You might try giving this a try: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8545970
-Carl > On Oct 26, 2018, at 12:30 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > For a few months now, I've had a problem with Spotlight crashing almost > immediately nearly every time I call it up (command-space). The crash report > shows: > > Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) > Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000 > Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY > Termination Signal: Illegal instruction: 4 > Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x4 > Terminating Process: exc handler [0] > Application Specific Information: > XPC API Misuse: Release of last reference on a suspended connection. > > (I once had chops as a dump reader, but with no access to the source, I won't > even try.) > > Assuming corruption, I tried trashing the drive's Spotlight index and > rebuilding it. Spotlight behaved for almost 24 hours, then was back to its > old tricks. Future repetitions of this tactic gave zero relief, even > temporary. > > About a month ago, I started getting kernel panics, and assumed the problem > was hardware and escalating… so I brought the MBP into the Apple Store just > under the warranty line (my logic board had been replaced this summer due to > physical damage from a swollen battery). It failed a couple shop tests, so it > went to Houston and came back with a few new parts and a totally clean bill > of health. But apparently none of this was related to the Spotlight problem, > which persevered. > > I determined the problem existed only in my user account, so not hardware, > not index corruption, and not OS damage. I figured, maybe a local preference > file. Running DiskWarrior over the files located a few hinky prefs, none of > which were obviously associated with Spotlight. I got rid of most of those > (the Little Snitch deformity is well-known and apparently purposeful), but it > didn't help. > > My experience has been that if I can type enough of the search string and > then hit return REALLY FAST, I can make it launch the app or file without > crashing, or at least before crashing. This made me think: Spotlight no > longer just finds things in the file system, it now "helpfully" looks at > internet sources, dictionaries, and the like. What if it wasn't faulting on > the file search, but some helper routine like a web suggestion facility? That > might implicate something like a corrupted preference file that wasn't > obviously related to Spotlight. > > I tried invoking Spotlight with all my networks disconnected. It didn't help. > > It was at that point I remembered that I had an old copy of Preferential > Treatment, which apparently hasn't been updated in ages. I ran it, and it > found exactly one hinky (zero-length) pref: com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64.plist. > Feeling certain I had found the culprit, I removed it and rebooted. > > Nope. > > At this point, I'm out of ideas. Does anybody here have insight into > Spotlight's peculiarities, or any suggestion as to where I might look to > solve this issue? > > -- > Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support > in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. > http://macsrwe.com > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
