Time machine osx 10.6.8 problem slow backupd CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary. mdworker32 kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.

Question

Hello Guys I have a problem that I can not get to the bottom.
Time Machine has suddenly stopped working it really slow to make up. Copy a few kb at a time and long hours it takes to close the back. (up to a few tens of megs, 10, 20 Mb).
I made ​​the following list of tests that will follow along with the log file.
First of all I made ​​a copy as root with Carbon Copy Cloner disk of the iMac. (So that they can go back in case of disaster)
Following the guides Pondini (pondini.org) I did the following steps:
1) Changed the internfaccia FW800 to USB hard drive (does not change anything, still slow)
2) Changed to another external HD for time machine with FW800 and USB (nothing changes still slow)
3) Recreated the full backup with Time Machine on either drive (still slow)
4) Reinstalled the 10.6.8 Combo Pack (still slow)
5) Re spootlight indexed with the disk (still slow)
6) At this point, in desperation I reinstalled on the internal drive of my iMac 10.6.8 creating a new user, User Migration Assistant from my hd clone with Carbon Copy Cloner. Recreated the full backup with Time Machine.
The first full backup is fast, but slow incremental backups are back (as to 'start a few kb at a time).
I compared the log files with those of my other machine with same configuration and I found these errors:
backupdir [19376]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData (): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
mdworker32 [20950]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint () to catch errors logged as They Are.
You know help me? I saw that this error is from 10.5 to 10.7, but no one has found a real solution to the issue.
I never installed antivirus software and tried with different external drives COPN capacity equal to or greater than the external drive. Only at the end I tried to divide the external drive to back up into two parts by a 1.5 TB and 500 GB but with the same mistakes that I have described.
thanks
Stefano
Ciao  Ragazzi ho un problema a cui non riesco a venire a capo.
improvvisamente time machine ha smesso di funzionare va veramente lento a fare backup. Copia pochi kb alla volta e impiega tanto tempo ore per chiudere il backup. (backup di poche decine di mega, 10, 20 Mb).
Ho effettuato le seguenti prove che vi elenco di seguito insieme al file log.
Prima di tutto ho fatto una copia  come utente root con Carbon Copy cloner del disco del imac.(in maniera tale di poter tornare indietro in caso di disastro)
Seguendo le guide di Pondini (pondini.org) ho effettuato i seguenti passaggi:
1) Cambiato internfaccia del disco rigido da FW800 a USB (non cambia nulla, sempre lento)
2) Cambiato hd esterno con un altro per time machine con FW800 e USB (non cambia nulla sempre lento)
3) Ricreato il full Backup con time machine su entrambe i dischi (sempre lento)
4) Reinstallato il Combo pack 10.6.8 (sempre lento)
5) Re indicizzato con spootlight il disco (sempre lento)
6) A questo punto preso dalla disperazione ho reinstallato sul disco interno del mio imac il 10.6.8 creando un nuovo utente, Assistente migrazione utente dal mio hd clonato con Carbon copy cloner. Ricreato il backup completo con time machine.
Il primo full backup è veloce, ma i backup incrementali sono tornati lentissimi (come all' inizio pochi kb alla volta).
Ho confrontato il file log con quelli di un mio altro mac con la stessa configurazione ed ho trovato questi errori:
backupd[19376]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
mdworker32[20950]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Sapete darmi aiuto? Ho visto che questo errore è presente dal 10.5 al 10.7 ma nessuno ha trovato una vera soluzione alla questione.
Non ho mai installato software antivirus ed ho provato con diversi dischi esterni copn capacità uguale o superiore al disco esterno. Solo alla fine ho provato a dividere il disco esterno del backup in due parti una da 1,5TB e una da 500 Gb ma con i medesimi errori che vi ho descritto.
grazie
Stefano
File LOG:
Jan  9 00:31:37 ihomez newsyslog[19803]: logfile turned over
Jan  9 00:33:26 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Copied 534.0 GB of 1020.2 GB, 649387 of 1786353 items
Jan  9 01:33:27 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Copied 728.3 GB of 1020.2 GB, 805293 of 1786353 items
Jan  9 02:33:27 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Copied 938.5 GB of 1020.2 GB, 807979 of 1786353 items
Jan  9 02:55:58 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Copied 808871 files (1012.7 GB) from volume i5 2TB.
Jan  9 03:08:03 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 383.44 GB available
Jan  9 03:10:13 ihomez backupd[19376]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan  9 03:27:54 ihomez [0x0-0x12012].com.getdropbox.dropbox[0]: Sampling process 12446 for 5 seconds with 10 milliseconds of run time between samples
Jan  9 03:27:59 ihomez [0x0-0x12012].com.getdropbox.dropbox[0]: Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Jan  9 03:28:00 ihomez mds[19366]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
Jan  9 03:28:00 ihomez [0x0-0x12012].com.getdropbox.dropbox[0]: Sample analysis of process 12446 written to file /Users/home/.dropbox/s4f0a50aa
Jan  9 03:33:30 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Copied 717781 files (13.0 MB) from volume i5 2TB.
Jan  9 04:06:38 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jan  9 04:06:38 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jan  9 04:06:39 ihomez com.apple.backupd[19376]: Backup completed successfully.
Jan  9 04:33:45 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Starting standard backup
Jan  9 04:33:46 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machime LA/Backups.backupdb
Jan  9 04:33:46 ihomez mds[19366]: (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
Jan  9 04:40:18 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 382.47 GB available
Jan  9 04:59:25 ihomez backupd[20287]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan  9 05:31:48 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Copied 720482 files (13.0 MB) from volume i5 2TB.
Jan  9 05:45:22 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 381.98 GB available
Jan  9 06:05:14 ihomez backupd[20287]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan  9 06:32:57 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Copied 12.7 MB of 12.7 MB, 538084 of 538084 items
Jan  9 06:36:52 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Copied 717781 files (12.7 MB) from volume i5 2TB.
Jan  9 08:12:05 ihomez mds[19366]: (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /
Jan  9 08:12:30 ihomez System Preferences[20910]: Preference bundle "/Users/home/Library/PreferencePanes/Archives.prefPane" is misplaced, ignoring...
Jan  9 08:12:32 ihomez System Preferences[20910]: Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio:  dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHD Audio, 262): no suitable image found.  Did find:\n    /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
Jan  9 08:12:32 ihomez System Preferences[20910]: Cannot find function pointer NewPlugIn for factory C5A4CE5B-0BB8-11D8-9D75-0003939615B6 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x20056cb80 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)
Jan  9 08:23:40 ihomez mdworker[20945]: Error, could not create MachMessagePort for com.apple.AddressBook.abd
Jan  9 08:23:46 ihomez mdworker32[20948]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan  9 08:23:52 ihomez mdworker32[20950]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan  9 08:30:47 ihomez com.apple.Finder[225]: Failed to send message to backup server: error = -2
Jan  9 08:30:41 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jan  9 08:30:49 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jan  9 08:30:51 ihomez com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1001017c0.mach_init.mdworker[20949]): Exited: Killed
Jan  9 08:35:39 ihomez mdworker[20959]: (Normal) Import: Spotlight giving up on importing file /Users/home/Desktop/testdisk-6.11.3/recupero/recup_dir.34/f2515784.abcdp after 240.256 seconds, 239.841 seconds of which was spent in the Spotlight importer plugin.
Jan  9 08:35:39 ihomez com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1001017c0.mach_init.mdworker[20959]): Exited with exit code: 75
Jan  9 08:36:55 ihomez com.apple.backupd[20287]: Backup completed successfully.
Jan  9 08:37:17 ihomez mdworker32[20974]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan  9 08:39:36 ihomez mdworker[20969]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan  9 08:41:09 ihomez mdworker[20969]: Corrupt JPEG data: 10053 extraneous bytes before marker 0xed
Jan  9 08:41:37 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[20969]: zip importer encountered an error (3) scanning "/Users/home/Downloads/Griffin Seconda serie.zip".
Jan  9 08:45:44 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[20969]: FontImporter: Validation failed - "/Users/home/Library/Fonts Disabled/MT Extra".
Jan  9 08:45:44 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[20969]: FontImporter: Validation Result - "<CFArray 0x10204f310 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{type = mutable-small, count = 5, values = (\n    0 : <CFString 0x102762af8 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityInformation"}\n    1 : <CFString 0x102762b18 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityTechnicalError"}\n    2 : <CFString 0x102762b58 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityMajorError"}\n    3 : <CFString 0x102762b78 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityFatalError"}\n    4 : <CFString 0x102762b38 [0x7fff70eaeee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityMinorError"}\n)}".
Jan  9 08:45:55 ihomez mdworker[20969]: Error, could not create MachMessagePort for com.apple.AddressBook.abd
Jan  9 08:46:09 ihomez mdworker[20969]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan  9 09:03:32 ihomez mdworker[21011]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan  9 09:04:02: --- last message repeated 5 times ---
Jan  9 09:05:15 ihomez mdworker[20969]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan  9 09:05:43 ihomez mdworker32[21036]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan  9 09:05:44 ihomez mdworker[20969]: iCal.mdimporter: could not parse ICS file: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/EntourageCore.framework/Versions/12/Resources/it.lproj/Timezones.ic s
Jan  9 09:13:28 ihomez mdworker32[21053]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan  9 09:16:17 ihomez mdworker32[21074]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan  9 09:33:45 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Starting standard backup
Jan  9 09:33:46 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machime LA/Backups.backupdb
Jan  9 09:40:46 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 381.68 GB available
Jan  9 09:57:57 ihomez backupd[21102]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan  9 10:29:58 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Copied 718890 files (12.9 MB) from volume i5 2TB.
Jan  9 10:43:35 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 381.48 GB available
Jan  9 11:02:16 ihomez backupd[21102]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan  9 11:31:08 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Copied 12.7 MB of 12.7 MB, 642967 of 642967 items
Jan  9 11:33:07 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Copied 716189 files (12.7 MB) from volume i5 2TB.
Jan  9 13:26:26 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Backup deletion was canceled by user
Jan  9 13:26:26 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jan  9 13:26:27 ihomez com.apple.backupd[21102]: Backup completed successfully.

Answer 1

Thanks for the quick response.
I followed the steps you listed and also remove the files that were creating problems spootlight, including the audio plugin and the panel preferences file.
Then I stopped by the timemachine reindexed spootlight 'option in the preferences panel spootight privacy. After I restarted my iMac and formatted the external drive again, Time Machine and restarting a full backup. This morning after a quick full backup and disk indexing completed incremental backups are always slow. Proceeds with a few kb at a time. I resend you the log files and screen capture. My iMac is constantly backed up.
Thank you for your time.
Stefano
File log:
Jan 10 00:30:05 ihomez newsyslog[757]: logfile turned over
Jan 10 00:43:30 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sampling process 278 for 5 seconds with 10 milliseconds of run time between samples
Jan 10 00:43:35 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Jan 10 00:43:35 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sample analysis of process 278 written to file /Users/home/.dropbox/s4f0b7ba2
Jan 10 00:44:08 ihomez mdworker32[805]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 01:00:51 ihomez mdworker[579]: -[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] Can't ABACQUIRE_FILE_LOCK /SourceCache/AddressBook/AddressBook-883/Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m: 3314
Jan 10 01:04:41 ihomez osascript[897]: Initializer-based scripting additions have been deprecated. Please update this addition: "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/QXPScriptingAdditions.osax"
Jan 10 01:07:56 ihomez mdworker32[930]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 01:08:01 ihomez mdworker32[931]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 01:09:44 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 94.7 GB of 990.4 GB, 506176 of 1771170 items
Jan 10 01:13:34 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sampling process 278 for 5 seconds with 10 milliseconds of run time between samples
Jan 10 01:13:39 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Jan 10 01:13:39 ihomez [0x0-0xe00e].com.getdropbox.dropbox[278]: Sample analysis of process 278 written to file /Users/home/.dropbox/s4f0b82ad
Jan 10 01:14:19 ihomez mdworker32[946]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 01:20:02 ihomez mdworker32[969]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 02:00:16 ihomez mdworker32[1025]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 02:09:44 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 316.2 GB of 990.4 GB, 530801 of 1771170 items
Jan 10 02:10:51 ihomez mdworker32[1052]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 02:11:00 ihomez mdworker[937]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan 10 02:15:01 ihomez mdworker[937]: Corrupt JPEG data: 10053 extraneous bytes before marker 0xed
Jan 10 02:15:37 ihomez mdworker32[1063]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 02:30:55 ihomez mdworker32[1098]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 02:38:32 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[937]: FontImporter: Validation failed - "/Users/home/Library/Fonts Disabled/MT Extra".
Jan 10 02:38:32 ihomez /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker[937]: FontImporter: Validation Result - "<CFArray 0x10256a570 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{type = mutable-small, count = 5, values = (\n    0 : <CFString 0x104eb5af8 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityInformation"}\n    1 : <CFString 0x104eb5b18 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityTechnicalError"}\n    2 : <CFString 0x104eb5b58 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityMajorError"}\n    3 : <CFString 0x104eb5b78 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityFatalError"}\n    4 : <CFString 0x104eb5b38 [0x7fff70e20ee0]>{contents = "kATSFontTestSeverityMinorError"}\n)}".
Jan 10 02:38:55 ihomez mdworker[937]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan 10 02:38:56 ihomez mdworker32[1115]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jan 10 03:09:44 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 517.9 GB of 990.4 GB, 651137 of 1771170 items
Jan 10 04:09:45 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 723.7 GB of 990.4 GB, 787449 of 1771170 items
Jan 10 05:09:46 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 947.2 GB of 990.4 GB, 789860 of 1771170 items
Jan 10 05:20:55 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 790597 files (982.2 GB) from volume i5 2TB.
Jan 10 05:32:32 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.60 GB requested (including padding), 873.52 GB available
Jan 10 05:33:14 ihomez mdworker[1452]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan 10 05:35:07: --- last message repeated 5 times ---
Jan 10 05:35:36 ihomez backupd[479]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan 10 05:35:45 ihomez mdworker[1475]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
Jan 10 05:59:42 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Copied 699486 files (1.9 MB) from volume i5 2TB.
Jan 10 06:34:52 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jan 10 06:34:52 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jan 10 06:34:52 ihomez com.apple.backupd[479]: Backup completed successfully.
Jan 10 07:10:09 ihomez com.apple.backupd[1752]: Starting standard backup
Jan 10 07:10:09 ihomez com.apple.backupd[1752]: Backing up to: /Volumes/TimeMachine LA/Backups.backupdb