Cant force quit, cause it's only half running or something?!

[big_malk]

I've had eyeTV open in the background for a few days now (no shut down or sleep) and when I tried to use it again, it had crashed. No problem I thought, force quit. Didn't work.
The windows all closed, but the dock triangle hasn't gone, and it isn't showing up in activity monitor.
I've tried force quitting a few times, and given it plenty time to do it. If I click on the dock icon, the front window loses focus, but the application menu stays as Safari, for example.

I read about using the "top" command in terminal to get a list of all running processes (although this should be identical to activity monitor?) but for some reason I can't scroll down the list in terminal? If I drag the window bigger I can see more of the list, but not enough to see it all and I just cant scroll down so I can't see the PID number, but I could get it from activity monitor... if it was in the list...

I dont want to restart cause I have stuff running thats been working for a while, but I'd like to watch TV while its working

 

[Multimedia]

You Have To Shut The Mac OFF For A Moment

Sorry, no way around having to turn off the Mac for a moment and starting over. We all have to do it from time to time. Fact of life.

 

[JackRipper]

Sorry, no way around having to turn off the Mac for a moment and starting over. We all have to do it from time to time. Fact of life.

Actually, you can get the PID using the ps command from the terminal.

ps -A | grep "PART_OF_APP_NAME" | grep -v "grep"

PART_OF_APP_NAME can be just the first few letters, but it is case sensitive.

The PID is in the first column, then run:
kill -9 PID
or
sudo kill -9 PID

depending on if your user started the process.

Multimedia does have a point, though. Sounds like it's time to restart. You can't scroll???? Can't say I've seen that before.

 

[big_malk]

I tried what you said , JackRipper, and terminal returned "12042 ?? E 0:00.00 (EyeTV)", which I assume means it wasnt found as a process? The same way it doesn't show in Activity Monitor.

What?! You mean I have to restart a Mac every so often?! Gosh, you'd think I was using a PC or something

Well, it's been working hard 5 days and 6 hours so far, and apart from this not had a single problem but maybe it is time for a restart lol

Well, I can scroll, just not down past the bottom of the window. The results of 'top' fill the window and no more, if I resize the window the results adjust to show more or less. If I scroll up, I can scroll down, but not past the bottom of the results.

I have had a few strange problems like this, such as a folder I just cant delete. Think I need a clean install, but I'm holding out for Leopard