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killall Dock
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Király
2014-10-30 06:22:08 UTC
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Sometimes when I killall Dock, it won't relaunch on its own. I have to
log out and log in to get it back.

Anything I can do to force restart the Dock without logging out/in? I
tried in Terminal:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock

...but that didn't do anything.

Thanks.
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David Ritz
2014-10-30 13:52:05 UTC
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On Thursday, 30 October 2014 06:22 -0000,
Post by Király
Sometimes when I killall Dock, it won't relaunch on its own. I have
to log out and log in to get it back.
Anything I can do to force restart the Dock without logging out/in?
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
...but that didn't do anything.
from the command line:

$ open /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app

from the finder:

command-shift-G (Go > Go to folder)
enter /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app
double-click

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Lewis
2014-10-30 18:31:02 UTC
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Post by Király
Sometimes when I killall Dock, it won't relaunch on its own. I have to
log out and log in to get it back.
Why are you feeling the need to kill the dock?
Post by Király
Anything I can do to force restart the Dock without logging out/in? I
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
...but that didn't do anything.
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Király
2014-10-31 05:39:34 UTC
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Post by Lewis
Why are you feeling the need to kill the dock?
Because sometimes it misbehaves. Most recently, the download progress
bar was showing underneath my Downloads folder (in the Dock) but I
didn't have anything downloading at the time.

I'll try the suggestions made here, thanks
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Your Name
2014-10-31 05:47:45 UTC
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Post by Király
Post by Lewis
Why are you feeling the need to kill the dock?
Because sometimes it misbehaves. Most recently, the download progress
bar was showing underneath my Downloads folder (in the Dock) but I
didn't have anything downloading at the time.
I'll try the suggestions made here, thanks
Mac OS X has quite a few wierd "quirks". Another similar example is
when using USB keyrings drives. When you plug one in it appears as a
device in the sidebar of Finder windows ... sometimes it has a small
eject button next to the name, sometimes it doesn't. It's nothing to do
with the USB keyring drive itself since the same drive can display both
ways at different times. I don't know if it still happens in newer
versions, but it has been a annoying bug in many of the older versions.
:-\

Kevin McMurtrie
2014-10-31 05:01:10 UTC
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Post by Király
Sometimes when I killall Dock, it won't relaunch on its own. I have to
log out and log in to get it back.
Anything I can do to force restart the Dock without logging out/in? I
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
...but that didn't do anything.
Thanks.
It's probably not actually dead and it's flagged for one process per
login. You can try using "kill -ABRT Dock" to force a crash-like death
or "killall -KILL Dock" to terminate at maximum strength.

The one thing you can't fix is processes stuck in "uninterruptible I/O".
This is where the Kernel has asked a hardware device or low-level driver
to read directly into the app's memory but it hasn't finished. You get
this problem with bad hard drives, bad Firewire chipsets, and remote
filesystem. (Apple could fix this by setting aside the RAM until I/O
completes)
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