Pasteboard Server hangup
Entry published may 13 2006
Today I had a weird problem where copying and pasting stopped working. Since I really dislike restarting, I messed around and found a solution:
Run this in the Terminal:
ps -x | grep "/System/Library/CoreServices/pb[s]"
I got a result like this, if you don’t get any results skip the next step:
20829 p0- SN 0:00.28 /System/Library/CoreServices/pbs
So it looks like it’s working fine, but for some reason it’s hung up. So kill the server:
kill 20829
Now restart it:
nohup /System/Library/CoreServices/pbs &
Now copy and paste should work again, if it doesn’t work in an app, try restarting the app, that should do the trick.