Apps refuse to quit for Restart/Shutdown, plus other oddities

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Apps refuse to quit for Restart/Shutdown, plus other oddities

This has started out of the blue. I cannot restart/shutdown anymore with apps open. Whan I try this, the usual alert window pops up, I confirm that I want to shut down, then nothing happens and console tells me:

loginwindow[34] ERROR | -[ApplicationManager(AppleEventHandling) _tryQuitAllForRequestor:replyEvent:] | _tryQuitAllForRequestor - _vproc_set_global_on_demand returned error -1854748728

After a while, I get a "timeout" window for every single program that is still running, one after another.

Also, repeat console messages like this one:

loginwindow[34] ERROR | WSActivateApp | SetFrontProcess({0, 528513}) returned error -600. Unable to activate process.

So I have to quit every application manually i order to shut down.

After I quit the last one, Finder is shut down, but the desktop is still there, as is the dock. Nothing happens. I can restart Finder from the dock, but then the same thing happen again when I want to shut down... so I can only "shut down" by pressing the power button...

I tried repairing permissions, which didn't help.

Another thing that doesn't work anymore is "Active corners" for screensaver - nothing happens. I don't know if this is related...

Thank you very much already...

PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), PowerMac G5 2x2 GHz

Posted on Dec 10, 2012 12:24 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 10, 2012 12:54 PM in response to Martin E. G. Anhalt

PS: Another thing that stopped working is taking screenshots. My key combination is shift-cmd-3 or 4. I checked it, and it's still the same, but doesn't work anymore...

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Answer 2

Dec 11, 2012 3:05 AM in response to Martin E. G. Anhalt

PPS: This seems to be an on and off problem. Sometimes, everything works fine, but if these things happen they all three happen together!

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Answer 3

Dec 11, 2012 6:31 AM in response to Martin E. G. Anhalt

Do you have any third party utilities or strange applications?

Does it only affect one account?

Is your disk full?

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Answer 4

Dec 15, 2012 2:29 PM in response to Neville Hillyer

Thanks for your answer. It took several days until this error showed up again, despite me not changing my... daily routine with it.

The only things running when I tried to shut down were Thunderbird and Spyder3Utility, which I have been using for years.

My HD has 28 GB free space.

I only use this one account on this computer.

As I said, when I try to shut down, after abouot a minute I get a notice that (for example) Thunderbird caused a timeout. After I quit it manually, the next app causes a timeout etc. After I quit them all manually, finder quits, but Dock ist still active and nothing happens. I can restart Finder from the Dock.

These are the processes running right now. There was one, coreaudiod, that was "not responding" and that I quit manually right now.

0	kernel_task	root	0,7	51	262,69 MB	1,59 GB
1	launchd	root	0,0	3	580,00 KB	586,72 MB
10	kextd	root	0,0	2	1,29 MB	586,16 MB
11	DirectoryService	root	0,0	5	3,34 MB	588,80 MB
12	notifyd	root	0,0	2	528,00 KB	586,14 MB
13	syslogd	root	0,0	4	492,00 KB	587,21 MB
14	configd	root	0,0	4	1,86 MB	587,69 MB
15	distnoted	daemon	0,0	1	760,00 KB	585,56 MB
16	mDNSResponder	_mdnsresponder	0,0	2	1,21 MB	587,47 MB
20	securityd	root	0,0	2	1,73 MB	587,39 MB
27	ntpd	root	0,0	1	824,00 KB	586,11 MB
28	cupsd	root	0,0	2	3,86 MB	588,82 MB
30	usbmuxd	_usbmuxd	0,0	3	1,11 MB	588,09 MB
31	update	root	0,0	1	284,00 KB	585,54 MB
32	SystemStarter	root	0,0	1	572,00 KB	585,58 MB
36	mds	root	0,0	16	31,58 MB	807,72 MB
37	loginwindow	bigmega	0,0	4	9,29 MB	809,28 MB
38	KernelEventAgent	root	0,0	2	604,00 KB	585,65 MB
39	kdcmond	root	0,0	2	948,00 KB	585,70 MB
64	krb5kdc	root	0,0	1	1,34 MB	586,03 MB
41	hidd	root	0,0	2	540,00 KB	586,09 MB
42	fseventsd	root	0,0	12	1,38 MB	592,84 MB
44	dynamic_pager	root	0,0	1	640,00 KB	585,58 MB
47	diskarbitrationd	root	0,0	1	1,08 MB	585,67 MB
51	autofsd	root	0,0	1	628,00 KB	585,59 MB
53	socketfilterfw	root	0,0	3	3,30 MB	586,93 MB
65	coreservicesd	root	0,0	2	29,97 MB	629,58 MB
67	WindowServer	_windowserver	0,2	6	44,15 MB	839,21 MB
87	launchd	bigmega	0,0	3	560,00 KB	585,72 MB
104	WacomTabletDriver	bigmega	0,0	2	5,74 MB	768,04 MB
105	AirPort-Basisstation-Agent	bigmega	0,0	2	3,61 MB	765,59 MB
109	Spotlight	bigmega	0,0	4	21,07 MB	919,64 MB
110	UserEventAgent (not responding)	bigmega	0,0	3	3,30 MB	729,90 MB
111	BootstrapDaemonP	bigmega	0,0	2	1,19 MB	587,67 MB
112	Dock	bigmega	0,0	2	11,12 MB	807,02 MB
114	ATSServer	bigmega	0,0	2	5,09 MB	644,88 MB
115	pboard	bigmega	0,0	1	532,00 KB	586,62 MB
116	SystemUIServer	bigmega	0,0	9	11,11 MB	804,34 MB
117	Finder	bigmega	0,0	6	51,55 MB	875,78 MB
122	TabletDriver	bigmega	0,0	1	2,35 MB	744,72 MB
128	ButtonMonitorX	bigmega	0,0	3	2,22 MB	724,72 MB
129	Get Info Key Server	bigmega	0,0	1	2,34 MB	729,75 MB
132	Spyder3Utility	bigmega	0,0	2	23,34 MB	854,03 MB
160	iTunes Helper	bigmega	0,0	2	2,46 MB	730,95 MB
1477	Thunderbird	bigmega	0,3	12	67,75 MB	877,66 MB
1809	Console	bigmega	0,0	5	15,18 MB	824,95 MB
1810	TenFourFox	bigmega	1,1	23	282,88 MB	2,06 GB
1816	Activity Monitor	bigmega	7,1	6	18,59 MB	872,25 MB
1817	pmTool	root	1,6	1	1,30 MB	595,66 MB
186	nmbd	root	0,0	1	1,13 MB	586,94 MB
342	smbd	root	0,0	1	2,24 MB	590,68 MB
343	smbd	root	0,0	1	336,00 KB	590,68 MB
1027	AppleFileServer	root	0,0	2	5,27 MB	594,19 MB
1788	mdworker	bigmega	0,0	4	3,88 MB	601,71 MB
1825	mdworker	_spotlight	0,0	3	2,36 MB	601,01 MB
1827	coreaudiod	root	0,0	2	1,84 MB	718,04 MB

Well, hope that helps somehow. thanks for your patience.

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Answer 5

Dec 15, 2012 2:39 PM in response to Martin E. G. Anhalt

It is important to know if it affects the whole OS or just one account.

Create another account and try it for a while.

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Answer 6

Dec 16, 2012 1:45 AM in response to Neville Hillyer

Will do. This may, of course, take a while, since that behaviour only shows up every few days...

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Answer 7

Jan 15, 2013 4:07 PM in response to Martin E. G. Anhalt

Hi!

I just encountered a problem where I am unable to make the at-symbol which is for my country the key-combination alt-2 . I found that the problem occurs first after I login and the process called "Get Info Key Server" started. Try to quit that and see if your screenshot-shortcuts works?

If anyone know what that process does and where it comes from, please let me know.

129

Get Info Key Server

bigmega

0,0

1

2,34 MB

729,75 MB

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