Since updating to macOS 15.5, I've noticed that when I select the "Now" feature on the macOS Console app, it'll first of all jump to the latest line in the log file, but on update, jumps back to the top. Has anyone experienced this and found a way to resolve this?

I've been trying to remove this weird recurring process that happens every second in my system.log: Sep 27 23:45:12 User-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd (com.apple.dpd): Service exited with abnormal code: 75 Sep 27 23:45:12 User-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd (com.apple.dpd): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds. It'll also randomly throw this SIGKILL message: Sep 27 23:51:14 User-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd (com.apple.mdworker.shared.05000000-0200-0000-0000-000000000000): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds I've tried a few things so far: 1. Disabled SIP in recovery mode, ran sudo mount -uw / in terminal after booting and removed the com.apple.dpd.plist file from System/Library/LaunchDaemons 2. Re-formatted my hard drive and did a fresh install of Catalina. Repeated the above step. I've been Googling non-stop so has anyone experienced this or know how to fix it? Thanks!

Out of boredom, I ran the console application that comes with macOS by default. As I was looking through some of the logs, I noticed a line that said: "msg":"onAvengerAdvertisementDetected: got avenger advertisement", "subHarvester":"Avenger"} coming from the subsystem com.apple.locationd.Core under the category Harvester. After looking further, I noticed a bunch of other calls using the term "advertisement" in them too. For example, there's: {"msg":"convertToSPAdvertisement", "address":, "data":, "date":, "rssi":, "status":, "reserved":, "subHarvester":"Avenger"} coming from the same subsystem and category. Does anyone have any idea where these logs are coming from? I'm on a MacBook Air M1 running macOS Monterrey 12.2.1

I’m debugging a Bluetooth app on an iPhone. When I connect it via cable to a Mac, I see that Apple logs output from “bluetoothd” service in between my app’s output. The logs contain central/ peripheral events, incoming requests, rssi info, etc. **Where can I find documentation to understand what is happening with bluetoothd ata hardware level?** I’m looking for information like “this hen I see packet X, the connection state is Y”, or “this message means the device has reconnected to a service Z”

It's only a small thing I guess, but I'm annoyed to see errors reported in the console for my AppleScripts where the text of the error message contains substitute characters. e.g. Error Number: -43 Error Message: The operation canÕt be completed. In the error message "can’t" has been replaced by "canÕt" I’m not sure if this is a failure of AppleScript, the shell or console.app. I've tried the usual routes of examining console.app (no settings), System Settings (language & regions and keyboard characters seems not to affect console output). This example demonstrates the problem:

set appName to "textTester"
set targetFolder to "Virtuality:Users:minmin:Documents:" -- an non-existent destination forces the error
try
	tell application "System Events"
		set theResult to name of every file of targetFolder
	end tell
on error errMsg number errNum
	set logEntry to (linefeed & errNum & space & errMsg & linefeed) as text
	tell me to writeToLogFile(logEntry, appName) -- error messages generated by AppleScript itself create the problem
	tell me to writeToLogFile("Who would've thought I can't log this text properly?", appName) -- demonstrates that writing directly to the log is fine	
end try

on writeToLogFile(logEntry, appName)
	local handlerName
	set handlerName to "writeToLogFile"
	set theDate to do shell script "date '+_%Y_%m_%d'"
	set theDate1st to do shell script "date '+_%Y_%m'" --real date 1st would be "date '+_%m_1_%Y'"
	
	set libPath to path to library folder from user domain as string
	set theFolderPath to (libPath & "Logs:") as string
	set theFilePath to (theFolderPath & appName & ":") as string
	
	set theFileName to (appName & theDate1st & ".log")
	set theFile to (theFilePath & theFileName)
	
	try
		set okToContinue to false
		tell application "Finder"			
			--make sure the folder is there
			if (not (exists folder theFilePath)) then
				make new folder at theFolderPath with properties {name:appName}
			end if
			
			--make sure the logfile is there - or turn it over
			if (not (exists theFile)) then
				set theFile to make new file at theFilePath with properties {name:theFileName, file type:"TEXT", creator type:"ttxt"}
			end if
			
			--open and write logfile entries
			set theFile to theFile as alias
			tell me
				set writetoTheThing to open for access theFile with write permission
				write (logEntry & return) to writetoTheThing starting at eof
				
				close access (writetoTheThing)
			end tell
			set okToContinue to true
		end tell
		
	on error errMsg number errNum
		log errMsg
	end try
	return okToContinue
	
end writeToLogFile

Is there indeed a fix?

# The issue For some reason, every few days, I am unable to open any apps on my Mac. **Occasionally, when I open an app on my Mac, regardless of what app it is (Activity Monitor, Safari, Preview, Photos, etc.), it would just bounce indefinitely in the Mac dock, without ever launching.** I am, in general, able to continue using any apps that are already running. This is why I don't always notice that the problem has occurred yet, because I'll only notice it when I launch another app. However, one time, I was watching a video in VLC, and after halfway through watching a video, I tried to pause it, but I couldn't pause it (while I was in fullscreen mode), and that's when I knew the issue occurred again. I confirmed this by opening other apps, and they bounced indefinitely in the dock. This issue could start whether I'm at my Mac or away from it. Also, I already have the option disabled for putting hard drives to sleep when not in use. # Attempted solutions I posted [EtreCheck results to a Gist](https://gist.github.com/garyking/ab5d6fb220636300a6c0a19f7058cbef) , so please take a look to see if there might be any software that is causing the problem. I chose the "Apps are crashing" option. ## Deleting com.apple.finder.plist file I tried trashing the com.apple.finder.plist file, but the issue still persists afterwards. Restarting Finder through Force Quit (Relaunch) only quit Finder, but did not launch it back up. Also, after the issue occurs, I can't even Log Out or Restart my Mac; I must force restart my Mac by pressing and holding the Mac's power button (it's a Mac Mini). ## Checking crontab Results:

$ crontab -l
crontab: no crontab for gary
$ sudo crontab -l
crontab: no crontab for root

## Mac updates I already have Mac automatic updates and App Store automatic updates completely disabled. I manually perform updates once a week. # Times when the issue happened I started having this problem after I bought a new Mac, which also forced me to upgrade my MacOS from MacOS Catalina to MacOS Monterey. I got the new Mac on July 15, 2022, about a month ago. I migrated everything from my old Mac Mini to my new Mac Mini. It's possible that the issue is caused by something that was migrated from the old Mac, so you can take a look at the EtreCheck report linked above to see what that might be. I noticed a trend that the issue would occur roughly every 72 hours. I don't know why that would be, though, since my routine is occasionally different, such as I'm sometimes away from my Mac, when the issue occurs. Here is a list of the times that the issue occurred: - 2022-08-06 at 7:00 pm - 2022-08-10 at 10:03 pm - 2022-08-13 at 9:29 pm - 2022-08-16 at 10:57 pm # Possible solutions Is there anything I could check, to get some clues? For instance, is there any console logs to check? I briefly checked logs in the Console app, but couldn't find anything relevant to the issue. The amount of information in the Console app is also overwhelming, so I'm not quite sure where to start.

I have an iPhone connected to my MacBook and I'm trying to stream the console logs from it via my terminal. I saw [this answer](https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/401589/393599) that uses the --device-name option for log collect. However, log stream has no similar option. I also tried idevicesyslog but those logging messages are not what I'm looking for. That is, when I ran idevicesyslog in the terminal simultaneous with the Console GUI, I got different messages.

The Family process (/System/Library/CoreServices/Family.app/Contents/MacOS/Family) is hanging randomly on macOS. When this happens Screen Time settings fail to sync from iPhone to iMac, Find My struggles to locate devices, and cpu begins to overheat. I have been on the phone and screen shared with Apple Tier 1 with no resolution. There are multiple questions on Apple community, reddit, and other forums trying to resolve this issue. AFAIK none have been successful. One suggestion was adding /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IMCore.framework/imagent.app as an Allow rule in Network Firewall ( OR even just turning off the Firewall in Network settings ) to test if that solved this issue. So far (after 12 hours of monitoring Activity Monitor) it seems to have prevented the Family binary getting stuck in a (Non Responsive) state but hundreds of errors in Console.app suggests the issue is still present. With Firewall off I see hundreds of console faults for the Family process:

43315	fault	12:26:52.972217-0500	Family	CoreData: Unable to create token NSXPCConnection.  NSXPCStoreServerEndpointFactory 0x7f8e89122f10 -newEndpoint returned nil

Other curious entries:

1174	fault	12:29:47.235445-0500	UIKitSystem	container_query_get_single_result: client is not entitled
1113	fault	12:34:14.299396-0500	imagent	Couldn't write values for keys (
    CheckSensitivePhotosAnalytics
) in CFPrefsPlistSource (Domain: com.apple.messages.commsafety, User: kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, ByHost: No, Container: (null), Contents Need Refresh: No): setting these preferences requires user-preference-write or file-write-data sandbox access
164	fault	12:34:22.125092-0500	apsd	Peer connection [pid=1051] lacks APSConnectionInitiateEntitlement
46757	fault	12:34:30.890039-0500	com.apple.WebKit.WebContent	checkinWithServer Failed bootstrap_lookup2 for name of coreservicesd, kern_return_t=#1100/0x44c Permission denied name=com.apple.CoreServices.coreservicesd

Why is this process hanging?

I've used wget for the first time after installing Lion OS X and I've noticed that wget got localized to my native language. Running set command in terminal showed that my LANG variable represents my local language. Where can I change this or make wget ignore this setting? *update* Here's what locale gives me: LANG="lt_LT.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="lt_LT.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="lt_LT.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="lt_LT.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="lt_LT.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="lt_LT.UTF-8" LC_TIME="lt_LT.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Hence all the output of non-parameters (such as prompts and debug messages) are in Lithuanian. That is my problem. I'd like to get it back to English. I am using zsh as my login shell.

Since installing OSX 10.10 (Yosemite), my console is full of error messages regarding fmfd, like fmfd(384) deny file-read-metadata /Volumes/Macintosh HD This happens mostly at startup and when starting programs. I just want to know what it is, for my peace of mind and that my console can lose some weight ;) Here´s some more (hopefully useful) information from one report: fmfd(384) deny file-read-metadata /Volumes/Macintosh HD Process: fmfd Path: /usr/libexec/fmfd Load Address: 0x105f38000 Identifier: fmfd Version: ??? (???) Code Type: x86_64 (Native) Parent Process: launchd Date/Time: 2014-10-21 17:13:10.336 +0200 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10 (14A389) Report Version: 8 Can you help me with that, or assure me it´s harmless? I don´t necessarily want to allow the process more rights in the sandbox if not necessary, like they did in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5495141?start=15&tstart=0

In the Console app I found this file "launch.log" (/private/var/log/com.apple.xpc.launchd), which is continually increasing in size. Is it a normal behavior?

I just noticed that an entire day, in which I worked the full day and have activity logs elsewhere, is missing from my macOS system log when viewed with the log show command. Here is an excerpt:

2024-02-23 08:32:07.590995-0800 0xd43      Default     0x0                  157    7    runningboardd: (RunningBoard) [com.apple.runningboard:ttl] [xpcservice:190])>:191] termination reported by launchd (2, 9, 9)
2024-02-23 08:32:07.592104-0800 0xd44      Default     0x0                  157    7    runningboardd: (RunningBoard) [com.apple.runningboard:ttl] [osservice:66] termination reported by launchd (2, 9, 9)
2024-02-23 08:32:07.592144-0800 0xd38      Default     0x0                  157    7    runningboardd: (RunningBoard) [com.apple.runningboard:ttl] [osservice:181] termination reported by launchd (2, 9, 9)
2024-02-23 08:32:07.592594-0800 0xacd      Default     0x0                  157    7    runningboardd: (RunningBoard) [com.apple.runningboard:ttl] [osservice:69] termination reported by launchd (2, 9, 9)
2024-02-23 08:32:07.763936-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 08:32:09.142790-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 08:32:09.234454-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 09:33:09.218771-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 10:33:08.987668-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 11:33:09.068556-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 12:33:08.425020-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 13:40:45.500447-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 14:41:46.626749-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 15:33:08.284574-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 16:33:08.821681-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 17:33:06.577544-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 18:46:17.768210-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 19:37:23.184427-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 20:33:35.544479-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 21:36:27.698451-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 22:46:56.680742-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-23 23:46:10.686244-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 00:35:07.690284-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 01:46:31.654347-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 02:38:59.622109-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 03:43:13.631398-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 04:34:19.624661-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 05:43:01.644581-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 06:47:36.606244-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 07:44:33.100364-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 08:48:45.621311-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 09:44:30.597091-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 10:47:01.690523-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 11:39:29.206058-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 12:40:30.364197-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 13:33:06.515055-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 14:33:09.121611-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 15:35:40.819962-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 16:36:59.535330-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 17:39:51.191734-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 18:40:40.333432-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 19:38:58.497582-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 20:48:56.493608-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 21:34:46.959046-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 22:43:05.428233-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-24 23:41:13.238229-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 00:49:31.401751-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 01:37:13.395058-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 02:43:49.426381-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 03:33:15.417763-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 04:37:42.334964-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 05:40:20.385168-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 06:44:07.359897-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 07:37:25.294353-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 08:42:20.321047-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 09:39:21.273834-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 10:35:15.246133-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 10:42:45.347110-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 10:42:45.927165-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 10:43:18.081451-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system boot: 462840C5-1C46-43BE-ACE8-1198491A546B
2024-02-25 10:43:21.868478-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 10:43:21.888036-0800 0x0        Timesync    0x0                  0      0    === system wallclock time adjusted
2024-02-25 10:43:21.942399-0800 0x967      Fault       0x61                 84     14   tccd: [com.apple.TCC:access]  does not appear to be a database we made! Purging it
2024-02-25 10:43:21.945914-0800 0x921      Default     0x0                  46     7    UserEventAgent: (SkyLight) [com.apple.SkyLight:default] Set a breakpoint at SLSLogBreak to catch errors/faults as they are logged.
2024-02-25 10:43:21.945946-0800 0x921      Error       0x0                  46     7    UserEventAgent: (SkyLight) [com.apple.SkyLight:default] Server root port lookup error - bootstrap: unknown service
2024-02-25 10:43:21.958642-0800 0x967      Fault       0x62                 84     14   tccd: [com.apple.TCC:access] Failed to remove file at   Error: 
2024-02-25 10:43:21.961688-0800 0x0        State       0x61                 84     14   tccd: tccd database
{
    "ACTIVE_POLICIES" =     (
    );
    "DB_FILE_METADATA" =     {
        FILENAME = "/System/Volumes/Data/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db";
        "ST_ATIME" = "2024-02-25 18:43:21 +0000";
        "ST_BIRTHTIME" = "2024-02-25 18:43:21 +0000";
        "ST_CTIME" = "2024-02-25 18:43:21 +0000";
        "ST_GID" = 0;
        "ST_MODE" = 100644;
        "ST_MTIME" = "2024-02-25 18:43:21 +0000";
        "ST_UID" = 0;
    };
    OVERRIDES =     (
    );
    PID = 84;
    POLICIES =     (
    );
    RECORDS =     (
    );
    STATUS = 0;
    UID = 0;
    VERS = 29;
}
2024-02-25 10:43:21.988110-0800 0x923      Default     0x0                  50     8    powerd: [com.apple.powerd:batteryAuth] not supported
2024-02-25 10:43:21.989506-0800 0x9e0      Default     0x0                  98     2    lsd: (LaunchServices) [com.apple.launchservices:default] lsd starting with schema version 5019 for effective user 0
2024-02-25 10:43:21.990622-0800 0x923      Default     0x0                  50     8    powerd: [com.apple.powerd:sleepWake] vm.darkwake_mode: 0 -> 0
2024-02-25 10:43:21.995656-0800 0x9e0      Error       0x0                  98     2    lsd: (LaunchServices) [com.apple.launchservices:db] _CSStoreCreateWithURL failed with error Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “com.apple.LaunchServices-5019-v2.csstore” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/0/com.apple.LaunchServices.dv/com.apple.LaunchServices-5019-v2.csstore, NSURL=file:///var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/0/com.apple.LaunchServices.dv/com.apple.LaunchServices-5019-v2.csstore, NSUnderlyingError=0x6000023c4060 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}

Does anyone know what may have caused this? I noticed this because I saw a gap in resource usage through iStats Menu half way through the 24th of February, so I wanted to see if what happened as I did not shut my computer down. Upon further inspection, I noticed that the 23rd and 24th were both missing from the System Log. What makes me confused is that the 23rd was a Friday and I was using the computer for work.

Today I updated my 2014 MacBook Air to macOS Mojave 10.14.5 as it just released. After the update finished, I checked console logs and noticed in 'System Reports' there's a log named "signpost_reporter[date & details].cpu_resource". In the console log the path is /usr/libexec/signpost_reporter, a path i've never seen before until today. I also updated my family's iMac to 10.14.5 but no signpost_reporter log was created after the instillation finished. What exactly is "signpost_reporter"? What is it's function? Why did I get a log for it?

Running log stats --overview yields the following summary of all the logs on a mac. Comparing the start and end timestamps to the lists of TTLs, I don't understand how these work together. If there are 43k logs with a TTL of 30 days, how does the start and end date of 8 days make sense? I cannot filter for the ttl field, which makes it more difficult to analyze this situation.

I’ve used Safari as my main browser for web dev for years now and at some point fairly recently what I think of as the ‘mini’ console has started to open automatically whenever I right-click and select Inspect Element. I’m talking about the minimisable console here (highlighted in yellow below) rather than the dedicated Console tab. I’m not sure if this is an intentional change in webkit but I find it very frustrating as the console portion opens up even if I’ve hidden it via the ▿ button previously, and it wastes valuable space. Has anyone else run in to this or found a workaround? I’ve trawled through all of the Inspector settings and can’t see anything. Neither Chrome or Edge have started doing this with their Inspect Element features, but I’d prefer to stick with Safari if possible.

I'm getting two errors in the console at the same time TimeMachine is running and taking FOREVER to make any progress. 1/4/13 9:41:38.000 PM kernel: Sandbox: sandboxd(5838) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd The second entry is : mdworker32(5837) deny mach-lookup com.apple.PowerManagement.control (import fstype:hfs fsflag:480D000 flags:200000056 diag:0 uti:com.microsoft.excel.openxml.addin plugin:/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 861170) It has the following details: Process: mdworker32 Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Versions/A/Support/mdworker32 Load Address: 0xb3000 Identifier: mdworker32 Version: ??? (???) Code Type: i386 (Native) Parent Process: launchd Date/Time: 2013-01-04 21:41:43.007 -0500 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C3012) Report Version: 8 Thread 0: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9524b7d2 mach_msg_trap + 10 1 CoreFoundation 0x9a436599 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 185 2 CoreFoundation 0x9a43bf7f __CFRunLoopRun + 1247 3 CoreFoundation 0x9a43b63a CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 378 4 CoreFoundation 0x9a44b061 CFRunLoopRun + 129 5 mdworker32 0x000bcd14 6 libdyld.dylib 0x98282725 start + 0 Thread 1: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9524e9ae kevent + 10 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x957dd7a9 _dispatch_mach_notify_source_init + 0 Thread 2: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9524e0ee __workq_kernreturn + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x956c3e19 _pthread_wqthread + 448 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x956abcca start_wqthread + 30 Thread 3: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9524e0ee __workq_kernreturn + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x956c3e19 _pthread_wqthread + 448 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x956abcca start_wqthread + 30 Thread 4: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9524e0ee __workq_kernreturn + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x956c3e19 _pthread_wqthread + 448 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x956abcca start_wqthread + 30 Thread 5: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x9524b7d2 mach_msg_trap + 10 1 liblaunch.dylib 0x934cae58 2 liblaunch.dylib 0x934c968e bootstrap_look_up3 + 78 3 liblaunch.dylib 0x934c9862 bootstrap_look_up2 + 77 4 IOKit 0x95792146 _pm_connect + 108 5 IOKit 0x957936b6 IOPMConnectionGetSystemCapabilities + 38 6 ATS 0x903c42ff FOLazyInitialize + 83 7 ATS 0x9040368a FOGetFontFamilyFromName + 31 8 QD 0x912aafc2 GetFNum + 17 9 HIToolbox 0x90670a80 HLTBGetFontNumber + 24 10 HIToolbox 0x906706c6 SetCustomizedFields + 853 11 HIToolbox 0x906701a0 InitIntlValue + 70 12 CarbonCore 0x97d331fc IntlIsInitIntlValueDone + 40 13 CarbonCore 0x97d32b13 SMInitIntlSpec + 1550 14 CarbonCore 0x97d321d2 LMGetIntlSpec + 69 15 CarbonCore 0x97db023f FWMapScript + 11 16 CarbonCore 0x97db021a FillParseTable + 110 17 Microsoft Office 0x00826d25 OfficeImporterPluginFactory + 493228 18 Microsoft Office 0x00826065 OfficeImporterPluginFactory + 489964 19 Microsoft Office 0x0082616e OfficeImporterPluginFactory + 490229 20 Microsoft Office 0x008d215a OfficeImporterPluginFactory + 1194721 21 Microsoft Office 0x007c3c5b OfficeImporterPluginFactory + 87522 22 Microsoft Office 0x007c05dc OfficeImporterPluginFactory + 73571 23 Microsoft Office 0x007c21ca OfficeImporterPluginFactory + 80721 24 Microsoft Office 0x007be0f6 OfficeImporterPluginFactory + 64125 25 Microsoft Office 0x007bf13c OfficeImporterPluginFactory + 68291 26 Microsoft Office 0x007ae78c OfficeImporterPluginFactory + 275 27 mdworker32 0x000ba98d 28 mdworker32 0x000b8d33 29 mdworker32 0x000b9f38 30 mdworker32 0x000be8c0 31 libsystem_c.dylib 0x956c1557 _pthread_start + 344 32 libsystem_c.dylib 0x956abcee thread_start + 34 Binary Images: 0xb3000 - 0x10bff3 mdworker32 (707.3) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Versions/A/Support/mdworker32 0x7ad000 - 0x9c5ff2 com.microsoft.MDImporter.Office (12.3.0 - 12.3.0) /Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Office 0x903c3000 - 0x90438ff7 com.apple.ApplicationServices.ATS (332) /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Versions/A/ATS 0x90602000 - 0x909e5ff3 com.apple.HIToolbox (2.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/HIToolbox 0x91256000 - 0x912f6ff7 com.apple.QD (3.42) /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/QD.framework/Versions/A/QD 0x934c7000 - 0x934cefff liblaunch.dylib (442.26.2) /usr/lib/system/liblaunch.dylib 0x95239000 - 0x95253ffc libsystem_kernel.dylib (2050.20.9) /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x956ab000 - 0x95768feb libsystem_c.dylib (825.25) /usr/lib/system/libsystem_c.dylib 0x95770000 - 0x957d8ff7 com.apple.framework.IOKit (2.0.1) /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit 0x957d9000 - 0x957ebff7 libdispatch.dylib (228.23) /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib 0x97d06000 - 0x9800bff7 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore (1037.3 - 1037.3) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore 0x98280000 - 0x98282fff libdyld.dylib (210.2.3) /usr/lib/system/libdyld.dylib 0x9a404000 - 0x9a5ecff3 com.apple.CoreFoundation (6.8 - 744.12) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation When I run the above mentioned SUDO command I get /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Add-Ins/Solver.xlam /Volumes/Not Encrypted/Backups.backupdb/clamont’s MacBook Pro/2012-12-04-080942/Macintosh HD/Users/clamont/Library/Calendars/Calendar Sync Changes/11EDF221-B949-4881-9815-2E00E96A4CA2.tmp /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Chris’s MacBook Pro/2012-12-05-033251/Macintosh HD/Users/clamont/Library/Developer/Shared/Documentation/DocSets/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleOSX10_8.CoreReference.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptual/WritingPCIDrivers/agp_device/agp_device.html Based on the "access denied" error and that I've only backed up 3GB of data within 30 minutes on a firewire port makes me think something is broken. Can anyone tell me where to go next in troubleshooting this? ----- Update: I found an article that says I should modify system.sb (located in /System/Library/Sandbox/Profiles) to include: (allow mach-lookup (global-name "com.apple.ls.boxd")) (allow mach-lookup (local-name "com.apple.ls.boxd")) Can anyone help me understand what is going on and if I'm lowering security in any way at all?

I want to crash an application in order to produce the crash report and view it in Console.app. However, running sudo kill or sudo kill -9 closes the application but does not produce the Crash Report. The same with Force Quit. I also googled for any "malware" application that can temper with program memory, "like WinDbg" can for Windows, but I could not find anything. All Google searches containing "mac", "app", and "crash" are about solutions to preventing apps from crashing.

It seems that using multiple criteria within search in Console implies an **AND** operator. So if I add a **TagA** and a **TagB** filters, it will find only messages that contains both **TagA** and **TagB** together. Is it possible to filter using **OR**? That is, that the results will show messages with *either* 'TagA' or 'TagB'?

So for years I have not found a way to export a clean output of results collected in the macOS Console app I primarily want to save my results in the same format as the data is organized in the console app I would be so grateful. Saving them as plain text is unorganized and messy. - There was one app years ago that I forgot the name of that was an alternative to console and let you export neat organize files, but I can't find it anymore. Are there apps or tricks to help with this - especially on macOS Ventura?

I've got some weird beeps coming intermittently from my computer, and I don't know what is causing them. Several minutes passed between each occurrence, and they've only happened twice so far, so troubleshooting by turning off apps and menu helpers could take a long time, and might be fruitless. I looked for something in one of the logs in the Console app, but I didn't see anything. Is there any way to detect or lookup in a log what app sent alert noises? Is there any central point in the OS that controls this? If it is not possible to do this after the fact, would it be possible to create an app that monitors and logs this information, for just this situation? ### Update ### I'm using a MacBook Air (M1, 2020) running macOS 12.6. When I said "I don't know what is causing them", I don't mean that I don't know the _physical_ origin of the sound waves. They are unquestionably coming from the speakers. (Rather they were. They have not recurred since posting this question--which is why troubleshooting would be extremely difficult.) I mean that I don't know the app that is causing them.