Problem with dock

hi,when playing my 5th gen 30gb ipod on my new klipsch speaker dock my ipod has a
tendency to just stop suddenly and i have to reset it which is very annoying.
does anybody have any ideas why?

Have you tried creating a test account to see if the behavior is the same? If not, do that first; this would indicate the problem is system-wide and not limited to your account. You can delete that account after the test or leave it for testing other problems in the future.
If it's not a system-wide problem, then it's possible that something you installed caused the problem, such as the recent QuickTime 7 update. There seems to be no specific pattern to this problem, but I would suggest reinstalling the 10.3.9 Combo Update, which would overwrite any damaged or missing files. And use your OS X install CD to run a Repair Disk and Repair Permissions before and after the install.
Hope this helps,
Mulder
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I have a friend with a strange problem in the Dock. Sometimes by just launching any kind of application, the Dock becomes completely transparent and the icons in the Dock disappear when the mouse pointer is moved above. The only way to get back the good Dock is to restart the computer or close the user session.
The computer is the last iMac aluminium 20-inch, 2GHz Core2Duo, ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT, Mac OS 10.5.4.
You can see here:
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/1429/image2nb4.jpg
The computer is totally clean. No software or hack for Dock modifications has been installed!!
Personally, I have a Power Mac G5 and a MacBook pro Santa Rosa running Leopard, and I have never got this problem with the Dock. Then, it seems that this Dock problem is specific to iMac computer.
I would want to have feelings from other iMac users.
Thanks!
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My MAC hangs once in a few hours (fairly random) and the Crash Log seems to indicate it is a problem with the Dock Application. There is no correlation between other applications that I am using and the crash. Many times it happens soon after boot up.
Also, I am not using any widgets and am not synching with an iPhone or iPod.
The Crash Log is provided below and I would appreciate any support on how to resolve this.
Process: Dock [500]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
Identifier: com.apple.dock
Version: 1.6.6 (614.7)
Build Info: Dock-6140700~7
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [71]
Date/Time: 2009-02-11 18:09:21.059 +0530
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x00000000001ffff0
Crashed Thread: Unknown
Error Formulating Crash Report:
* -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value (key: VMUSignaturePath)
0x9328510b
0x914b5e3b
0x93284eeb
0x93284f2a
0x92d6ebf8
0x0007bfe5
0x0008bdd7
0x0008bf2d
0x00088fee
0x00002e74
0x000094a2
0x0000b5d4
0x0000b121
0x96f2a03b
0x0000a828
0x96efe095
0x96efdf52
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Unknown thread crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0xffff07d3 ebx: 0x00000000 ecx: 0x00000030 edx: 0xfff82f40
edi: 0x0027d0d0 esi: 0x002456e0 ebp: 0xbfffee18 esp: 0xbfffee10
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010282 eip: 0xffff0ef2 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x001ffff0
Binary images description not available

I have been having similar dock crashes --- I think they are caused by OpenOffice --- OO 3 and 3.01 both seem to have the problem.
I have a MacBook Pro 17 dual core Intel.
I started seeing the dock crashes on a 10.5.6 which had been upgraded all the way from Tiger to Leopard and onward to 10.5.6 including secupd2009-001.
The crashes were always similar to the original poster's. (see below).
After working on this for weeks I wasn't even able to tell for sure if this was hardware or OS software but I strongly suspected the latter.
Finally, I paid $100 for a Leopard DVD, and (in a separate partition) did an erase and install.
The problem went away for a while but now it's back.
The dock crashes restarted on the same day that I installed OpenOffice.
I just now dragged the OO icon out of the dock and instantly experienced a true system crash --- system locked up, will not respond to mouse, or any keystrokes --- had to power reset.
I have just used appdelete to unintall Open Ofice and all its friends.
I am going to try rebooting now and will agment this reply to tell results.
============== UPDATE NEWS FLASH ==========================================
I restarted after uninstalling OpenOffice and the only relevenat syslog msgs was this one:
2009-03-18 12:50:18 PM Dock[160] _DESCRegisterDockExtraClient failed 268435459
I hope I have identified the culprit and will post anything more I learn.
cb0
Here are the most recent Dock crash details (system lockup):
Process: Dock [216]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
Identifier: com.apple.dock
Version: 1.6.6 (614.7)
Build Info: Dock-6140700~7
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [118]
Date/Time: 2009-03-18 12:31:12.291 +0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G66)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000005
Crashed Thread: 5
Thread 5 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x013432b4 CFRetain + 36
1 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x02cdd83d _LSCopyDefaultKindString + 719
2 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x02ccefb0 LSCopyNodeAttributeDisplayKind(LSNodeAttributeStateCache*) + 494
3 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x02cce9d5 _LSCopyNodeAttribute + 123
4 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x02cce92f _LSCopyItemAttributeForRefInfoWithOptions + 283
5 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x02cce80d _LSCopyKindStringForRefInfo + 59
6 com.apple.dock 0x000a1f32 0x1000 + 659250
7 com.apple.dock 0x0009cce5 0x1000 + 638181
8 com.apple.dock 0x0009eb80 0x1000 + 646016
9 com.apple.Foundation 0x003e37ed -[NSThread main] + 45
10 com.apple.Foundation 0x003e3394 _NSThread__main_ + 308
11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00d2c095 pthreadstart + 321
12 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00d2bf52 thread_start + 34
Thread 5 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x0134329a ecx: 0x02d3a490 edx: 0x00000000
edi: 0x00000000 esi: 0x00000000 ebp: 0xb10373a8 esp: 0xb1037390
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010246 eip: 0x013432b4 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000005
Binary Images:
0x1000 - 0x108ff3 com.apple.dock 1.6.6 (614.7) <2a472439434b10eaa0780018b1512f66> /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
0x12a000 - 0x1b4fef com.apple.DesktopServices 1.4.7 (1.4.7) <7898a0f2a46fc7d8887b041bc23e3811> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Desk topServicesPriv
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