First, I would leave the /usr/share library intact, and set up a separate
personal library for your own library elements and modifications. That way,
your edits won't be lost when you update the install.
I trust you killed the runaway process? If not, the executable file will not
be removed from the filesystem and . There are other processes associated with
kicad - eeschema, pcbnew, ..., as well as the kicad top-level program. Do a ps
for the various possible binaries and see if they have all really been shut
down. (I have a little script "fps" (for find process status) ; fps kicad or
fps eesch or fps [PID or PPID of one of the other results] will help you trace
down the tree. There are probably real commands now for this (like pgrep and
pkill), this is just one of my oldest shell scripts (from the early '80s and
modified to play nicely in each new system I play on.))
Donald.
> $Header: /usr/local/bin/RCS/fps,v 1.6 2007/11/21 01:44:35 dhl Exp $
>
> CMDNAME=`basename "${0}"`
> PSSOUGHT="${1}"
> PSOFORMAT="pid,ppid,user,pcpu,vsz,etime,time,osz,pmem,wchan,lwp,nlwp,args"
> PSFLAGS="-A -o ${PSOFORMAT}"
>
> case ${CMDNAME} in
> fpssz)
> # sort on memory size
> SORTORD="-b -k1,1n -k9,9n"
> ;;
> *)
> SORTORD="-b -k1,1n -k4,4n"
> ;;
> esac
>
> ps ${PSFLAGS} | egrep -i "${PSSOUGHT}|PPID" | \
> egrep -v 'egrep -i '"${PSSOUGHT}|${PSOFORMAT}" | \
> sort ${SORTORD}
>
HTH,
Donald.
----- "edasashok" <edasas...@yahoo.in> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to Kicad and found it very useful, but there is a problem
> with my kicad. I was running Kicad in root as the library kept in
> /usr/share is root owned. Suddenly something went wrong and Kicad
> crashed. Next time I start Kicad it does not open its GUI. I can TOP
> in terminal and see the Kicad in the process list but GUI does not
> open. At the same the one of my processor load become 100%. For me
> there is no other way to kill Kicad. I un installed and re installed
> Kicad 4 to 5 times but the same case every time. Any body have any
> clue?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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