Mac OS X Leopard Dock Crashes

macosx leopard debugging crashes dock

03|07|2008

Recently I've encountered several instances wherein my Dock crashes (by crashing I mean hovering over it doesn't show and doing Command + Tab doesn't switch applications)

Up till recently I've just been doing a restart but since I got tired of doing it always I tried hijacking it the *nix way:

ps aux  | grep Dock

The output for mine was this...

cyx       2118   0.0  0.0    75452    372 s005  R+    3:12AM   0:00.00 grep Dock
cyx       1195   0.0  0.5   408528  11032   ??  S     5:43PM   0:06.36 /System
 /Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock -psn_0_499834

So I issued the usual killing blow:

kill -KILL 2118

It automatically restarted, and things went back to how they were.

Note: This occurs when I frequently do a Command Tab between applications, and I mean frequently, with a ton of open apps too.

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