Mission Control crashing

Another crashing issue with MC/Dock... here are the error codes:

Process: Dock [288]

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

Identifier: com.apple.dock

Version: 1.8 (1040)

Build Info: Dock-1040000000000000~5

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [266]

Date/Time: 2011-07-21 16:07:17.256 -0600

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7 (11A511)

Report Version: 9

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000d, 0x0000000000000000

any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated

OK, after deleting the plists for dock, desktop and dashboard from my ~/Library and Log out/in again... it seems to be much better and the animation is smooth again (it was really choppy before)... but it still crashes if I use it more than once quickly, or if I don't use it for say an hour and then try to use it again. Not sure what the issue is, but here is the console error I am getting now.

Any help is greatly appreciated:

Process: Dock [10899]

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

Identifier: com.apple.dock

Version: 1.8 (1040)

Build Info: Dock-1040000000000000~5

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [264]

Date/Time: 2011-07-22 21:48:38.312 -0600

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7 (11A511)

Report Version: 9

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000018

VM Regions Near 0x18:

-->

__TEXT 00000001035c1000-0000000103802000 [ 2308K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock

Application Specific Information:

objc_msgSend() selector name: retain

objc[10899]: garbage collection is OFF

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff9401a350 objc_msgSend_vtable13 + 16

1 com.apple.dock 0x00000001036205fd 0x1035c1000 + 390653

2 com.apple.dock 0x0000000103628e4f 0x1035c1000 + 425551

3 com.apple.dock 0x000000010362aa57 0x1035c1000 + 432727

4 com.apple.dock 0x000000010361dba1 0x1035c1000 + 379809

5 com.apple.dock 0x000000010360a387 0x1035c1000 + 299911

6 com.apple.dock 0x0000000103619419 0x1035c1000 + 361497

7 com.apple.dock 0x0000000103607ce8 0x1035c1000 + 290024

8 com.apple.dock 0x00000001035e718f 0x1035c1000 + 156047

9 com.apple.HIServices 0x00007fff92149892 mshPerform + 11

10 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9949f80c __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 44

11 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9949f53b __CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 155

12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff994d5cb7 __CFRunLoopRun + 1895

13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff994d5216 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230

14 com.apple.dock 0x00000001036b9e6d 0x1035c1000 + 1019501

15 com.apple.dock 0x00000001036741f0 0x1035c1000 + 733680

I was having a similar issue.

Upon some serious and somewhat random testing I discovered that changing my desktop image suddenly made Mission Control work again...

If you want a reason I cant give you one. Plain weird.

Give it a whirl.

Woops, sorry AddFone! I just noticed I butchered your name... 😊

Can you explain how you used terminal and home directory to clear out old folders and files?

Please, LunarBase, how do I find these "invisible directories", in order to delete them?

Hi, I seem to be having a similar problem in hands: mission control just won't admit access for more than half a minute whilst word, excel, and chrome (maybe a finder window too) are open, at which moment the computer crashes, and, well, I had to ask 'cause it's driving me nuts: what command did you use in terminal to search for those invisible directories and how did you go about erasing 'em? Thank you for your time.