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:haripu: · Jun 18, 2003, 03:08 PM

I've just been reading the "kernel panic"-thread and thought about how often I had to restart in the last year. Not often, to tell you the truth. 4 or 5 kernel panics, that was it.

But what bothers me more, is that there are some programs, that don't cause a kernel panic, but sometimes force you to reboot anyway because they take over the entire processor time.

And one of the most unexpected apps there was - for me - preview.app. It happens about two or three times a month, that i try to open a few jpgs - and in opening them, preview just about freezes, but not totally (you can i.e. move the mouse pointer a few centimeters in a few minutes, but most of the time you get the beachball, or just a frozen pointer. finder clock stopps, too). And then you have no other option but to restart. Obviously not processor time left for escape pod to work, too.

does this happen to anyone else with preview?

OAW · Jun 18, 2003, 04:19 PM

I had that happen once. Preview just sort of went crazy and started sucking up the CPU. I couldn't quit the app ... I couldn't force quit the app ... I couldn't even kill it in the terminal. Had to restart the machine to get things back to normal.

The good news is that I've never had it happen again so far.

OAW

arekkusu · Jun 18, 2003, 09:57 PM

I have also had this happen, Preview can't be killed. AND it blocks logout/shutdown via the Apple menu. I had to %sudo reboot.

Uncle Skeleton · Jun 18, 2003, 10:49 PM

I have had this happen as well. I was able to force logout using escapepod, and I think I established that killing loginwindow in the terminal would also work. After posting about it I discovered that it's somewhat common for Preview to do this, and if you search the software forum for the thread I started about it someone posted a hand-waving mildly believable but non-satisfying explanation of why it happens

:haripu: · Jun 19, 2003, 03:39 AM

Originally posted by Uncle Skeleton:
I have had this happen as well. I was able to force logout using escapepod, and I think I established that killing loginwindow in the terminal would also work. After posting about it I discovered that it's somewhat common for Preview to do this, and if you search the software forum for the thread I started about it someone posted a hand-waving mildly believable but non-satisfying explanation of why it happens

could you point me to this thread? a search with "preview" returns about 10.000 results, none of them relevant.

:haripu: · Jun 19, 2003, 03:42 AM

Got it already! Thank you.