Something stronger than Force Quit?

[dsharits]

Sometimes leaving the iPod plugged in on a Windows machine will give it the blue screen of death.

Almost anything can give Windows the blue screen of death.

 

[solaris]

This command should kill iTunes:

kill_pid=`ps ax | grep iTunes | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }'`; kill $kill_pid

 

[Orlando Furioso]

Bam. Unplugging the iPod did the trick. Thanks dsharits!

Apple really should fix this bug...

yeah, my system does that too. iTunes may not quit if I had previously ejected the ipod (from within iTunes). If it does, it sometimes does not "open" after the fore-mentioned sequence. Really strange.

In either case, unplugging the iPod "fixes" things.