Cant close docker on Mac

[diliboy88 (Dylan Corea)]

I tried to closed docker on Mac and icon stuck on icon bar

[terpz (Martin Terp)]

Tried to kill it via the Terminal or restaring?

[diliboy88 (Dylan Corea)]

Yes. I did do that. Terminal said “arguments must be process or job IDs”

[terpz (Martin Terp)]

try “dockerd”

else you need to run “ps -ef | grep -i docker” to get the pid, and then: kill -9 PID

[diliboy88 (Dylan Corea)]

@terpz

ps -ef | grep -i docker

where is the pid? I got
0 127 1 0 13Dec21 ?? 0:00.18 /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.docker.vmnetd
501 66859 1 0 Wed07pm ?? 0:07.53 /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/Docker
501 66954 66859 0 Wed07pm ?? 0:01.72 /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/com.docker.dev-envs -watchdog
501 93545 93535 0 4:31pm ttys000 0:00.00 grep -i docker

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

kill requires a process ID.You could use pkill to kill a process by its name.

pkill docker

@diliboy88

where is the pid? I got

PID is the second column. You can see the headers without grep.

Although I feel I have to ask: How did you try to close Docker Desktop? Closing the window will not terminate the app. Have you tried “Quit Docker Desktop” from the menu?

[diliboy88 (Dylan Corea)]

Thank You! for 10 days that was stuck!

[codewhispererx (Tammy Diprima)]

I realize this is an old post, but on MacOS you can do killall "Docker Desktop".
It worked for me today.