After upgrading to Lion, I boot up and most of my icons don't appear on the right side of the top menu bar and when I hover over spotlight, I get the spinning pinwheel and there's no network access. The preferences open up fine but when I click on network, it hangs.
The only way I can get around it is to reboot while holding down the shift key.
I read about a fix (that didn't work for me) that clears the font caches by executing:
atsutil databases -removeUser
atsutil server -shutdown
atsutil server -ping
And another fix suggestion that said to use FontNuke & check the "Reset Spotlight" and "Repair Permissions" boxes before clicking "Nuke Font Caches". However, FontNuke isn't available yet for Lion.
Has anyone else had this problem and found a way to fix it?
Update: The new version of FontNuke is out yet it didn't fix my problem. Still SOL.
Anyone see this and have any ideas?
Best Answer
You can turn off Spotlight indexing for the whole hard drive in System Preferences -> Spotlight. Then after rebooting turn it on again, and Spotlight will re-index.
My problem is that I'm having this problem every other or every third reboot.