On 11/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
The times this has happened to my I used htop to send a SIGSEGV to make the program think it segfaulted and that caused the program to die. Its probably a horribly sloppy hack but it has worked for me in the past. -Mike -- ________________________________ Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
