After forced quit, "killall Finder" says "No matching processes..." but PID still exists?

Question

Here's one for ya. Upon a forced quit of the Finder with unsuccessful relaunch, "killall Finder" in terminal returns:

"No matching processes belonging to you were found"

Oddly enough, the PID for finder does actually show up after a "ps -A" to reveal all processes. But the time is perpetually listed as 0:00:00, upon repeated PID listings.

I tried the following to manually launch it:

open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app

But it puked:

LSOpenFromURLSpec() failed with error -600 for the file /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app.

Any other ideas on a Finder relaunch that don't involve rebooting? (I usually have 6 spaces open at once, each with a handful of apps and it's a pain reloading them all.)

Answer 1

Somehow, Finder finally ended up relaunching. Thanks anyway.