macOS: tccd often crashes and locks up the system for a minute; how to diagnose? I am using macOS 10.14.6. After certain actions, such as starting the screensaver and other &quot;innocent&quot; things, the system locks up for about a minute. The mouse pointer can be moved, but nothing else reacts or moves on screen. I just have to wait it out.
Looking at the console, I can see six .crash files for tccd, with timestamps about 10 seconds apart, after each such event. The contents are like this:
Process:               tccd [11633]
Path:                  /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/TCC.framework/Versions/A/Resources/tccd
Identifier:            tccd
Version:               221.260.3

...

Crashed Thread:        1  Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos.overcommit

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
dyld3 mode
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSFileManager fileSystemRepresentationWithPath:]: nil or empty path argument'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called

To trigger the problem, it is sufficient to open the Desktop &amp; Screensaver preferences, which shows a preview of the screensaver.
UPDATE: Trying to choose the picture source for screensavers causes a several minutes long hang. It seems that the problem is with the screensaver trying to access data on disk. The picture source has always been set to the default though.
I have now completely disabled the screensaver to try to avoid this problem. But unfortunately, it is sometimes (non-reproducibly) triggered by other actions as well, typically either using dictionary lookup (with &quot;force-click&quot;) or using quicklook in a file-chooser dialog. Of course, it always happens when I'm in a hurry and trying to get work done ...

What can I do to find the root cause of the problem, and resolve it?
This problem has persisted for several months now and I had no luck in diagnosing it, other than discovering the relationship to tccd, which is responsible for controlling the access of programs to &quot;sensitive&quot; user data.

UPDATE: The same problem is reported here and claimed to be related to security update 2020-004.

What I tried so far:

Reset the TCC database using tccutil reset All.
Here is it claimed that uninstalling Dropbox helped. I tried this and it made no difference.
I have nothing constructive to add at this point, other than to say I have what looks to be the exact same symptoms.  Same version of MacOS, same one minute hangs (mouse moves, screen frozen, iStat Menu CPU history shows 0% for over a minute), been happening for several months and just found the reportcrashs for tccd.  Mine occur in groups of 1 to 4 several times a week. Crash reports identical to yours.
I have not been able to find any rhyme or reason as to when they occur.
I'll post back here if I figure out anything and will watch to see if you make progress.
Thanks, Dale