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On 11/28/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> 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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The times this has happened to my I used htop to send a SIGSEGV to |
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make the program think it segfaulted and that caused the program to |
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die. Its probably a horribly sloppy hack but it has worked for me in |
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the past. |
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-Mike |
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Michael E. Crute |
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Software Developer |
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SoftGroup Development Corporation |
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Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. |
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Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. |
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