Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't kill Firefox!
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:04:50
Message-Id: 1862145.B3S4A0VBXy@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Can't kill Firefox! by Mick
1 On Thursday 21 July 2011 19:38:53 Mick wrote:
2 > Whatever Dale had on his machine must have infected mine! LOL!
3 >
4 > A 32bit x86 box with KDE4.6, running firefox-3.6.17 and xulrunner-1.9.2.17
5 > after a few hours and loads of tabs (sometimes up to 15 or so) eventually
6 > hangs X.
7 >
8 > I can switch to a console and login as the user running the X session, then
9 > try to kill the bloody thing with killall, kill -15 <pid> and kill -9 <pid>.
10 > It won't barge. Mind you I haven't tried this as root.
11 >
12 > How can this be?
13
14 don't know, but the next time this happens try to strace firefox.
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