Can't Copy and Paste?

November 10, 2004 - 2:09am

If you find that you can’t copy and paste anymore open Activity Viewer and look for the pbs process. If you don’t find it listed you have two options:

Relogin.

Start it manually: /System/Library/CoreServices/pbs (it runs as you, not root)

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November 10, 2004 - 2:36am

Eridius said

I've never had pbs disappear on me but I have had it turn into a zombie process on several occasions. At that point there's nothing I can do to fix it - kill doesn't work on zombies (even with -9) because it's waiting for the parent to acknowledge the death. I've tried starting a new pbs process but that didn't seem to solve anything. On all 3 occasions I ended up having to restart (logging out may have solved the problem, but I figure it doesn't take much longer to restart and you may as well do a full restart if you're going to log out anyway)