On a Mac running any version of OSX, press Command-Option-Esc to bring up the task list. You can kill a deviant process from there. It should almost NEVER be necessary to use the power key.
You can also do this from Terminal... get the task list using the "top" command and note the PID (process ID) for the deviant. Top looks like this: Processes: 63 total, 3 running, 1 stuck, 59 sleeping... 261 threads 08:48:56 Load Avg: 0.07, 0.10, 0.08 CPU usage: 4.85% user, 3.40% sys, 91.75% idle SharedLibs: num = 7, resident = 78M code, 2108K data, 5132K linkedit. MemRegions: num = 7844, resident = 293M + 20M private, 188M shared. PhysMem: 469M wired, 574M active, 87M inactive, 1399M used, 2697M free. VM: 8654M + 387M 56662(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE 262 PubSubAgen 0.0% 0:00.01 2 59 27 488K 3476K 1528K 21M 259 Mail 0.0% 0:02.19 14 233- 348 19M 37M 41M 416M 258 top 3.6% 0:01.16 1 20 29 572K 188K 1156K 18M 247 bash 0.0% 0:00.00 1 14 19 304K 184K 936K 18M 246 login 0.0% 0:00.01 1 17 55 340K 228K 1112K 19M 245 mdworker 0.0% 0:00.13 3 51 32 768K 5532K 2892K 32M 243 Safari 7.3% 0:05.40 8 133 300 22M 18M 32M 394M 238 SyncServer 0.0% 0:01.47 2 51 88 16M 6096K 18M 39M 229 AppleSpell 0.0% 0:00.03 1 23 30 604K 6592K 2068K 34M 174 Terminal 1.1% 0:02.93 4 110 196 3852K 23M 11M 372M 173 iCal 0.0% 0:01.44 3 107 227 14M 22M 31M 379M 172 ATSServer 0.0% 0:00.12 2 65 73 576K 1260K 2056K 54M 169 LaunchCFMA 0.3% 1:20.63 7 169 571 50M 28M 70M 571M 159 Canon UFR 0.0% 0:00.19 1 68 52 524K 2268K 2488K 281M 158 LaunchCFMA 0.2% 0:09.80 2 68 120 7712K 6296K 13M 351M You can then kill the deviant process using "kill" followed by the PID for the thing that's locked up. So, for example, in the list above Mail has the PID of 259. To kill Mail, just type "kill 259". Note that Mail may launch companion processes (eg. PubSubAgen), so killing Mail on its own might not be enough. That's why it's generally better to use the Cmd-Option-Escape method. It does a better job of nabbing all the sub-processes. When you have the mail app open, use the "Activity Viewer" window to see what it is doing. If you have set it up to use IMAP it may have been doing a sync with the server. That can take a long time the first time if there's lots of mail; IMAP isn't the speediest protocol. D. >Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:47:21 -0500 >From: Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net> >To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Subject: Re: [MBZ] MacBook question > >Hold the power button down until is shuts off, or pull the battery >and power plug (oops, can't pull the battery, eh?). > >Check the preferences in mail, it's possible you typed something in >wrong and it cannot connect. There is also a "connection doctor" in >there somewhere that may help. > >Peter > >On Oct 22, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Gerry Archer wrote: > >> MacBook (Leopard) connects the search engine to the ISP fine. >> After setting up mail so it will connect to the ISP, it refused. >> When I tried to shut down the computer, it refused to shut down >> because mail was still active. Tried everything I could think of to >> shut down computer, but nothing worked. >> The only solution I can find is to let the computers battery run >> down, or take the battery out of the computer. Anyone have a >> better solution? >> Thanks, >> Gerry _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
