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Spotlight constantly crash on High Sierra

Got a quite frustrating problem with 10.13.3 after login to my user account Spotlight start to crash and ReportCrash kick in and take huge amount of CPU.


Here is part of system.log (multiple entries in the log)


Spotlight[1571]: objc[1571]: Class SPAppDefaults is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Spotlight.framework/Versions/A/Spotlight (0x7fff9a1f5cc8) and /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotlight (0x10b7ea4b8). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.


com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.Spotlight): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.

Spotlight[1576]: objc[1576]: Class SPWebHistoryResult is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Spotlight.framework/Versions/A/Spotlight (0x7fff9a1f6150) and /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotlight (0x1032e3b30). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.


Spotlight[1576]: objc[1576]: Class SPWebHistoryQuery is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Spotlight.framework/Versions/A/Spotlight (0x7fff9a1f6128) and /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotlight (0x1032e3b80). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.


Spotlight[1576]: objc[1576]: Class SPDefaults is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Spotlight.framework/Versions/A/Spotlight (0x7fff9a1f5db8) and /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotlight (0x1032e3ec8). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.


EtreCheck gives:


System Launch Agents:


[failed] com.apple.Spotlight.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2018-01-10)


Any idea how to solve this? Tested almost everything from repair permissions to reinstall system (with account restore from backup).

MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)

Posted on Jan 12, 2018 2:28 AM

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Jan 12, 2018 4:29 AM in response to getangar

Hello,


Thank you for your reply and help. Tested to rebuild Spotlight index without luck. Spotlight crashes and ReportCrash kick in so there is something odd happening in my system. In my previous post I already send part of my EtreCheck report where it tells that System Launch Agent com.apple.spotlight.plist failed. Below is a full EtreCheck Report. There has to be something wrong with permissions even I reset permissions to defaults cause in EtreCheck report is lot of errors about could not write to Library.

EtreCheck version: 3.4.6 (460)

Report generated 2018-01-12 14:18:08

Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

Runtime: 3:09

Performance: Good


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Problem: Apps are crashing


Hardware Information:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)

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

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1

1 2,4 GHz Intel Core i5 (i5-2435M) CPU: 2-core

8 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok

Handoff/Airdrop2: not supported

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

Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 412

iCloud Quota: 39.93 GB available


Video Information:

Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB

Color LCD 1280 x 800


Disk Information:

Samsung SSD 840 Series disk0: (120,03 GB) (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

[Show SMART report]

EFI (disk0s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB

(disk0s2) <not mounted> [APFS Container]: 119.17 GB

(disk0s3) <not mounted> [KernelCoreDump]: 655 MB


Hitachi HTS723225A7A364 disk1: (250,06 GB) (Rotational)

[Show SMART report]

EFI (disk1s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted> [EFI]: 210 MB

(disk1s2) <not mounted> [APFS Container]: 100.09 GB

TimeMachine (disk1s3 - Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+) /Volumes/TimeMachine : 149.63 GB (36.79 GB free)


USB Information:

USB20Bus

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

hub_device

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

USB20Bus

hub_device

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver


Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus


Virtual disks:

Mac SSD (disk2s1 - APFS) / [Startup]: 119.17 GB (57.53 GB free)

Physical disk: disk0s2 119.17 GB (57.53 GB free)

(disk2s2) <not mounted> [Preboot]: 119.17 GB

Physical disk: disk0s2 119.17 GB

(disk2s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 119.17 GB

Physical disk: disk0s2 119.17 GB

(disk2s4) /private/var/vm [VM]: 119.17 GB

Physical disk: disk0s2 119.17 GB

Varasto (disk3s1 - Case-sensitive APFS) /Volumes/Varasto : 100.09 GB (35.73 GB free)

Physical disk: disk1s2 100.09 GB (35.73 GB free)


System Software:

macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 (17D34a) - Time since boot: less than an hour


Configuration files:

/etc/sysctl.conf - File exists but not expected

/etc/hosts - Count: 3

System Integrity Protection status: disabled


Gatekeeper:

Mac App Store and identified developers


Kernel Extensions:

/Applications/Disk Sensei.app

[not loaded] org.cindori.TrimEnabler (1.0 - SDK 10.13) [Lookup]


/Applications/Radio Silence.app

[loaded] com.radiosilenceapp.nke.filter (2.2 - SDK 10.12) [Lookup]


/Applications/Turbo Boost Switcher.app

[not loaded] com.rugarciap.DisableTurboBoost (0.0.1 - SDK 10.7) [Lookup]


/Library/Application Support/TripMode

[not loaded] ch.tripmode.TripModeNKE (2.0.0 - SDK 10.10) [Lookup]


/Library/Extensions

[loaded] com.malwarebytes.mbam.rtprotection (3.0 - SDK 10.12) [Lookup]


/System/Library/Extensions

[loaded] com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.6.7 - SDK 10.9) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.dvdfab.kext.fabio (1.0) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice (1.2 - SDK 10.9) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.joshuawise.kexts.HoRNDIS (8 - SDK 10.6) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.makemkv.kext.daspi (1.4) [Lookup]


System Launch Agents:

[failed] com.apple.Spotlight.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2018-01-10)

[not loaded] 10 Apple tasks

[loaded] 175 Apple tasks

[running] 104 Apple tasks


System Launch Daemons:

[not loaded] 32 Apple tasks

[loaded] 192 Apple tasks

[running] 106 Apple tasks


Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.epson.esua.launcher.plist (Seiko Epson Corporation - installed 2017-12-07) [Lookup]

[running] com.epson.eventmanager.agent.plist (Seiko Epson Corporation - installed 2017-12-23) [Lookup]

[running] com.epson.scannermonitor.plist (Seiko Epson Corporation - installed 2017-12-23) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2017-11-18) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.maintain.LogOut.plist (Shell Script 1d95663e - installed 2017-12-01)

[not loaded] com.maintain.PurgeInactiveMemory.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2018-01-05)

[not loaded] com.maintain.Restart.plist (Shell Script 5421a7fd - installed 2017-12-01)

[not loaded] com.maintain.ShutDown.plist (Shell Script 9b7e817c - installed 2017-12-01)

[not loaded] com.maintain.Sleep.plist (Shell Script 94f768ba - installed 2017-12-01)

[running] com.maintain.SystemEvents.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2017-12-01)

[running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.frontend.agent.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2017-10-04) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist (? ce89f1e5 72ac4dde - installed 2017-11-28) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.radiosilenceapp.agent.plist (Juuso Salonen - installed 2018-01-07) [Lookup]


Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.acc.installer.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2017-11-30) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2017-12-15) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.bresink.system.privilegedhelper-ts5.plist (? 2ab87c3a b315f397 - installed 2017-11-19) [Lookup]

[running] com.cleverfiles.cfbackd.plist (Justin Johnson - installed 2017-12-22) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.cocoatech.pathfinder.SMFHelper7.plist (Dragan Milic - installed 2018-01-05) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.corecode.UninstallPKGDeleteHelper.plist (CoreCode Limited - installed 2017-11-26) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.gog.galaxy.clientservice.plist (GOG Poland sp. z o.o. - installed 2017-01-03) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2017-10-13) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.id-design.whatsizehelper.plist (ID-DESIGN INC. - installed 2017-12-16) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Agent.plist (MacPaw Inc. - installed 2017-11-18) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.maintain.HideSpotlightMenuBarIcon.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2017-12-01)

[loaded] com.malwarebytes.HelperTool.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2017-03-24) [Lookup]

[running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.rtprotection.daemon.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2017-10-04) [Lookup]

[running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.settings.daemon.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2017-10-04) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2016-08-17) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist (Shell Script e3fefdd2 - installed 2017-09-06) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.radiosilenceapp.nke.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2018-01-05)

[loaded] com.rogueamoeba.instanton-agent.plist (Rogue Amoeba Software, LLC - installed 2017-08-14) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.soma-zone.LaunchControl.Helper.plist (? 6e9b3110 1d058eaf - installed 2017-12-21) [Lookup]

[running] com.tclementdev.timemachineeditor.scheduler.plist (Thomas CLEMENT - installed 2017-09-20) [Lookup]

[loaded] org.cindori.SenseiTool.plist (Oskar Groth - installed 2017-11-19) [Lookup]

[loaded] science.firewolf.kcpmp.helper.plist (Bingyao Wang - installed 2018-01-07) [Lookup]


User Launch Agents:

[running] com.coconut-flavour.coconutBattery-Menu.plist (Christoph Sinai - installed 2018-01-12) [Lookup]

[loaded] com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist (? 334a3c0c 104f74cd - installed 2017-12-23) [Lookup]

[not loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Scheduler.plist (? fec2700c 0 - installed 2017-12-23) [Lookup]

[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist (? fea3bd77 38e1c511 - installed 2017-12-20) [Lookup]


User Login Items:

Alfred 2 Ohjelma

(/Applications/Alfred 2.app)

Google Chrome Ohjelma - Hidden

(/Applications/Google Chrome.app)

1Password Helper URL SMLoginItem - Hidden (Apple, Inc. - installed 2018-01-07)

(/Applications/1Password.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/2BUA8C4S2C.com.agilebi ts.onepassword-osx-helper.app)


Internet Plug-ins:

AdobeAAMDetect: AdobeAAMDetect 1.0.0.0 (installed 2017-06-06) [Lookup]

FlashPlayer-10.6: 28.0.0.137 (installed 2018-01-09) [Lookup]

QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (installed 2017-12-01)

Flash Player: 28.0.0.137 (installed 2018-01-09) [Lookup]

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: 2.4.2.4 (installed 2014-05-07) [Lookup]

Unity Web Player: UnityPlayer version 5.3.6f1 (installed 2016-07-14) [Lookup]

Silverlight: 5.1.50709.0 (installed 2018-01-07) [Lookup]

JavaAppletPlugin: Java 8 Update 151 build 12 (installed 2017-11-28) Check version


Safari Extensions:

[enabled] FaceBlock - Connor McKay (installed 2012-05-30)

[enabled] remYoutubeAdFrame - Detlef Schneider - http://www.liontricks.net (installed 2011-01-29)

[not loaded] Navigator for Reddit - Devin Rousso - https://devinrousso.com (installed 2017-04-10)

[enabled] Save to Pocket - Read It Later, Inc. - http://getpocket.com/ (installed 2015-11-07)

[enabled] Beautipedia - funwithpi - http://funwithpi.uphero.com/ (installed 2012-05-01)

[enabled] Facebook Improved - Lex Friedman - http://blog.lexfriedman.com (installed 2014-04-11)

[not loaded] Reddit Enhancement Suite - Steve Sobel - http://redditenhancementsuite.com/ (installed 2017-04-14)

[enabled] Optimize Legibility - Paul Kehrer - http://langui.sh/safari-extensions/ (installed 2010-07-02)

[not loaded] Open in Internet Explorer - Parallels - http://www.parallels.com (installed 2017-07-29)

[not loaded] Pin It Button - Pinterest, Inc. - http://www.pinterest.com/ (installed 2015-10-22)

[enabled] Tampermonkey - Jan Biniok - http://tampermonkey.net (installed 2017-12-14)

[enabled] 1Password - AgileBits - https://agilebits.com/onepassword (installed 2015-10-22)

[enabled] Shortly - Zhusee (ZZHC Studio) - http://zzhc.org/shortly/ (installed 2013-07-30)


Audio Plug-ins:

BartenderAudioPlugIn: 1.0.0 (installed 2015-11-07) [Lookup]


3rd Party Preference Panes:

RCDefaultApp (installed 2015-03-08) [Lookup]

EarthDesk (installed 2017-12-23) [Lookup]

Flash Player (installed 2017-12-15) [Lookup]

Flip4Mac WMV (installed 2012-03-20) [Lookup]

FUSE (installed 2017-09-21) [Lookup]

Java (installed 2017-11-28) [Lookup]


Time Machine:

Skip System Files: NO

Mobile backups: OFF

Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off

Volumes being backed up:

Mac SSD: Disk size: 119.17 GB Disk used: 61.64 GB

Destinations:

TimeMachine [Local]

Total size: 149.63 GB

Total number of backups: 16

Oldest backup: 22.12.2017 16.11

Last backup: 12.1.2018 10.27

Size of backup disk: Too small

Backup size 149.63 GB < (Disk used 61.64 GB X 3)


Top Processes by CPU:

22% mdworker

22% mdworker

22% mdworker

20% mdworker

19% mdworker


Top Processes by Memory:

941 MB kernel_task

642 MB mds_stores

463 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

191 MB mdworker

171 MB Safari


Top Processes by Network Use:

Input Output Process name

908 KB 44 KB com.apple.WebKit.Networking

66 KB 41 KB mDNSResponder

18 KB 27 KB apsd

7 KB 4 KB netbiosd

7 KB 2 KB cloudd


Top Processes by Energy Use:

44.66 mds_stores

42.80 mdworker

42.58 mdworker

40.64 mdworker

39.70 mdworker


Virtual Memory Information:

2.66 GB Available RAM

953 MB Free RAM

5.34 GB Used RAM

1.73 GB Cached files

0 B Swap Used


Software installs (last 30 days):

Adobe Flash Player: (installed 2018-01-09)

Dr. Cleaner: 3.3.3 (installed 2018-01-10)


Install information may not be complete.


Diagnostics Events (last 3 days for minor events):

2018-01-12 13:56:58 Last shutdown cause: 3 - Hard shutdown

2018-01-12 13:37:09 LookupViewService Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

2018-01-12 10:33:41 1Blocker.app Crash [Open]

2018-01-11 16:36:27 com.apple.CloudPhotosConfiguration Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld3: launch started

Sandbox creation failed: Container object initialization failed.

You don’t have permission to save the file “Caches” in the folder “Library”.

NSCocoaErrorDomain:513

2018-01-11 16:36:26 AirPlayUIAgent.app Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld3: launch started

Sandbox creation failed: (null)

2018-01-11 16:36:26 SocialPushAgent.app Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld3: launch started

Sandbox creation failed: Container object initialization failed.

You don’t have permission to save the file “Logs” in the folder “Library”.

NSCocoaErrorDomain:513

2018-01-11 16:36:24 ContactsAccountsService Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld3: launch started

Sandbox creation failed: (null)

2018-01-11 16:36:23 cloudphotosd.app Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld3: launch started

Sandbox creation failed: (null)

2018-01-11 16:35:53 photoanalysisd Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld3: launch started

Sandbox creation failed: Container object initialization failed.

The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied

NSPOSIXErrorDomain:13 Permission denied

2018-01-11 16:35:48 Reminders.app Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld3: launch started

Sandbox creation failed: Container object initialization failed.

The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied

NSPOSIXErrorDomain:13 Permission denied

2018-01-11 16:35:43 soagent.app Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld: launch, running initializers

/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

Sandbox creation failed: Container object initialization failed.

The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied

NSPOSIXErrorDomain:13 Permission denied

2018-01-11 16:35:43 Stocks.app Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld3: launch started

Sandbox creation failed: Container object initialization failed.

The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied

NSPOSIXErrorDomain:13 Permission denied

2018-01-11 16:35:43 NotificationCenter.app Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld3: launch started

Sandbox creation failed: Container object initialization failed.

The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied

NSPOSIXErrorDomain:13 Permission denied

2018-01-11 16:34:57 GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app Crash [Open]

Cause: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'KSUpdateEngine requres a ticket store. in '-[KSUpdateEngine initWithTicketStore:serverInfoStorePath:countingMetricsStore:delegate:]' at /var/netboot/tmp/tmpfs/src/piper/branches/MacKeystone_release_branch/google3/th ird_party/objective_c/update_engine/Core/KSUpdateEngine.m:115'

terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

abort() called

2018-01-11 16:30:26 languageassetd Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld3: launch started

Sandbox creation failed: Container object initialization failed.

The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied

NSPOSIXErrorDomain:13 Permission denied

2018-01-11 16:28:15 tuxera_ntfs Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

2018-01-11 15:50:22 DropboxMacUpdate.app Crash [Open]

Cause: dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

2018-01-10 18:26:07 Spotlight.app Crash [Open]

Cause: Assertion failed: (headerRecord->totalSize == (uint32_t)containerBuffer->size), function MDPlistGetRootPlistObjectFromBuffer, file /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/SpotlightCore/Spotlight-1191.2. 6/generic/MDPlistContainer.c, line 556.

2018-01-10 17:30:53 ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Spotlight_2018-01-10-173053_[redacted].crash Crash [Open]

2018-01-10 16:09:31 cloudd Crash [Open]

Cause: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Path /Users/USER/Library/Caches/*/MMCS deleted/renamed, crashing.'

terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

abort() called

2018-01-10 08:34:33 findmydeviced Crash [Open]

Spotlight constantly crash on High Sierra

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