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Force quit stuck applications from the dock
Authored by: MasterUltan on Jun 09, '03 10:32:59AM

Holding down "option" while right-clicking or control-clicking on the dock icon changes "Quit" to "Force Quit"



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Force quit stuck applications from the dock
Authored by: acroyear on Jun 09, '03 02:12:46PM

Okay, but what do you do when that doesn't work? And then sudo kill -9 [the process #] doesn't work?

I had this instance last week where Word locked up. I had the spinning beachball for that process going for about 45 minutes before I decided it HAD to go; the top list showed a stuck process. None of the usual procedures worked. I figured I didn't have anything to lose, and I couldn't log out. I ended up trying to kill the windowing system (ATServer? don't remember now which one I picked). The screen went blue, then made me log in again, but the process was still there, even though Word wasn't showing up in the dock as having been launched, and the console was saying something about Invalid other window. I ended up rebooting.

I'm curious to know what would cause such a super-stuck process and what else I might've done in a circumstance where I really needed not to reboot....

--Acroyear



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Force quit stuck applications from the dock
Authored by: PCguy on Jun 09, '03 05:34:45PM

I've found that repeatedly running that command will eventually take care of the problem. I also switch to root for the worst offenders. Most of the time, sudo kill -9 will work after a few tries, occasionally root is required to do the job.



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