Copy/paste not working: pboard crash

After upgrading to build 17B1003 (Security Update 2017-001) copy/paste stopped working. There's a noticeable freeze when trying to copy anything to the clipboard.

Investigating the logs revealed that it is due to pboard crash with the following message:

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** initialization method - initWithFormat:locale:arguments: cannot be sent to an abstract object of class NSString : Create a concrete instance!'

It is always accompanied with another Sandbox message:

Sandbox: pboard(664) deny file-read-data /usr/libexec

The error is reproducible in Safe mode and under any user.

How to fix this?

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Dec 1, 2017 1:07 AM

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kaluzhanin Author

Level 1

5 points

Posted on Dec 4, 2017 6:04 AM

I've recently had a call from Apple Support, and it was super helpful.

The issue was fixed after opening the Terminal.app, typing

sudo update_dyld_shared_cache-force

It will ask for a password. Provide the password, wait for the command to finish, and then restart.

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munkymajik

Level 4

1,505 points

Dec 4, 2017 1:34 AM in response to yifeiZhao

Did you read through the post that I linked to earlier?

Dec 4, 2017 2:40 AM in response to munkymajik

I tried all approach mentioned before, but not helped. Do you have any suggestion about it?

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Copy/paste not working: pboard crash