aze Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 Hi all! Well, sometimes I have programs crashes but they still in memmory and its window(s) still openned. So i try to kill all its instances using kde/gnome-system-monitor and 'top'. but in some cases none of those is able to kill applications. I tried to restart X but sometimes they still in memmory (programs like xmms). I think those process are locked in memmory. So I need to reboot the pc! :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest itti Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 did you try kill -9 <process-id> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 if the window is still present use "xkill" instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 In a term do ps auxf or ps -A Find the pid and do as itti says (kill -9). Or, killall name of program should take care of it; kill -9 is nicer though. I believe there's a man kill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aze Posted February 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 i tried xkill too but no success. I'm suspecting from /mnt eg.: if i use 2 apps working with /mnt/... and then on of them locks the other one will lock together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 That is really strange, what is the device being accessed by those apps? a cdrom? a NFS? you can try to kill all the applications that are accessing a device (eg: cdrom) doing as root: [root@localhost ~]# fuser -km /dev/cdrom read the fuser's man page for more info. I've found that command very valuable when a nfs resists an unmount Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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