Yosemite spotlight issue : Couldn't add Spotlight Metadata Privacy password to keychain

Hi,
I get many error messages from spotlight mdwrite of this type : -[MDKeyRing initWithService:label:comment:] (/SourceCache/Spotlight/Spotlight-917.1/xpc-services/mdwrite/MDKeyRing.m:294) failed assertion -- Couldn't add Spotlight Metadata Privacy password to keychain!
For information, I already reindexed everything by running mdutils commands.
I am also experiencing many bugs with Mail searches and saving multiple Mail attachments, and I think this is related since this mdwrite bug always appear in the log with the corresponding actions with Mail (such as save attachments).
Could anyone help?
Best,
Laurent

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