-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote:
>Hi, > My wife ran into a problem this evening that required I do a >reboot. She runs Gnome. Sometimes something about her setup goes >haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper. In the >past I've found that if we log her out and then in the console kill >all processes left running with her account as the owner that she can >then log back in and use Gnome correctly. > > This evening one of these processes was unkillable. I tried > >kill -15 PID >kill -9 PID >killall -9 process_name > >but none worked. To make forward progress I just rebooted. > > Is there some other way I could have tried killing this process? > >Thanks, >Mark > Was it a <defunct> or <zombie> process? - -- gentux echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDi/FtLYGSSmmWCZMRAh8NAJ9KXTfe8++DNn6sdGDwJSElL8Q9ywCePcxo XP7NmLuc8FA30xS7AfLj6W4= =AssW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
