Missing Reflections Under Most Open Dock Icons?

I have a "reflection dot" under Finder, iTunes but nothing else. Also icons don't seem to bounce when opening. I just upgraded to 10.5.

Rebooted and it's working

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    RAX: 0xffffff7fa3602420, RBX: 0x0000000000002c77, RCX: 0x0000000000002d1c, RDX: 0x0000000000000019
    RSP: 0xffffff820c4b3a30, RBP: 0xffffff820c4b3ac0, RSI: 0xffffff81c01e7268, RDI: 0x0000000000002d1c
    R8:  0xffffff81c01e8268, R9:  0xffffff81c01e7a68, R10: 0x0000000000002b02, R11: 0xffffff81c01e8268
    R12: 0xffffff81c01e7a68, R13: 0xffffff804310d000, R14: 0x000000000004b400, R15: 0x0000000000000000
    RFL: 0x0000000000010282, RIP: 0xffffff7fa35eb27f, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000010
    Fault CR2: 0xffffff7fa360513c, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x6
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    0xffffff820c4b3760 : 0xffffff8020e1e80a
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    0xffffff820c4b3ac0 : 0xffffff7fa35eabc6
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    0xffffff820c4b3b50 : 0xffffff7fa35d9dc3
    0xffffff820c4b3c20 : 0xffffff7fa1b48c43
    0xffffff820c4b3c60 : 0xffffff7fa1b360f0
    0xffffff820c4b3ca0 : 0xffffff7fa1b33d8f
    0xffffff820c4b3cb0 : 0xffffff7fa1b35e00
    0xffffff820c4b3d50 : 0xffffff7fa1b35fdb
    0xffffff820c4b3d70 : 0xffffff7fa1b3f6df
    0xffffff820c4b3dc0 : 0xffffff7fa1b3f5f2
    0xffffff820c4b3de0 : 0xffffff7fa1b3b5a2
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    0xffffff820c4b3e60 : 0xffffff7fa1b408aa
    0xffffff820c4b3e90 : 0xffffff7fa1b3cc8a
    0xffffff820c4b3ef0 : 0xffffff80212d7162
    0xffffff820c4b3f40 : 0xffffff80212d507d
    0xffffff820c4b3f80 : 0xffffff80212d5146
    0xffffff820c4b3fb0 : 0xffffff8020e192c7
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