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Spliff · Nov 16, 2003, 01:14 AM

I'm really trying to like 10.3 but all these niggling issues are starting to get to me.

Here's the new one. I'm getting error messages in the Dock on running applications. It happens randomly to applications. If I right click right now on the iTunes icon in the Dock, it says "Application is not responding." Normally that would mean the application needs to be force quit because it's become unresponsive. But that's not the case. iTunes is working just fine.

Quicktime and Apple Remote Desktop also say the same thing. But, like iTunes, they're are working just fine.

I restarted the Dock but that didn't fix the problem.

Does anyone know what's causing this and how I can fix it? Delete some cache files or prefs? Or is some application or menu extra causing this?

SSharon · Nov 16, 2003, 01:31 AM

I get similar warnings but I think I have narrowed them down. They generally happen right after I tell an app to do something that I know will take some time. For example with quicktime, whenever I tell it to save a 700mb movie clicking on the dock before the progress bar shows up gives me the app not responding message. See if this is the same for you, if it is I guess thats just how panther works, it treats apps differently now.

Spliff · Nov 16, 2003, 01:40 AM

Ah, that's interesting. I think I might have done something like that with iTunes just before it happened.

I'm going to see if I can reproduce this.

SSharon · Nov 16, 2003, 01:57 AM

I just reproduced it in Safari.

I held command-n to keep opening windows and then quickly right clicked on its icon in the dock and there it was. Application not responding. Then when all the windows were open it was back to normal. Same story when I closed all the windows too.

Spliff · Nov 16, 2003, 02:02 AM

Originally posted by SSharon:
I just reproduced it in Safari.

I held command-n to keep opening windows and then quickly right clicked on its icon in the dock and there it was. Application not responding. Then when all the windows were open it was back to normal. Same story when I closed all the windows too.

For me, however, it doesn't go away. The message remains in the Dock even if the app is idle and has no windows open.

SSharon · Nov 16, 2003, 02:06 AM

Hmm, thats interesting.. What are your specs (maybe this is a Quartz Extreme issue or something that is more mac specific). I'm running 10.3 on a dual 1.0 ghz MDD with 768mb RAM and a whole lot of third party apps and USB junk.

Spliff · Nov 16, 2003, 02:14 AM

Originally posted by SSharon:
Hmm, thats interesting.. What are your specs (maybe this is a Quartz Extreme issue or something that is more mac specific). I'm running 10.3 on a dual 1.0 ghz MDD with 768mb RAM and a whole lot of third party apps and USB junk.

iMac 600 (G3) w/ 512 MB RAM

It doesn't support Quartz Extreme.

Are you running any menu extras? I have Synergy, MUMenu, MenuMeters, Stuffit Deluxe, and iSeek.

SSharon · Nov 16, 2003, 02:17 AM

Synergy isn't open now but it usually is. Never heard of MUmenu. Menu meters all are open except disk use. And no to the last two.

It would be nice if there were other people up at 3:15am (by me anyway) to contribute their experiences as well. This feels like a really slow IM, but whatever I don't mind I always learn new things here.

Spliff · Nov 16, 2003, 02:22 AM

Originally posted by SSharon:
Synergy isn't open now but it usually is. Never heard of MUmenu. Menu meters all are open except disk use. And no to the last two.

It would be nice if there were other people up at 3:15am (by me anyway) to contribute their experiences as well. This feels like a really slow IM, but whatever I don't mind I always learn new things here.

MUMenu is a niftly menu extra from http://www.macupdate.com/

It notifies me when new apps have been posted at MacUpdate.com (which is like Versiontracker.com).

I'm going to keep trying to recreate the problem.