Spotlight crashes from API misuse

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In the last couple of days I have seen problems with Spotlight where it closes the search window after a random amount of keystrokes. Today I found more than 20 crash dumps and the funny thing is the share a common trait, namely this information string:

XPC API Misuse: Release of last reference on a suspended connection.

When I open the crash logs they all have the same top part of the crash log:

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        6  Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Illegal instruction: 4
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x4
Terminating Process:   exc handler [0]

Application Specific Information:
XPC API Misuse: Release of last reference on a suspended connection.

Application Specific Signatures:
API Misuse

I have tried a number of searches but not found anything that explains, nor helps me with this. Any ideas, anyone?

spotlight macos
2 Answers

This problem seems to be more related to Safari 12 than Spotlight in itself. If I turn off the indexing option in Spotlight for "Bookmarks and history" the problem disappears; if I leave it on Spotlight keeps crashing randomly when entering characters in the search box.

user_442230

I had the same issue on macOS Sierra. It started after Safari was updated to version 12. I found a workaround by disabling a QuickLook plug-in.

You have to disable the SIP (System Integry Protection) first. After that you can rename the folder 

/System/Library/QuickLook/Clippings.qlgenerator

to

/System/Library/QuickLook/Clippings.qlgenerator.old

Then you force reload the quicklook generators list with this command in a terminal window 

qlmanage -r

You can now enable the SIP

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