Leopard, why can’t you behave?
The latest in my epic struggle with Leopard. Now, on my Mini!
Apparently Time Machine in 10.5.2 does not like my Intel Mac Mini environment. At the time of posting, I only found one other reference to my latest Leopard error: “Backupd Waiting for index to be ready.” I’m hoping that there will be more…
For the record, here’s what I was seeing for 18+ hours in my console:
2/12/08 11:12:27 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Backup requested by user
2/12/08 11:12:27 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Starting standard backup
2/12/08 11:12:27 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Backing up to: /Volumes/External Backup HD/Backups.backupdb
2/12/08 11:12:27 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Event store UUIDs don’t match for volume: Macintosh HD
2/12/08 11:12:27 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Backup content size: 45.2 GB excluded items size: 7.0 MB for volume Macintosh HD
2/12/08 11:12:27 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] No pre-backup thinning needed: 54.26 GB requested (including padding), 60.98 GB available
2/12/08 11:12:27 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (909 > 0)
2/12/08 11:12:32 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:12:40 PM kernel jnl: disk2s6: flushing fs disk buffer returned 0x5
2/12/08 11:12:42 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:12:57 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:13:17 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:13:42 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:14:12 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:14:42 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:14:43 PM /usr/sbin/ocspd[222] starting
2/12/08 11:15:12 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:15:14 PM kernel jnl: disk2s6: flushing fs disk buffer returned 0x5
2/12/08 11:15:42 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:16:12 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:16:42 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:17:12 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:17:42 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:18:12 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:18:42 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:19:12 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[212] Waiting for index to be ready (906 > 0)
2/12/08 11:19:18 PM kernel jnl: disk2s6: flushing fs disk buffer returned 0x5
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I’ve removed the following files and spotlight is now correctly indexing my drive. (Note: clearly these all aren’t necessary, but these are the ones I removed.)
mini:LaCie Disk 2 dfbills$ ls -al
total 15280
drwxr-xr-x@ 27 dfbills dfbills 986 Feb 14 12:11 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 9 root admin 306 Feb 14 18:30 ..
-r———— 1 root wheel 16 Feb 14 08:40 .0016cba6220b
drwx——— 4 root dfbills 136 Feb 14 12:11 .Spotlight-V100
drwxrwxrwt@ 3 dfbills dfbills 102 Jan 29 08:56 .TemporaryItems
-rw-r—r— 1 dfbills dfbills 250 Oct 27 22:15 .apdisk
-rw-r—r— 1 dfbills dfbills 0 Oct 26 21:47 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
drwx——— 278 dfbills dfbills 9452 Feb 14 18:29 .fseventsd
-rw-rw-rw- 1 dfbills dfbills 0 Jan 25 01:54 .metadata_never_index
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 dfbills dfbills 68 Nov 7 2006 Trash
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I spoke to Apple support about this issue and they suggested the following course of action:
1. Disable Time Machine
2. Delete the Spotlight index on the external drive
3. Allow Spotlight to rebuild the index
4. Re-activate Time Machine
I haven’t had a chance to try it yet.