A little more on Spotlight indexing Off/On ... On Aug 28, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Dan wrote: > > At 4:18 PM -0400 8/28/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: >> On Aug 28, 2009, at 4:10 PM, nestamicky wrote: >> >>> >>> On 8/28/2009 1:57 PM, Dan wrote: >>>> many of us just disable the indexing (easily done with a few >>>> commands >>>> in Terminal). >>> Would Dan care to show us the commands used to accomplish this? >> >> sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/Acoustic-Piano-Leopard >> sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/Acoustic-Piano-Leopard >> >> Adding this will start it back up: >> >> sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Acoustic-Piano-Leopard > > > You can also use /Volumes/* to hit all your volumes. > >> It might be good to add the partition name to the Privacy list in >> System Preferences > Spotlight as well. > > Doesn't matter. > > -
Well ... I got a kp at Startup that one of the guru's (this Dan?) identified as a Spotlight caused error, even with all volumes turned off via Terminal. Here's a snippet from the discussion from awhile ago: ******************* On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Dan wrote: > At 10:30 PM -0400 8/12/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: >> On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Dan wrote: >>> At 8:09 PM -0400 8/11/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: >>>> After an electrical storm today, I plugged everything back in, >>>> and I >>>> get the old behavior of several kps on Startup, and after a >>>> Safeboot, >>>> things seem to be ok. Seagate 750GB is not dropping out, though, so >>>> far. >>>> >>>> It looks like the BootCache gets messed up. From the Panic Log: >>>> >>>> Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): >>>> com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.5.6)@0x6a7000->0x6c7fff >>>> com.apple.BootCache(30.4)@0x65b000->0x660fff > > The panic was caused by spotlight's indexing process, being unable to > talk to a HD. > > Disable Spotlight's indexing and leave it off. To the best of my knowledge, it is off. I noticed mds was trying to run, but since Spotlight is off using the following commands in Terminal, I believe it is off. Perhaps it tries to Startup, but failed. I did turn it back on awhile ago, but at your suggestion, I turned it back off ... ******************* After this ... That's when I decided to place them all in the Privacy tab. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
