I have been trying to add images to the catalog and it has yet to work. Each time I try the Catalog Metadata Gathering task color changes to yellow and says Less than 100 batches remaining. I have left it running for at least a couple of hours when I am only trying to catalog 188 images and nothing happens. The catalog is still empty. I right-click the desired folder, select Include when Scanning to Catalog and then click Start on the dialog box.
I have also tried imports of other sizes from folders of around 100 to folders of 5000 with the same result. I have also created different catalogs in different locations on my drive with the same result each time.
Upon further troubleshooting I discovered an error that is being logged in the dyn.log file. I am attaching that file along with the PM.log.
I am on a 2018 15" MacBook Pro running Mojave 10.14.4.