[Shuh]

Anyone know how to do this? I have someone who's Finder won't come online because it barfed on a Window-ID. It looks like the rest of the Window-manager may be up, because there is a desktop and a Dock, but no menu-bar or windows.

[Paul McCann]

Hi Shuh,

Not sure if this is going to work remotely, but something as simple as

% open -a "Finder"

works fine. The remote difficulty would stem from WindowServer ownership gunk. Worth a try in any case.

Cheers,
Paul

[iownacube]

hi everyone,

I'm the person Shuh is trying to assist.

Paul, I used open -a "Finder" it doesn't do anything, it doesn't give an error, doesn't say can't open, so I'm assumingit did something, but it doesn't get my finder back...

I repaired the disk using OS 9 and Tech Tool Pro, Disk Utility didn't repair the allocation problem, nor would fsck -y in single user mode....still, after rebooting, nothing worked....I also tried doing the safe boot, but that didn't do anything either....someone please tell me I'm not the only person in the world to have this happen???

[Mactoid]

What did the OP mean by the Finder barfed on a WindowID? What is meant by window ID, and how do you know that's what happened?

Just a note though, I'm not sure it's really the Finder causing your problems. The Menubar is not handled by the Finder, it is handled by the Window Server (I think).

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Mactoid:
Just a note though, I'm not sure it's really the Finder causing your problems. The Menubar is not handled by the Finder, it is handled by the Window Server (I think).

SystemUIServer is responsible for displaying the menubar. kill it, and it will restart automatically

type: ps ax | grep SystemUIServer

then kill the highest number

[absmiths]

Is all this occurring after reboots, etc? If so, I would not expect killing and/or relaunching processes to fix anything. I would expect to do a reinstall at this point.