[chasg]

Hi All,

Under what circumstances can an app SPOD (progress wheel comes up, app freezes), and when I force quit it, the process quits (as seen in the Activity Monitor), but the app is still reporting as being running in the Dock? Because of that, I can't restart the app (and I can't determine what's still running to prevent me from restarting the app??). I can't even restart the machine normally, I have to force a shutdown (it'll try to restart, but won't move past the point where the Finder's icons and desktop pictures disappear).

Actually, it's three apps that are the problem: Photoshop CS4, Bridge CS4, and Photo Mechanic 4.5.4.

All three of these apps freeze just about the same time (e.g. if photoshop spods, then I try to quite Bridge right away, but then it spods too :-(

I thought it was at first the fact that they all share the same esata scratch disk (a striped RAID 0 pair), but when I switched them to an internal disk that had enough space for scratch, they still crashed in the same way.

The Mac in question is a Mac Pro 2 x 2.8 GHz quad with 8GB RAM running OSX 10.5.6. Zapping PRAM and rebuilding permissions hasn't had any effect (even reformatting the scratch disk didn't help).

Thanks in advance for any pointers,

Chas

[turtle777]

Happens occasionally. It has nothing to do with the individual apps, it's just the Dock freaking out.

Sometimes, restarting the Dock in Terminal (killall dock) helps, but not always.

Unfortunately, once the Dock becomes that "corrupted", only a restart can help.

-t