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?
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.