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macOS Weird request: Need command to crash iTunes on demand

BJB Productions

BJB Productions

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Ok; I know the title is really weird...I'll try to explain. I'm in need of some code I can run through Terminal to make iTunes crash. I don't want to ruin anything! (but this is needed for a video I'm working on.) If there's no code that anyone can come up with, is there another easy way to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance!
 
Command + Q on the keyboard.

Or, open a terminal, run ps -A, find the process number for itunes, then type kill -9 "pid" where "pid" is the process id of itunes as given by the ps -A command.
 
chrmjenkins said:
Command + Q on the keyboard.

Or, open a terminal, run ps -A, find the process number for itunes, then type kill -9 "pid" where "pid" is the process id of itunes as given by the ps -A command.
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Thanks. Sorry I should of clarified: I need it to generate a crash report after it closes. (That's why I was truly looking for a way to crash iTunes, but not harm it)
 
BJB Productions said:
Thanks. Sorry I should of clarified: I need it to generate a crash report after it closes. (That's why I was truly looking for a way to crash iTunes, but not harm it)
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In that case, just keep using it. iTunes will take care of the crashing eventually. ;)
 
Code: 
killall -SEGV iTunes
I recommend reading the man pages for killall and sigaction so you understand at least vaguely what it's doing. I expect this recommendation will have little or no effect.
 
chown33 said:
I recommend reading the man pages for killall and sigaction so you understand at least vaguely what it's doing. I expect this recommendation will have little or no effect.
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Thanks! Worked like a charm. Now I can crash iTunes on demand..wooo. :p
 
I realize this thread is a dead letter office. But in answer to the original question, Command-T crashes iTunes every time. I know this because I accidentally do it frequently when I mean to Comman-Tab my way to another app, and hit command-T, like open a new tab on most browsers.
 
chrmjenkins said:
In that case, just keep using it. iTunes will take care of the crashing eventually. ;)
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Does it indeed? Not in my experience. I have plenty of complaints, but none about it crashing.


woofits said:
I realize this thread is a dead letter office. But in answer to the original question, Command-T crashes iTunes every time. I know this because I accidentally do it frequently when I mean to Comman-Tab my way to another app, and hit command-T, like open a new tab on most browsers.
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Only if you have a visualizer installed that crashes.
 
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woofits said:
Command-T crashes iTunes every time. I know this because I accidentally do it...
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Command-T is supposed to bring up the visualizer (color organ/lightshow/whatever). It does on my Macs. Check your Visualizer submenu selection in iTunes' 'View' menu. There are some old visualizer modules out there that can cause crashes, but Apple's 'iTunes Visualizer' should not.
 
I didn't even realize the current version of iTunes still had a visualizer... I had figured in doing away with the bloat they got rid of that... not that it mattered... as soon as iOS gained the ability to update itself OTA, I stopped opening iTunes ever. I use Spotify for all my music needs. I can't even imagine what Apple could do to make me ever want to use iTunes again (duplicating Pandora sure won't do that. If I wanted Pandora, I'd use Pandora. I don't like Pandora though - I like Spotify. And I can't imagine Apple duplicating Spotify + all of the Spotify apps I like using.)
 
What is the purpose of a "created crash" ? For all intent and purpose and by definition it really isn't a crash as far as bug reporting and debugging is concerned.

If it works and you purposefully crash it it's not a crash.

ymmv
 
Peace said:
I saw the first post.

If he's trying to show a video of iTunes "crashing" using the kill command will generate a different log than an actual crash.
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If this is for a non-educational movie, then it doesn't really matter. IE, a movie with a 1337 hacker who can crash iTunes. That's how you know he's 1337.
 
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