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> Mark Haney posted on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:34:52 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> > I've just upgraded to 4.3.0 and I've got a question. On my 'taskbar', |
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> > if an app crashes (like Firefox just did trying to play a flash video) |
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> > I'm getting a 'button' on the taskbar of the app that just won't go |
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> > away. I have 2 currently, one from evolution and one from Firefox. |
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> > Does anyone know how to make those go away? Is anyone else seeing this |
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> > problem? |
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As others have indicated, you'd need to manually kill the processes. |
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Open an X terminal and issue the command: |
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ps ax |
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This will produce a list similar to the following, which is taken |
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from my own machine: |
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663 pts/2 Ss+ 0:00 sh |
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674 ? Ss 0:00 dhcpcd -R -M -h -t 120 -L -Y eth0 |
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678 ? Sl 0:00 pdnsd -d |
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684 ? S 0:02 sylpheed |
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697 ? Sl 0:32 skipstone-bin |
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994 pts/0 R+ 0:00 ps ax |
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The names of all running processes are shown at the right. Once you have |
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found the process in question (firefox or evolution), make a note of the |
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number at the left. This is the process id, or PID. Then issue the command: |
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kill -s 9 PID |
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This will terminate those processes. |
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Sometimes, a process can be associated with several PID's. Make sure to |
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kill, using the above command, all of the PID's that are involved. |
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Frank Peters |
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