Mojave Beta 4: assistantd continuously crashing.

Hi,


since updating to the beta 4 of Mojave (18A336e), I get continuous crashes from assistantd. The crash window pops up every 10 sec.


Anyone getting that as well? Workarounds?

Filed it as rdar://42418888


Process:               assistantd [10129]
Path:                  /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AssistantServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/assistantd
Identifier:            assistantd
Version:               1.0 (1)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           assistantd [10129]
User ID:               502


Date/Time:             2018-07-24 08:25:53.572 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.14 (18A336e)
Report Version:        12
Bridge OS Version:     3.0 (14Y664)
Anonymous UUID:        6C15C273-DC47-BAF2-EC41-835CB4A28303


Sleep/Wake UUID:       48CFE664-8280-4925-8E6C-CA3D748B6585


Time Awake Since Boot: 38000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       420 seconds


System Integrity Protection: enabled


Crashed Thread:        3  Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.background-qos


Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY


Application Specific Information:
dyld3 mode
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[__NSDictionaryM setObject:forKey:]: object cannot be nil (key: NSFilePath)'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called


Application Specific Backtrace 1:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff3fa6393b __exceptionPreprocess + 256
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff6ba3ea18 objc_exception_throw + 48
2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff3fa9a734 _CFThrowFormattedException + 202
3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff3f996337 -[__NSDictionaryM setObject:forKey:] + 930
4   AddressBookCore                     0x00007fff4fcb1c0a -[ABProcessSharedLock errorUserInfoWithDescription:] + 195
5   AddressBookCore                     0x00007fff4fcb0fd0 __36-[ABProcessSharedLock openLockFile:]_block_invoke.55 + 70
6   AddressBookCore                     0x00007fff4fd123d9 __ABMakeErrorHelper_block_invoke_2 + 15
7   AddressBookCore                     0x00007fff4fcb0edf -[ABProcessSharedLock openLockFile:] + 249
8   AddressBookCore                     0x00007fff4fcb0ccd -[ABProcessSharedLock open:] + 63
9   AddressBookCore                     0x00007fff4fd05e2f +[ABAddressBook initializeFileLock] + 136
10  AddressBookCore                     0x00007fff4fd05d74 -[ABAddressBook nts_InitDefaultContactManager] + 157
11  AddressBookCore                     0x00007fff4fcf54fb +[ABAddressBook nts_SharedAddressBook] + 86
12  AddressBookCore                     0x00007fff4fcf58e8 +[ABAddressBook nts_CreateSharedAddressBook] + 48
13  AddressBookCore                     0x00007fff4fcf5cc2 +[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] + 82
14  Contacts                            0x00007fff3f28f7f1 __28+[CNContactStore initialize]_block_invoke_2 + 24
15  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff6c9f4302 _dispatch_block_async_invoke2 + 83
16  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff6c9e8961 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
17  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff6c9f6be7 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 671
18  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff6c9f7232 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 90
19  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff6cc26576 _pthread_wqthread + 623
20  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff6cc26299 start_wqthread + 13


Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib         0x00007fff6cb80a86 mach_msg_trap + 10
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib         0x00007fff6cb7ff8c mach_msg + 60
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x00007fff3f9f6d71 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 337
3   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x00007fff3f9f620f __CFRunLoopRun + 1654
4   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x00007fff3f9f5981 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 463
5   com.apple.Foundation           0x00007fff41dee795 -[NSRunLoop(NSRunLoop) runMode:beforeDate:] + 280
6   com.apple.Foundation           0x00007fff41dee66a -[NSRunLoop(NSRunLoop) run] + 76
7   assistantd                     0x000000010055f747 0x100553000 + 51015
8   assistantd                     0x000000010055f10f 0x100553000 + 49423
9   libdyld.dylib                 0x00007fff6ca20ed4 0x7fff6ca20000 + 3796


Thread 1:
0   libsystem_pthread.dylib       0x00007fff6cc2628c start_wqthread + 0
1   ???                           0x0000000054485244 0 + 1414025796


Thread 2:
0   libsystem_pthread.dylib       0x00007fff6cc2628c start_wqthread + 0
1   ???                           0x0000000054485244 0 + 1414025796


Thread 3 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.background-qos
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib         0x00007fff6cb8aa06 __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib       0x00007fff6cc28bc8 pthread_kill + 285
2   libsystem_c.dylib             0x00007fff6cadd141 abort + 127
3   libc++abi.dylib               0x00007fff6a2378f1 abort_message + 231
4   libc++abi.dylib               0x00007fff6a237a9b default_terminate_handler() + 271
5   libobjc.A.dylib               0x00007fff6ba40f9b _objc_terminate() + 97
6   libc++abi.dylib               0x00007fff6a2447d2 std::__terminate(void (*)()) + 8
7   libc++abi.dylib               0x00007fff6a244853 std::terminate() + 51
8   libdispatch.dylib             0x00007fff6c9e8975 _dispatch_client_callout + 28
9   libdispatch.dylib             0x00007fff6c9f6be7 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 671
10  libdispatch.dylib             0x00007fff6c9f7232 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 90
11  libsystem_pthread.dylib       0x00007fff6cc26576 _pthread_wqthread + 623
12  libsystem_pthread.dylib       0x00007fff6cc26299 start_wqthread + 13

Why haven't you installed Beta 5?

This issue has been fixed in Mojave Beta 5 (18A347e). Initial message was posted when Beta 4 was the most recent version.

Mojave Beta 4: assistantd continuously crashing.
 
 
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