[chasg]

I noticed that ReportCrash was taking a lot of cycles, so I looked into the Console logs, and locationd is constantly crashing.

I tried to turn off location services in the System Prefs, and it just turns right back on.

Any suggestions as to what I can do? location itself isn't taking any cycles, but ReportCrash is taking about 50% CPU capacity.

Any suggestions as to how I can disable/remove/fix? Happy go to in and remove prefs files etc, just not sure if it'll cause any problems.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Chas

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Here is a Console log (up to Thread 0):

Process: locationd [4565]
Path: /usr/libexec/locationd
Identifier: locationd
Version: 1615.24
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Responsible: locationd [4565]
User ID: 205

Date/Time: 2015-09-30 12:59:49.892 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.5 (14F27)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: 9BA029B0-5EA6-BF3D-A3B9-C6113620961A


Time Awake Since Boot: 8800 seconds

Crashed Thread: 7 Dispatch queue: CLFenceManagerSilo

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000

VM Regions Near 0:
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__TEXT 000000010dcd6000-000000010e11b000 [ 4372K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /usr/libexec/locationd

Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff93cd4af6 __getpid + 6
1 libsystem_asl.dylib 0x00007fff8bb8f75e _asl_send_message + 399
2 libsystem_asl.dylib 0x00007fff8bb8ed7f _asl_lib_vlog + 503
3 libsystem_asl.dylib 0x00007fff8bb8eb79 asl_vlog + 53
4 libsystem_asl.dylib 0x00007fff8bba102f vsyslog + 172
5 locationd 0x000000010de55766 0x10dcd6000 + 1570662
6 locationd 0x000000010dd279c2 0x10dcd6000 + 334274
7 locationd 0x000000010dd00019 0x10dcd6000 + 172057
8 locationd 0x000000010dd001be 0x10dcd6000 + 172478
9 locationd 0x000000010dd078c2 0x10dcd6000 + 202946
10 locationd 0x000000010dd0658b 0x10dcd6000 + 198027
11 locationd 0x000000010dcda17a 0x10dcd6000 + 16762
12 locationd 0x000000010dcda974 0x10dcd6000 + 18804
13 locationd 0x000000010dcfe747 0x10dcd6000 + 165703
14 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff8bf185c9 start + 1

[Mike Wuerthele]

Hm, this is the first I've heard of a LocationD crash. I'll look into it a bit later today.

[chasg]

Cool, any insights would be greatly appreciated! I can post a full Console log, if it would help.

[chasg]

Just fyi: I found and deleted com.apple.locationd.plist, seems to have stopped the crashing cycle (well, at least ReportCrash has stopped running).

I'm going to upgrade to El Capitan tomorrow, so I'm very glad that this issue has stopped being one.