On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:58:42 -0600 Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process > will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have > something to do with You Tube.) When I try to start up another instance > of Firefox, I get an error message that tells me to either close the > current process or to reboot the system. Rebooting is not a good > solution. I remember from the 'old days' that there is a cli command to > identify a process id and another one to kill a process. I've searched > my memory and the User Manual but cannot identify those two commands. > Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated. Try ctrl-alt-Esc. That brings up a skull and crossbones. Click it in the offending window and you will kill the process. From the command line: ps ax | grep -i firefox then kill -9 <process -id> Normally I use kill -TERM first, and if that does not kill the process, then use -9. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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