Fully updated MBP

Fully updated MBP Spotlight crashes

All of a sudden I am getting Spotlight crashes, I've only got to type a couple of letters and it crashes.

I've rebooted and repaired permissions so far - also no hardware changes for several weeks.

Extract from report:

Interval Since Last Report: 134 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 136 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Date/Time: 2009-07-12 15:03:43.967 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.7 (9J61)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: F9D1401C-BA69-43CB-8750-21AE3DD84AD8

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 4

Any 'common faults' I can look at?

you could try downloading MainMenu, a fantastic maintenance app. One of its abilities is to rebuild the spotlight database

MainMenu | Keep your Mac in shape

I'm trying it as we 'speak' so I'll let you know how it goes - thanks louishen.

Crash report

No luck, it's still crashing. Full text of crash (now for about the 20th time):

Process: Spotlight [319]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotlight
Identifier: com.apple.spotlight
Version: 10.5 (398.25)
Build Info: Spotlight-3982500~1
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [143]

Interval Since Last Report: 134 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 136 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Date/Time: 2009-07-12 15:03:43.967 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.7 (9J61)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: F9D1401C-BA69-43CB-8750-21AE3DD84AD8

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 4

Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b2c286 mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b33a7c mach_msg + 72
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9303c04e CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1790
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9303cc78 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88
4 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x90e2b28c RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283
5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x90e2b0a5 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x90e2af19 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 106
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x923fad0d _DPSNextEvent + 657
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x923fa5c0 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x923f35fb -[NSApplication run] + 795
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x923c0834 NSApplicationMain + 574
11 com.apple.spotlight 0x0000276e 0x1000 + 5998

Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b3346e __semwait_signal + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b5ddcd pthread_cond_wait$UNIX2003 + 73
2 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x92cada09 fe_fragment_thread + 54
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b5d155 _pthread_start + 321
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b5d012 thread_start + 34

Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b95292 __workq_ops + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b952c2 start_wqthread + 30

Thread 3:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b37836 open$UNIX2003 + 10
1 com.apple.Metadata 0x91181dfc __newAttr + 221
2 com.apple.spotlight 0x0000babd 0x1000 + 43709
3 com.apple.spotlight 0x0000bb2a 0x1000 + 43818
4 com.apple.spotlight 0x0000ff46 0x1000 + 61254
5 com.apple.spotlight 0x00036e28 0x1000 + 220712
6 com.apple.Foundation 0x945897f4 -[NSOperation start] + 772
7 com.apple.Foundation 0x945894e2 __runop + 34
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b9540f _pthread_wqthread + 331
9 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b952c2 start_wqthread + 30

Thread 4 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9305b90f CFStringGetCharacters + 63
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9307f6a8 _CFCompareStringsWithLocale + 7240
2 ??? 0x00720070 0 + 7471216

Thread 5:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b3346e __semwait_signal + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b33236 usleep$UNIX2003 + 61
2 com.apple.AppKit 0x92461229 -[NSUIHeartBeat _heartBeatThread:] + 2042
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x944f8e0d -[NSThread main] + 45
4 com.apple.Foundation 0x944f89b4 __NSThread__main__ + 308
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b5d155 _pthread_start + 321
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x95b5d012 thread_start + 34

Thread 4 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0xa03cc4ec ebx: 0x9305b8e1 ecx: 0xb022e9f4 edx: 0x00000007
edi: 0x000000d4 esi: 0x00000000 ebp: 0xb022e8e8 esp: 0xb022e890
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010283 eip: 0x9305b90f cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000000

Any thoughts out there from 'clever' people?

Right - just in case this happens to anyone else.

The only way I sorted this out was a re-installation of OSX which I felt would be good. Frankly, I'm not sure it was necessary. It crashed again

What I did then was remove and replace the memory sticks swapping their slots.

I then removed all Spotlight preferences just to see if the application would run.

I then re-installed the preferences, small group at a time.

At time of writing, all works nicely again - heaven knows what caused that, because I don't.

That was my first 'problem' with my Mac, which compared with my PCs is 'reasonable' in 17 months.