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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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> My wife ran into a problem this evening that required I do a |
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>reboot. She runs Gnome. Sometimes something about her setup goes |
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>haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper. In the |
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>past I've found that if we log her out and then in the console kill |
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>all processes left running with her account as the owner that she can |
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>then log back in and use Gnome correctly. |
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> This evening one of these processes was unkillable. I tried |
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>kill -15 PID |
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>kill -9 PID |
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>killall -9 process_name |
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>but none worked. To make forward progress I just rebooted. |
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> Is there some other way I could have tried killing this process? |
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>Thanks, |
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>Mark |
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Was it a <defunct> or <zombie> process? |
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