[X-Unix] Hung-up Finder can't be killed

[lj Palmer]

I switch to a task other than finder and then use "Force Quit" in the  
Apple menu to relaunch Finder.
..lj

On May 25, 2005, at 05:53, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> I have an Applescript which is cron'ed to run every day and copy  
> files to my
> flash-disk MP3 player which has a Windows FAT file system.   
> Sometimes, this
> flash disk gets corrupted, and when it does, the Finder hangs while  
> copying
> files.  I see a dialog which says, for example:
>
> Copying 139 items to "Today's Files"
> Item: "23.AG.05.MP3"
> Copied: 28.6 MB of 112.3 MB
> Time remaining: About 4 minutes
>
> The progress bar in this window is stopped, and it will stay that way
> forever.  To try and keep this topic narrow, I'd like to ignore  
> that larger
> issue for now and ask if anyone can help me with this:
>
> This dialog has a "Stop" button on it.  When I click it, it flashes  
> but
> nothing happens.  The close box is grayed out.  Force-quit/relaunch  
> does not
> work.  If I to Terminal and "ps -alx | grep Finder", I see that the  
> (Finder)
> has status E, which means "The process is trying to exit".  But it  
> will not
> go away even if I try to help it with "kill -6", or "kill -9".
>
> Other applications can be launched and generallly work OK.  But, of  
> course,
> with this process running, I cannot log out either, so the only way  
> to get
> my Finder back is to force restart.
>
> I plan to report this bug to Apple, but since that is a rather  
> involved
> process, can anyone here give me a quick hint?