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• SUDO COMMAND NOT FOUND MACBOOK PRO PASSWORD NOT WORKING HOW TO

Hit Return on your keyboard and enter your admin password if prompted. Click inside the terminal window and type sudo killall VDCAssistant. The next time you launch an app that uses the FaceTime camera, everything should be fixed. That is using a command line to Force Quit the process: Go to Applications Utilities Terminal. (Just type it you won't get visual feedback.)

(Here's more info on the sudo command.) You must be an admin user, and then enter your admin password. So the string 'sudo" is required at the start. This process is owned by root as it interfaces to the hardware. Then open the OS X Terminal.app (Also found in /Applications/Utilities). First, quit any apps that might be using the camera. This involves a simple terminal command and isn't hard to do. Relaunch the app you need that uses the camera.ģ. You'll get a confirmation dialog like this. Select it, then click the "x" icon on the extreme top left to kill the process.

Click the top of the left column where is says "Process Name" to cast the list into alphabetical order, and then look for the process "VDC Assistant" in the list below. From the /Applications/Utilities folder, launch the Activity Monitor.app. Moderate. Quit any apps that may be using the camera. However, that may be inconvenient under some conditions.Ģ. That will reinitiate all processes that were running but not properly exited. There are several ways to do this, in increasing order of complexity.ġ. There has even been a report of this happening in OS X El Capitan for no apparent reason. Occasionally for some reason, an app that uses the FaceTime camera may fail to properly close a system process that manages it.

SUDO COMMAND NOT FOUND MACBOOK PRO PASSWORD NOT WORKING HOW TO

From time to time, with some older versions of Skype or other video apps or even in some unexplained cases with OS X El Capitan, the FaceTime (front facing) camera can fail to work with the message " There is no connected camera." Here's a quick tip on how to bring the camera back to life.īackground.