[X4U] Tiger-unquittable/killable apps?

[Adam Bass]

I had this problem with early versions of Panther (10.3.0 up to  
10.3.3), but it was fixed by 10.3.3, and I've never had any issues  
like this with Tiger.

Adam


On May 14, 2005, at 8:45 AM, Michael Elliott wrote:

> I don't remember running into this problem with previous OS  
> upgrades, but now I get application lockups that I can't force-quit  
> out of.
>
> I will usually get the spinning-rainbow-beachball-of-death when  
> passing the mouse cursor over a window associated with the app,  
> whether it is DragThing, Finder, or (most commonly) iChatAV.  I  
> attempt to quit the app, but the menubar is frozen. I then do a  
> command-option-escape, which shows the applications to be "not  
> responding." So I select them for force-quit.  They disappear from  
> the Force Quit dialog...but not from the Dock.  If I close the  
> Force Quit dialog and then reopen it, the apps are still  
> there...not responding. I AM still able to launch new applications  
> from the Dock, even if it is the Finder that is the app that is  
> locked up.
>
> I can go to Terminal and issue "kill" commands to the respective  
> processes all I want to, but they processes do not quit.  Same with  
> Activity Monitor.
>
> I even tried simply quitting the Dock process to see if it was  
> simply a matter of a UI error keeping me from re-launching the  
> apps, but after re-launch of Dock, the apps are still there with  
> their little triangles under them...
>
> I've repaired permissions and when  problems persisted ran the  
> newest version of AppleJack.  No help...and of course the problem  
> only occurs randomly, and may go days between lockups.
>
> I've had to hard-restart the machine more in 2 weeks than I ever  
> did in the year before.
>
> Anyone else running into this?
>
> Michael
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