My dock is gone!!

[Rajj]

After installing 10.2.8, my dock disappeared!!
I can’t even uninstall the dock app and reinstall it.
Any thoughts besides reinstalling Jag?

[alphaone]

What do you mean you can't reinstall it?

You can always reinstall something. Just delete it and its prefs and then reinstall it from the .pkg using pacifist.


Btw, mines working fine on 10.2.8, however my transparent dock app isn't working anymore. Oh well, I only used it to add some stuff to the menus. I didn't actually make it transparent so no biggy.

[LimeLite]

10.2.8 installs a new version of the dock.app. It states somewhere that it may have issues with third party applications like dock modifiers and such. The solution that others have come up with (there is already a thread about this) is to indeed reinstall the dock.app.

[Rajj]

Well I can’t delete the Dock.app in Core Services, I tried ctrl clickin’ on it, but there is no delete option. I also tried the cmd+delete keys, and logging on as root, but the sucker just won’t delete!!

[benixau]

is your dock running? YES
can you delete a locked file? NO

log out of your login and back in under console and then do the swap.

[gorman]

Have you tried simply removing your Dock preference file from ~/Library/Preferences? You'll lose your settings, but will probably get it back the fastest.

[Rajj]

Thanx all, I got it working again.
I just reinstalled the 10.2.8 update.

[Chaszmyr]

I had this problem too... It was related to Transparent Dock... I just used the Dock Backup that it made, and it worked fine

[jtown]

Oooooohhhhh. Your dock is gone. Had me worried for a minute.