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Rob Rocket Author

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10.8.1 Update keeps my dock randomly crashing/rebooting

Hmm,

just wonder If I am the only one, this happend to.

My Server is/was 10.8 and running perfect since setup. I applied apples 10.8.1 Update, and on reboot the dock is shortly seen and than crashing. Then the mac (under admin account) tries to restart the dock but crashes immediatly.

Luckily, the services running (afp, ftp etc...) at all are not affected, it just is "a cosmetic glitch", I will start into recovery HD and repair the disk, when I have physical access to this remote server.

I let you know by than, how this turned out.

In the meantime if anyone experiencing and repairing the same situation feel free to give a hint... ;-)

Posted on Aug 26, 2012 3:50 AM

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Rob Rocket Author

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Aug 28, 2012 4:32 AM in response to Rob Rocket

Update: still crashing finder and dock...

Booted from Recovery HD, repaired drive, repaired volume rights, little things to repair....

crashes are still the same

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Aug 28, 2012 1:14 PM in response to Rob Rocket

Have you tried the old "trashing the preferences"?

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist

There's also this Dock related folder; some sort of db files inside

~/Library/Application Support/Dock

Trash those, log out and log back in.

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Rob Rocket Author

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Aug 29, 2012 9:43 AM in response to Eric.

Thanks Eric,

yep, trashed the Preference files to.

No success...

Strange thing opening the administrators user preference folder crashes the finder to, had to delete the pref files via terminal...

I will try today to make a new admin user and hopefully the crashing will go away...

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Sep 4, 2012 9:52 AM in response to Rob Rocket

same issue for me with 10.8.1 non-server

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10.8.1 Update keeps my dock randomly crashing/rebooting

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