How do I kill bad processes in Mandrake 9.2

[newbie4ever]

I know this is a really dumb question, but like for instance totem is acting up now how do I kill it.

[fuzzylizard]

You have two methods:

1. Go to the start menu -> applications -> monitoring -> Xkill

Click on XKill and then when the cursor changes, click on whatever app is misbehaving and it will kill it for you.

2. Open up a terminal and type in killall app-name (replace app-name with whatever program is acting up). The only problem with this is that the name of the app and the name of the process may not be that same. So, you can always do this

 

$ ps -ef | more

 

This will list all the processes running on your computer. Find the one that you need to kill and then issue the above command (killall app-name) to remove it.

[pmpatrick]

There are a couple of ways to do it. Try opening a console and running:

 

$ killall totem

 

Also in the start menu go to Applications>Monitoring>Xkill and click on it. The mouse pointer will turn into a little skull and crossbones. Place it on the totem window and click and it will kill totem. Watch where you click though; it will kill any X application that your on when you click it.

[Xeroid]

Another method is to do a ctrl / alt / esc. Your curser will change to the little skull and crossbones. Now you're lethal. :lol: Then you can just click on the title bar of totem.

Edited February 26, 2004 by Xeroid

[bergamote]

Here's another way to kill an application: in a terminal type

$ top u userName

Look for the PID of the application you want to end then type in a terminal

$ kill PID

[aru]

jJust another, this one 100% automatic, get the pid of the procces you want and kill it (if it resists, kill as 'kill -9 pid'):

 

~$ ps aux | awk '/tote[m]/ {print $2}' | xargs kill

[aRTee]

FYI, killing with xkill kills the window, not the process behind it.

You can alternatively start xkill by hitting ctrl-alt-escape.

 

Use this (by preference) only if the process has died with a segmentation fault (happens to mplayer quite often if there's something wrong with the video drivers) but the windows are still there (empty, usually).

 

Before you kill with

kill -9 [PID]

where PID is the process ID as in the result of a ps -fu [user]

try just to get the program to exit:

kill [PID]

 

Some processes die but stay around and you can't seem to kill them -- but you can if you manage to kill the parent process -- don't kill that if it has PID 1.... :P

[arthur]

How do I kill thee? Let me count the ways...

 

one more, if X acts up, use (as root of course) "init 3" or "init 6" if you're still in that Windows "reboot mentality". :D

Edited February 26, 2004 by arthur

[Pzatch]

A very large hammer works also. But this does meen leaving the basement to go find it. I keep mine next to the computer now.

[energymedia]

Here's yet another one.

 

Go to APPLICATIONS-->MONITORING and start KDE System Guard. Look on the process table and select the process that you want to kill and click kill.

[aRTee]

Instead of the applications - monitoring - system guard, you can also hit ctrl-esc and voila...

 

 

Btw to kill X, ctrl-alt-backspace does nicely, unless the machine seriously hangs (nvidia driver does that to me at times. Not cool.)