10.6.2 Caused an Empty Menu Bar

xXriderXx7 · Nov 10, 2009, 10:25 AM

Hi all,

I updated last night to 10.6.2 and noticed that my menu bar had all of it's icons missing, including clock, istat, etc. I re-downloaded the combo update from Apple in hopes that I just had a one-off upgrade, but no luck. Ive attached a picture to display what Im talking about.

I dont know if this matters, but I had a theme installed off of Macthemes2.net, so I uninstalled that, but the menu bar is still empty, anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
xXriderXx7

arnaudsj · Nov 10, 2009, 01:26 PM

I had not even messed with anything on SL. Just installed iStats as an add-on and that's it. Now all my system menu bar items are gone, and when going in preferences they refuse to be selected. WTF?

How many people are experiencing this?

xgman · Nov 10, 2009, 01:58 PM

From the looks of the screenshot it does seem possible to be theme related, but that is apparently not the case on the 2nd post.

1ofthedavids · Nov 10, 2009, 02:08 PM

I had this same problem yesterday and posted about it in the announcement thread. I fixed it after I remembered that I disabled the spotlight icon by modifying the Search.bundle in /System/Library/CoreServices. I reverted back to the default Search.bundle, killed and restarted the SystemUIServer from Activity Monitor, and all was well again.

There's some tutorials online that have you do this through terminal, you basically CD to the CoreServices directory, then sudo mv Search.bundle/ Search2.bundle/ and that will remove the spotlight icon after restarting the SystemUIServer. So if you've done this, I would recomment restoring the default Search.bundle and either restarting your Mac, or launch Activity Monitor and kill the SystemUIServer.

Just another thing to note. I had this exact issue, and even when I went to the System Preferences and tried to enable the clock to be shown from Date & Time, the box was unchecked, and when I tried checking it, it would immediately go back to being unchecked. The Spotlight icon modification was the only type of modification I did. I disabled every third-party item from starting up, and I don't use themes.

arnaudsj · Nov 10, 2009, 02:17 PM

Thank you this did the trick!

Now if only I could get rid of this annoying Spotlight icon (since I have disabled)

xXriderXx7 · 03:33 PM

Could someone post their default Search.bundle?

EDIT: I fixed it. I had a copy of Snow Leopard on my hard drive and opened it up with Pacifist. I found the Search.bundle folder, extracted it to my desktop, then deleted the Search2.bundle on my hard drive in System>Library>Core Services, and replaced the Search.bundle in the same directory. Then I killed SystemUIServer through Activity Monitor, and all is well!

vincentoutzen · Nov 10, 2009, 03:54 PM

hey,

could someone attach the "Search.bundle" file?
I used the revert command "sudo mv Search2.bundle/ Search.bundle/" but its still missing : /

thank you, vincent

xXriderXx7 · Nov 10, 2009, 03:58 PM

Here it is, if this is against the rules Ill take it down.

vincentoutzen · Nov 10, 2009, 04:13 PM

thank you soo much dude : )
but be careful, its the german file!

Quote:

Originally Posted by xXriderXx7

Here it is, if this is against the rules Ill take it down.

xgman · Nov 10, 2009, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vincentoutzen

thank you soo much dude : )
but be careful, its the german file!

So what does that mean? No good for eng installs?

1ofthedavids · Nov 10, 2009, 04:56 PM

Here's the full Search.bundle from my machine with all the language packages.

Glad to see this is working for everyone!

macrem · Nov 10, 2009, 05:03 PM

So SL did not cause anything, haxies did.

darkwing · Nov 10, 2009, 06:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macrem

So SL did not cause anything, haxies did.

Or rather Apple did, by forcing a wasteful and bloated service on those who don't want it.

1ofthedavids · Nov 16, 2009, 12:20 AM

FYI, if anyone wants to disable the spotlight icon, I found this tweak that does the trick and keeps the rest of the icons intact.

Launch Terminal and run the following command

sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search

Then, killall SystemUIServer and once it restarts, poof, your Spotlight Icon should be gone, but everything else should still be there.

Ezrem · Nov 16, 2009, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1ofthedavids

FYI, if anyone wants to disable the spotlight icon, I found this tweak that does the trick and keeps the rest of the icons intact.

Launch Terminal and run the following command

sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search

Then, killall SystemUIServer and once it restarts, poof, your Spotlight Icon should be gone, but everything else should still be there.

I tried that command and I still have my spotlight icon...odd...

Nov 10, 2009, 10:25 AM	#1
xXriderXx7 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Lake Elsinore, California	10.6.2 Caused an Empty Menu Bar Hi all, I updated last night to 10.6.2 and noticed that my menu bar had all of it's icons missing, including clock, istat, etc. I re-downloaded the combo update from Apple in hopes that I just had a one-off upgrade, but no luck. Ive attached a picture to display what Im talking about. I dont know if this matters, but I had a theme installed off of Macthemes2.net, so I uninstalled that, but the menu bar is still empty, anyone have any ideas? Thanks, xXriderXx7 Attached Thumbnails __________________ 17" Intel iMac, 15" Aluminum Unibody MBP MX Revolution and Apple Wired Aluminum Keyboard WD 500 GB Mybook 5G 30GB iPod, 16GB iPod Nano

Nov 10, 2009, 01:26 PM	#2
arnaudsj macrumors newbie Join Date: Apr 2004	Same thing ehre I had not even messed with anything on SL. Just installed iStats as an add-on and that's it. Now all my system menu bar items are gone, and when going in preferences they refuse to be selected. WTF? How many people are experiencing this?

Nov 10, 2009, 01:58 PM	#3
xgman macrumors 6502 Join Date: Aug 2007	From the looks of the screenshot it does seem possible to be theme related, but that is apparently not the case on the 2nd post. __________________ Mac Pro-8 core 3.2's-16GB ram-evga285-snowleopard/win7/64-Konnekt Live/Onkyo/Difinitive sound-WD Black drives-Dell3007wfp - (MBP17)(iphone 3G-S blk16gb)

Nov 10, 2009, 02:54 PM	#6
xXriderXx7 Thread Starter macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Lake Elsinore, California	Could someone post their default Search.bundle? EDIT: I fixed it. I had a copy of Snow Leopard on my hard drive and opened it up with Pacifist. I found the Search.bundle folder, extracted it to my desktop, then deleted the Search2.bundle on my hard drive in System>Library>Core Services, and replaced the Search.bundle in the same directory. Then I killed SystemUIServer through Activity Monitor, and all is well! __________________ 17" Intel iMac, 15" Aluminum Unibody MBP MX Revolution and Apple Wired Aluminum Keyboard WD 500 GB Mybook 5G 30GB iPod, 16GB iPod Nano Last edited by xXriderXx7 : Nov 10, 2009 at 03:33 PM.

Nov 10, 2009, 05:03 PM	#12
macrem macrumors 65816 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Amsterdam	So SL did not cause anything, haxies did. __________________ 15" MBP 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB@7200 \| iPod Touch Track your delivery in real-time!

Nov 10, 2009, 02:08 PM	#4
1ofthedavids macrumors regular Join Date: Jun 2009	I had this same problem yesterday and posted about it in the announcement thread. I fixed it after I remembered that I disabled the spotlight icon by modifying the Search.bundle in /System/Library/CoreServices. I reverted back to the default Search.bundle, killed and restarted the SystemUIServer from Activity Monitor, and all was well again. There's some tutorials online that have you do this through terminal, you basically CD to the CoreServices directory, then sudo mv Search.bundle/ Search2.bundle/ and that will remove the spotlight icon after restarting the SystemUIServer. So if you've done this, I would recomment restoring the default Search.bundle and either restarting your Mac, or launch Activity Monitor and kill the SystemUIServer. Just another thing to note. I had this exact issue, and even when I went to the System Preferences and tried to enable the clock to be shown from Date & Time, the box was unchecked, and when I tried checking it, it would immediately go back to being unchecked. The Spotlight icon modification was the only type of modification I did. I disabled every third-party item from starting up, and I don't use themes.

Nov 10, 2009, 02:17 PM	#5
arnaudsj macrumors newbie Join Date: Apr 2004	Thank you this did the trick! Now if only I could get rid of this annoying Spotlight icon (since I have disabled)

Nov 10, 2009, 03:54 PM	#7
vincentoutzen macrumors newbie Join Date: Nov 2009	hey, could someone attach the "Search.bundle" file? I used the revert command "sudo mv Search2.bundle/ Search.bundle/" but its still missing : / thank you, vincent

Nov 16, 2009, 12:20 AM	#14
1ofthedavids macrumors regular Join Date: Jun 2009	FYI, if anyone wants to disable the spotlight icon, I found this tweak that does the trick and keeps the rest of the icons intact. Launch Terminal and run the following command sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search Then, killall SystemUIServer and once it restarts, poof, your Spotlight Icon should be gone, but everything else should still be there.

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