[X4U] Tiger-unquittable/killable apps?

[Meg St. Clair]

I actually had this problem under Panther but it seems to have  
largely disappeared under Tiger. I did an upgrade to Tiger as I  
haven't the patience to wipe my hard drive and then reinstall all my  
apps.
On 14 May 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