Help: Force quit doesn't work

Some error happens on my program and it freeze. So I force quit the program. It turned off. But when I reopen the program, error keep happens. I try restart, shut down, and reinstall program but it doesn't work. It happens to my firefox but somehow it works again. Now my flash program has this error and I can't fix this problem.. Anyone know what to do with this?

no but I am getting similar problems with iTunes just started recently. IDK if it might have something to do with the latest update or something about using my external to play off of.

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Need help...Force Quit doesn't work & keep crashing HD b/c of it

For a week now, I have been trying to re-download my iTunes library from the iTunes store. Turns out, the problem has to do with the amount of downloads they put in my queue, which causes iTunes to crash. But, when it does crash, Force Quit doesn't work UNTIL I am forced to unplug the hard drive it was writing to. This is BAD and could kill my hard drive (I've had to do this AT LEAST 20 times this week and have repaired it 4 times with DiskWarrior and TechTool Pro during the past week).
Is there ANY way to get force quit to work without having to do this to the hard drive?? Seagate is no help as their phone just rings...no customer support avail even though hours say they are open. I am using 10.4.10 and a 500GB Seagate Pro External Hard Drive. I would put this in iTunes, but Force Quit is a Tiger thing. Off topic a bit, do you think iTunes would crash less if I downloaded to my internal HD instead (though, not really feasible as my internal couldn't fit all the downloads anyway)???
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

The previous reply was correct -- the freeze you are experiencing has nothing to do with the number of songs in the iTunes queue. The problem is with your hard drive. The newer Seagate FreeAgent drives (and all FreeAgent Pros) use a chipset that does not play well with recent versions of MacOS. I am not sure if Seagate uses two individual chipsets: one for USB and one for eSATA (assuming you are using a FreeAgent Pro), or simple one that supports both protocols, but that is the causing your mysterious freeze.
I have spent weeks troubleshooting this very same problem and have yet to find a solution. Right now, I am in standby mode until Apple releases 10.4.11 which is said to have fixed "issues with USB devices." I have tried many brands of external drives (Western Digital, Hitachi, roll-your-own, pre-FreeAgent Seagates) and they all work fine. I have even removed the drives from the FreeAgent Pro drives and put them into roll-your-own USB enclosures and they work fine. The problem is with the Seagate FreeAgent interface chip itself.
Hopefully you can still return your new FreeAgent drive to the store you bought it from. I am a strong believer in Seagate drives and use them extensively at home and work (over a dozen externals total) and the FreeAgents have caused more trouble than I've ever experienced with an external device. As of now, I am using a Western Digital 750GB MyBook drive until Seagate or Apple can find a permanent fix for the issue.
That being said, the FreeAgents have worked fine in the past and only recently have begun to have issues, so if you can, try rolling back to an earlier version of 10.4 and try again. Being a software developer, that option wasn't available to me.

Force Quit Doesn't Work/Freezing, Crashing

Oy. So I have to put this in context. Clutz that I am I dropped my Macbook Pro a year ago. Resulted in a cracked screen, screwed up optical drive and LED light/audio issues. Other than that it worked. It finally decided to clock out over the summer. Spent the money to get a new logic board(they pretty much gave me new computer and put my stuff on it). A few weeks after I got it back(and am now 4hrs away from nearest Apple store) It would freeze ocassionally(SBBD), no big deal, I'll force quit. Or reinstall that program(back then it was usually Mozilla Firefox, now it's kind of any program). As time has gone on it started freezing more frequently and force quit is no longer working. Had to look up what to do when force quit doesn't work, but the thing is, EVERYTHING freezes. I can usally click on a program(activity monitor) all I want, but it wont open. So this all results in having to force shut down, and it kills me inside to do that. Sooo I can wait until I'm back home and take this baby back to Apple, but I figured I'd give this a shot.
Should have mentioned this, I recently uprgraded to Mountain Lion about a month ago, hoping it would help. Worked for a while...but no such luck.
Programs that seem to crash most:
Sibelius
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
iTunes
Microsoft Word

Forgot mention the important part. Was forced to force shutdown last night. Then I turned it back on. It got stuck on the white boot up page with Apple logo and loading circle for about 15 minutes. Fans were really load. Shutdown again and left it off all night. This morning I try it again and it makes an odd noise and till gets stuck on white screen for about five minutes Then it turns grey, and then it turns on.

Mdnsresponder will not quit. Consumes above 100% CPU and kills my battery. Also causes my fan to run constantly and my computer to get extremely hot. Force quitting doesn't work. It just comes back.

The mdnsresponder will not quit. Consumes above 100% CPU and kills my battery. Also causes my fan to run constantly and my computer to get extremely hot. Force quitting doesn't work. It just comes back. I posted about this earlier and never got an answer. Somebody, please help.
Thanks.

mDNSResponder is a background process that runs all the time. If you kill it, it's relaunched automatically.
Please launch the Console application and select "system.log" from the file list. Enter "mDNSResponder" (without the quotes) in the search field. Post a sample of the log messages in the Console window -- only one example of each repeated message, please.

How can i stop the i tune pop force quit doesn't work

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please help " how can i stop the i tune pop force quit doesn't work"

Refunds on downloaded software are virtually nonexistent.
I have had cases where I purchase software on a physical disk. If I don't like the software I can uninstall it from my computer and sell it legally. Recouping most of my loss.

Since 2.2.1 upgrade, force quit doesn't work after an application freezes

Sorry if this was posted before, but I couldn't find a post that matched my issue.
Has anyone else noticed that since upgrading to 2.2.1 on the 3G, if an application freezes, force quit doesn't work. I have to do a hard reset inorder to get the OS to respond again. Even tried to just hold the power button to do a power off and it doesn't respond.
Any advice? Tried restoring to 2.2.1 many times didn't help.

Thanks for the response. I have done a many restores as "new iphone" and reinstalled apps. I normally get freezes when I'm in a twitter type application and using the "mini/lite safari browser" within the twitter app.
When the phone doesn't freeze, I can force quit apps at will. It's only after a freeze (when I need force quit the most) does it not work....
I would make a Genius Bar appointment but I can't recreate it at will.

When forced quit doesn't work???

What do I do when forced quit doesn't work?? This happens occasionally when something freezes, like Logic did today. I force quit, and wait... and wait... and nothing happens. I try and restart and it keeps coming up with the same window: Logout timed out, please force quit to continue or cancel.
Anyways I hit force quit over and over and nothing happens. I resolve to holding the button and manually restarting the computer. How can I get this thing to force quit?!!
- All updated
- Repaired permissions
- Repaired disk (nothing was wrong anyways)

Funny you should ask as I had the EXACT same problem this afternoon.
I had to do a hard restart.
But, then I got the gray spinning startup.
So, I had to restart from my backup drive (thank you SuperDuper!).
Then, 5 minutes later my internal hard drive reappeared.
Then, I restarted from my internal drive.
I had this problem in April (I took notes) and Apple replaced my hard drive.
Your mileage may vary.

How do I shut down safari when force quit doesn't work either?

My Safai would not shut down, force quit didn't work either. What to do?

Once you do that, check your system, something is wrong
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Leopard hangs - have to power off - force quit doesn't work

On several occasions Leopard has hung - try to run activity monitor to kill problem app - I get the bouncing icon but nothing else. force quit does not work on it. Can't log off - can put to sleep, but resumes in same hung state. Once I hard power off and restart, a I get a series of beeps, not just one and a normal start - no error messages. Other programs also would not respond to force quit including parallels desktop.

Hi,
Have had same problem here. My iMac is only a few days old, and barely anything on it before the upgrade from tiger to leopard.
Tried lauching thunderbird tonight, and the app just sat on the dock bouncing for a while, but the application never actually seemed to launch.
Tried force quit, but didn't have any effect. Also could not log-off, or shut down, as it said the application wasn't responding. This does seem very windoze-like!

Can't quit iphoto it says is uploading pictures when its not. Force Quit doesn't work. PleaSE HELP!

I tried importing the pictures of my iphone. iPhoto freezed at one point and so I turned off my iphone to disconnect. Now iPhoto doesn't quit or upload any pictures because its saying its importing pictures, when nothing is connected to the computer.

Use Force Quit in the Activity Monitor (in your Applications/Utilties folder.

Applications quitting unexpectedly and Force Quit doesn't work

Hi there -
Hoping someone can help me out because this is driving me crazy! For the last week or so, probably 75% of the time that I save my work on word, excel or numbers the application stops responding. Force Quit either doesn't work or takes an extraordinarily long time to work and I end up restarting the computer. A few times during these episodes, Finder also stops responding, in which case I can't even restart appropriately. I'm wondering if an upgrade to 10.6 would fix this issue or if I should be doing something else instead to avoid total hard drive failure! Thanks for any help you can offer.

Ok, so day 2 of getting updated software (my office for mac was way out of date and so the mac genius proposed that i try that and see if it solved the issue) installed and then updated and i'm still having the same issues. Happened in Mail today for the first time - went to attach something and mail stopped responding, wouldn't force quit. Mac Genius also told me to try a different account on the computer to see if that account has problems, so I logged out of the account I normally use, and the computer wouldn't log out - just showed my desktop photo and no other options for the longest time. Eventually just shut down the machine, logged in as a different user and seems that everything works fine when I do this.
Thoughts on how to start fixing what seems to be communication (maybe indexing problems) on the account I normally use?
Thanks!

Options when Force Quit doesn't work?

My newly installed QuarkXpress 7.3.1 is not behaving nicely in my newly installed 10.5.2 on my new Intel iMac. Firstly, it sends a stream of errors to Console, mostly "<Error>: CGContextSetFillColorWithColor: invalid context l", of which I get thousands within a short while of opening Quark.
But now it doesn't even want to quit. And it refuses to obey Force Quit. Are there any other persuaders I can try (never used Terminal but will give it a go if foolproof)?
Simon

sudo shutdown -h NOW
That will for the machine to accept a shutdown command no matter what is happening. It may take awhile. Come back in an hour. If you get an error message saying can't shut down because something won't quit, then do a:
ps -ax
Identify the PID of what will not quit that is third party that you recognize.
kill -15 PID
where PID is the number of the offending process.
Repeat until you can get the process to disappear from ps -ax.
As for being foolproof, any data that isn't saved on a killed process won't save.

Programs freezing after 10.5.3 - Force Quit doesn't work anymore.

Pretty much the topic...
After 10.5.3 lots of programs of different kinds are freezing more often. Force quit closes their windows but doesn't actually kill the app.
What could I do?
Cheers.
JP

Is anyone besides me running Little Snitch.
This is more than just iTunes, although that is what took the blame for preventing me from logging out or rebooting. Had to force power down this time, and it took 2 tries to power up.
Here are the hung processes I had this time:
218-173-184-124:~ rtilley$ ps auxww|grep " U"
rtilley 429 1.6 3.1 677344 131900 ?? U 9:24pm 11:44.30 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari -psn0213044
rtilley 4717 1.4 0.3 443416 13076 ?? S 9:56am 0:02.05 /System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/MacOS/Software Update -psn01229100
rtilley 1875 0.1 0.1 377740 3372 ?? U 12:49am 0:34.87 /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ScreenSav erEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -idleCheck
rtilley 179 0.1 1.6 608800 66860 ?? U 8:40pm 2:22.26 /Volumes/Users/Users/rtilley/Applications/Communications/Skype.app/Contents/Mac OS/Skype -psn0106522
rtilley 4682 0.1 2.1 593940 86596 ?? U 9:45am 0:22.07 /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail -psn01208615
rtilley 132 0.1 0.2 451188 6712 ?? S 8:39pm 33:56.96 /Library/Little Snitch/Little Snitch UIAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/Little Snitch UIAgent
rtilley 174 0.0 0.4 436016 15692 ?? U 8:40pm 0:03.23 /Applications/iCal.app/Contents/MacOS/iCal -psn086037
root 64 0.0 0.1 108792 2532 ?? Us 8:39pm 0:02.06 /Library/Little Snitch/lsd
root 47 0.0 2.2 249916 91216 ?? Us 8:39pm 1:11.69 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Support/mds
root 42 0.0 0.0 75332 284 ?? Us 8:39pm 0:17.90 /usr/sbin/update
rtilley 4722 0.0 0.0 75532 464 s002 R+ 9:58am 0:00.00 grep U
_securityagent 4719 0.0 0.1 410564 3480 ?? U 9:57am 0:00.10 /System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SecurityAgent
rtilley 4505 0.0 0.5 411948 19532 ?? U 8:41am 0:00.92 /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes -psn01093899
rtilley 498 0.0 0.5 480780 21296 ?? U 10:00pm 0:25.36 /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit -psn0237626

Force Quit doesn't work

I have been kinda irritated with the following problem which is happening quite often:
When I use Safari to surf, sometimes as it tries to download some videos or pdf files, it hangs and I can see the beach ball rotating indefinitely.
I cannot force quit because the cursor remained as a rotating beach ball & refused to turn into an arrow so I cannot point it to the apple icon to force quit.
Then I tried to press Option-Command-Esc simultaneously but the Force Quit dialog panel refuse to come out despite pressing Option-Command-Esc a thousand times !!
These Option-Command-Esc method only works for me like 5% of the time, in the sense that only 5% of the time the Force Quit dialog appears upon pressing Option-Command-Esc.
Because of this beach ball indefinite rotation & not being able to force quit, I am left with no choice but to turn off & on the computer again !!
Why is the Option-Command-Esc in Mac so unreliable as compared to Control-Alt-Delete in Windows ?
Is there some setting I missed out ?
Thanks

kisuke3 wrote:
If you can't perform the force quit action using the key combination
can you do it by the apple menu?if this method works. Your problem could be Keyboard or Keyboard settings
Suggestions:
1. go to keyboard and mouse pane in system preferences. Then keyboard shortcuts
below you will see restore defaults. Try it again if this does not work
2.Go to International pane in system preferences. Then input menu. Tick keyboard viewer. tick also show input menu in menu bar. Click the flag then show the keyboard viewer
Verify if those keys are being registered into the screen. You may have a faulty keyboard
Thanks kisuke3,
Now my Mac cannot start up. It hangs at the blue screen satge. Probably bcos to too many power turn-off due to the force quit not working ... sigh ...
Will come to this once I solve the start-up issue.
Will post the start up problem in another thread.
Thanks

Strange freezing/force quit doesn't work 100%

hey all...
for the past few weeks, i have been having this strange problem...
starting with EXCEL, but now on other programs like iphoto, itunes, and even finder...
sometimes programs just freeze...
spinning beach ball forever...
when i go to force quit, the program closes, but still stay listed in the force quit window as "program not responding"...
as well, the little light blue dot under the program icon in the dock stays "open"...
once force quit, the program can't be launched again...
and the only thing to do is restart the computer...
note: this only happens to one program at a time...ie: if it is happening in, say, excel, but other programs are open, they will run fine...
any ideas?
i have repaired permissions...
thanks,
hb

hello again...
still having the same problem...
tried creating a new user, but i confess, haven't spent as much time trying things out in that account...
i did however, reinstall os 10.5, and imported everything from a time machine backup (just so i knew i was running with a fresh OS)...
and also, ran REMBER which said the RAM was good...
even monitored the computer in CONSOLE to see if anything looked odd when an application crashed. nothing memorable yielded.
one curiosity, is that when i repair permissions, it finds hundreds to correct....
says "repair permissions complete"...
but then, i can run the process again right away, and it still finds 100's to correct.
this seems odd to me, and i wonder if a permissions problem is to blame.
but short of repairing them (or trying to) i don't know what to do...
hb

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