Disk Utility.app loading disks forever?

[zzzachi]

fresh macbook pro 2016 with pre installed Sierra.

Disk Utility.app is displaying "loading disks" forever on start.
unusable.

anybody got this too?

 

[MacGizmo]

I've had that issue in the past, but not under Sierra. That doesn't mean Disk Utility isn't still a hot mess, it pretty much always has been and I suspect will continue to be for a long time.

 

[zzzachi]

a simple restart helped...
but thats still a bit odd for such a basic utility

one would think an apple developer could implement a timeout
and an error(?) message if a program hangs or fails to load the disk information.

 

[shawny2005]

it's an issue with fsck, a disk checking program running in the BG.

if you kill that process, it will load.

ps -ef | grep fsck
kill -9 $TH?E_PROCESS_NUMBER

 

[JimmyJames75]

I know this is old but it was driving me mad in Mojave too. Lots of googling, lots of trial and error and then I finally found the solution. For me it was OneDrive causing it. I removed it and kaboom, disk utility loads without issue. No need for constant reboots just to get into DU and no more hanging whilst my mac reboots.

 

[Dydegu]

I know this is old but it was driving me mad in Mojave too. Lots of googling, lots of trial and error and then I finally found the solution. For me it was OneDrive causing it. I removed it and kaboom, disk utility loads without issue. No need for constant reboots just to get into DU and no more hanging whilst my mac reboots.

THANK YOU! This was driving me insane.

 

[iainmaoileoin]

In my case I had a shared drive that had gone offline. diskutil just stuck saying :loading disks:
I followed some instructions elsewhere -

1. Go to Finder and open a new window.
2. Go to the finder menu and select "Preferences..."
3. Click the sidebar icon at the top of the Finder Preferences window
4. Un-check "Bonjour Computers" and close that window.

The "stuck" shared drive vanished from the finder and immediately the diskutil started