My macOS High Sierra system is increasingly slowing to a crawl and having huge spikes in CPU usage, notably in Messages, but even when it not running.
The logs that seem to be most closely associated with the errors I'm getting are listed below (filtered for "contacts" and "errors" in the Console app). But that's as far as I've gotten after hours of sleuthing.
FWIW: Though I have many "internet accounts" enabled (and more disabled), I only use contacts from iCloud. No other accounts are used for contacts.
What could be causing this and how do I fix it?
Note that I also had what appears to be related errors of the form
localhost AppleSpell[46481]: (CoreData) [com.apple.coredata:error] error: -addPersistentStoreWithType:SQLite configuration:(null) URL:file:///var/db/CoreDuet/People//interactionC.db options:{
NSInferMappingModelAutomaticallyOption = 0;
NSMigratePersistentStoresAutomaticallyOption = 0;
NSReadOnlyPersistentStoreOption = 1;
} ... returned error Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=257 "The file couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it." with userInfo dictionary {
}
which I simply eliminated with
sudo chmod o+r /private/var/db/CoreDuet/PeopleinteractionC.*
(which I assume is safe?); but that seems to have had no effect.
Key errors that seem to be involved in triggering the error cascade and CPU ramp up are (in no order):
error 10:33:34.557880 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 10:33:39.558575 -0500 mds ====^^^^ QUERY CLIENT _showAllExtensions:0
error 10:33:34.607541 -0500 accountsd "Cannot check access to a private account type: com.apple.account.AppleAccount"
error 10:34:00.567089 -0500 Mail [AOSAccounts] : [ACAccount+iCloudAccount] : -[ACAccount(iCloudAccount) icaCloudKitToken] - icaCloudKitToken cannot be returned as account is still not vetted!
error 10:33:50.189500 -0500 Messages error: API Misuse: Attempt to serialize store access on non-owning coordinator (PSC = 0x600002c79c80, store PSC = 0x0)
In addition I get occasional crashes of AppleSpell:
Process: AppleSpell [46000]
Path: /System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/MacOS/AppleSpell
Identifier: AppleSpell
Version: 2.4 (430.1)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: AppleSpell [46000]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2018-01-20 10:42:36.335 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.13.2 (17C205)
Report Version: 12
Time Awake Since Boot: 210000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 6700 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread: 4 Dispatch queue: com.apple.eventkit.eventstore.backingobjects
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000007fca4a08190
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [0]
VM Regions Near 0x7fca4a08190:
SQLite page cache 00000001196c4000-0000000119744000 [ 512K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV
-->
STACK GUARD 000070000c046000-000070000c047000 [ 4K] ---/rwx SM=NUL stack guard for thread 1
Application Specific Information:
objc_msgSend() selector name: respondsToSelector:
Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff6da977c2 mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff6da96cdc mach_msg + 60
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4604f355 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 341
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4604e6a7 __CFRunLoopRun + 1783
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4604dd23 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 483
5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4608c773 CFRunLoopRun + 99
6 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff4830aadd -[NSSpellServer run] + 73
7 com.apple.AppleSpell 0x0000000105388b98 0x105387000 + 7064
8 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff6d951114 0x7fff6d950000 + 4372
Example log, filtered for "contacts" and "errors" in the Console app:
error 15:22:55.776668 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:22:56.223723 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:22:56.308076 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
default 15:23:00.803149 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:23:05.890741 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
error 15:23:27.441065 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
error 15:23:51.628696 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:23:51.750564 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
default 15:23:51.757146 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:23:54.968141 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:23:55.094349 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
default 15:23:56.761515 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:24:24.784348 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
error 15:24:52.004381 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:24:52.153096 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
default 15:24:53.276190 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:24:53.275323 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:24:54.345358 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
default 15:24:57.343831 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:25:09.740347 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
error 15:25:52.345986 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:25:52.435518 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:25:52.602685 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
default 15:25:52.651438 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:25:52.793656 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:25:53.195679 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
default 15:25:58.789192 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:26:11.595438 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
error 15:26:51.177684 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:26:51.262879 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:26:51.561885 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
default 15:26:51.554447 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:26:51.675959 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:26:51.848946 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
default 15:26:57.096821 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:27:08.544743 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
error 15:27:53.683675 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:27:53.760238 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:27:54.064740 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
default 15:27:54.223637 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:27:54.232621 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:27:54.592746 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
default 15:28:00.756454 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:28:17.250338 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
error 15:28:51.156290 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:28:51.265767 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:28:51.719235 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
default 15:28:51.729694 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:28:52.456345 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
default 15:28:57.013217 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:29:11.709886 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
error 15:29:52.724254 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:29:52.875071 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
default 15:29:53.376194 -0500 fmfd There was an error while trying to load accounts. We'll return an empty array. Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.AddressBook.ContactsAccountsService was invalidated.}
error 15:29:53.402651 -0500 accountsd Could not donate contact information: Error Domain=CNDonationErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
error 15:29:53.451609 -0500 AppleSpell Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
