Goooooooood Morning %%YourLocation%%

hello bmike

hello bmike :)

Hi everyone

hey there :)

Yes. that is something very interesting here

How do you put questions like this in a chat? Is it a screenshot?

The software one boxes things it knows about. Twitter, youtube, and of course site links get the fancy treatment.

@TheBro21 Knock yourself out in chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1/sandbox

@Stophface I'd delete all the diagnostic logs (you can leave them in trash if you're not sure you won't need one later)

bmike do you have any ideas what might cause the problem=

all the files with .diag ending?

Then turn off all networking (BT/WF) and reboot.

or the .crash ones?

@Stophface empty the folders... (leave the folders, but you can safely delete all the log files in the two DiagnosticReports section as long as you reboot once they are in the trash bin)

I'd save work in anything you have open if it's important (thesis, paper, music composition)

@bmike okay. I deleted the content of the folder. I reboot without wifi, turn it on then and meet you back here again

@bmike woho, 15 new .crash files already!

ok - give it 5 minutes with no network.

and when you reboot, you can clean out any files from before the problem

they can be sorted by time easily.

yup - your Mac is quite sad at the moment. Good thing you're going to get it fixed up soon

@bmike i rebooted with turned of wifi and the reportcrash process popped up straight away

brb...

@bmike I emptied the folder "Diagnostic Reports" completely before I rebooted. Now there are already 20 crash reports in it

@bmike and a NotificationCenter_2015-06-01-153021_Admins-MacBook-Pro.spin

Also - consider turning off diagnostic submission and doing a second - turn off all network and reboot.

(click lock, then deselect the two items shown)

It crashes when I try to open that "Security and Privacy"

@bmike Well I can open "Security and Privacy" but not the tab "Privacy".

@bmike but as soon as I try to click something in "Security and Privacy" the colored ball comes up and the whole "preferences panel" crashes

@Stophface OK - dig up the Apple support article about booting in safe mode.

Basically you'll reboot and hold shift down until the apple appears then let go of shift

You are getting closer to the fire now

soon the problem will have no where to hide and we'll know what to do next

@bmike I tried that already. It crashes too

I did a PRAM reset as well - but that did not do the trick neither.

@bmike well I could reboot in safe mode, but not access the preferences... I crashed too

@bmike Someome replaced my locationd?!

@Stophface OK - when the mac crashes in safe mode, you need to make a backup and then try reinstalling the OS. It won't by design delete user files, but at this point, you're not sure the Mac is working and the reinstall can "fix the disk" by deleting faulty files including ones you care to keep.

Hopefully it's not a hardware problem. Reinstall is often easiest using recovery mode. Apple has good articles on how to do that if you aren't finding a good question on the site to explain how to reinstall your OS of choice.

@bmike would it be a good idea to replace the locationd file with one I have on a backup?

@bmike since that file causes the problem I guess?

@Stophface Probably a waste of time, but if you want to just to see if you can - it won't harm things anymore. Especially once you have that backup of any critical files done.

It's a "waste of time" in that, if that file is corrupt, what else got corrupt.

@bmike so it might be smartest to use a backup when I have not used location services?

@bmike a couple of days ago i used some sort of "where is my location" oin google chrome. I guess thats when the trouble started. If I have a backup from before then, it might be smartest to use that one?

@Stophface yes

@bmike I will do that tonight... Got to work now. Is it bad that the computer becomes very hot though?!

It's good it's hot.

kk

The CPU running that much needs to get the heat out or the CPU would damage itself. As long as the blower is running, you won't harm things.

okay

thanks for sticking with me

I thought I got a mac to not have these kind of problems

seems to me that since I updated in 10.10 there is more work from the user required to keep the system running...

If you want to delete the locationd executable, that might calm things down to work today

should have stayed on 10.7 :)

I will try and rename it once my script I have running in the background finished

and then i reboot

that might to already the trick

heh - good luck

thanks :)

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