 KB
disk2s3 (disk2s3) <not mounted> : 29 KB
disk2s4 (disk2s4) <not mounted> : 29 KB
disk2s5 (disk2s5) <not mounted> : 29 KB
disk2s6 (disk2s6) <not mounted> : 262 KB
disk2s7 (disk2s7) <not mounted> : 262 KB
disk2s8 (disk2s8) <not mounted> : 262 KB
My Book (disk2s10) /Volumes/My Book : 499.27 GB (126.35 GB free)
APC Back-UPS ES 500 FW:801.e5.D USB FW:e5
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Mac App Store and identified developers
[not loaded] 6 Apple tasks
[loaded] 161 Apple tasks
[running] 71 Apple tasks
[failed] com.apple.watchdogd.plist (2016-02-27)
[not loaded] 46 Apple tasks
[loaded] 155 Apple tasks
[running] 88 Apple tasks
iTunesHelper Application Hidden (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
Default Browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-08-14)
QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-08-14)
None
Skip System Files: NO
Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 999.03 GB Disk used: 56.19 GB
Destinations:
My Book [Local]
Total size: 499.27 GB
Total number of backups: 270
Oldest backup: 11/2/11, 11:31 AM
Last backup: 8/15/16, 12:16 PM
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 499.27 GB > (Disk used 56.19 GB X 3)
2% fontd
1% WindowServer
0% cloudpaird
645 MB kernel_task
98 MB iconservicesagent(2)
49 MB Dock
49 MB WindowServer
41 MB com.apple.CommerceKit.TransactionService(2)
5.41 GB Free RAM
2.58 GB Used RAM (1.69 GB Cached)
0 B Swap Used
Aug 17, 2016, 05:36:46 PM Self test - passed
Aug 17, 2016, 05:35:49 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/System Preferences_2016-08-17-173549_[redacted].hang
/Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences
Aug 17, 2016, 05:32:12 PM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2016-08-17-173212_[redacted].hang
/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), null
Posted on Aug 17, 2016 2:58 PM