I too have this problem on my laptop. I was wondering if there is any trick to killing a run away process like open office. I have tried to kill -9 it to no avail and killing its parent process only makes it change its parent process to init. I usually end up restarting but that is sub optimal. There must be some way to kill a process regardless of its state.
For what it's worth, you might do better to try "kill -HUP" a process first, then "kill -TERM", before resorting to "kill -9" (aka "kill -KILL"). Using less than maximum force gives the process a chance to notice it is supposed to go away and shut down more cleanly. This may help.
However, if you do get a process stuck which won't go away when you kill -9 it, consider doing a "ps axl" and see what it's WCHAN is stuck on. (BTW, be sure you can discriminate between a zombie waiting for a parent to reap it's exit status, ie, "STAT" is "Z"...)
-- -Chuck
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