Reported Process ID doesn't exist (Snippet Expansion)

[huckncatch]

When my snippet expansion stops working, I always check the Snippets section in Alfred Preferences. In my most recent experience it was reporting Safari as the app preventing the expansion and after quitting Safari, it showed "Process ID 4607 seems to be preventing text expansion by locking secure entry". But there is no process with that ID running... `kill -HUP 4607` returns "kill: kill 4607 failed: no such process".

 

BTW, I don't recall a time that quitting the application mentioned in the message resolved the snippet expansion block.

[Andrew]

Alfred uses a method quite similar to this to find the process which is preventing secure entry:

 

https://alexwlchan.net/2021/04/secure-input/

 

using ioreg, then looking through for kCGSSessionSecureInputPID. When there is no process name associated with the ID, the id itself is displayed instead.

 

Next time you're having the issue, if you could reference this link and dig a little deeper, it may find what on your Mac is actually causing the issue.

 

Let me know how you get on.

 

Cheers,

Adnrew