Google Desktop for Mac breaks mdimport/Spotlight
By Rob Scovell, in
Unix (BSD, Darwin, Linux), posted: 12-JUL-2007 20:09
I installed Google Desktop a couple of weeks ago. It broke stuff like Terminal so I picked it out of my filesystem ... or so I thought.
I was poking around in my /var/log/system.log file to sort out an NFS problem when I saw hundreds of these, every 10 seconds:
Jul 12 21:13:44 Laptop crashdump[404]: mdimport crashed
Jul 12 21:13:44 Laptop launchd: Server dd6b in bootstrap bd27 uid 502: "/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Vers
ions/A/Support/mdimportserver"[403]: exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
Jul 12 21:13:45 Laptop crashdump[404]: crash report written to: /Users/robscovell/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mdimport.crash.log
So I looked in /Users/robscovell/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mdimport.crash.log
and what did I see ... :
Command: mdimport
Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Versions/A/Support/Spotlight/mdimport
Parent: GoogleDesktopDaemon [36]
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 8243
Thread: 0
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x60000010
A full bug report will be made to Google Labs!
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I was poking around in my /var/log/system.log file to sort out an NFS problem when I saw hundreds of these, every 10 seconds:
Jul 12 21:13:44 Laptop crashdump[404]: mdimport crashed
Jul 12 21:13:44 Laptop launchd: Server dd6b in bootstrap bd27 uid 502: "/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Vers
ions/A/Support/mdimportserver"[403]: exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
Jul 12 21:13:45 Laptop crashdump[404]: crash report written to: /Users/robscovell/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mdimport.crash.log
So I looked in /Users/robscovell/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mdimport.crash.log
and what did I see ... :
Command: mdimport
Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Versions/A/Support/Spotlight/mdimport
Parent: GoogleDesktopDaemon [36]
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 8243
Thread: 0
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x60000010
A full bug report will be made to Google Labs!
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Now I know why I prefer BSD
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