Re: Finding Spotlight crash

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?
> 
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