John Jason Jordan wrote:
> 1) I can't read the list of running processes easily. I see the
> application I want to kill, but just as I am about to read its PID,
> the screen jumps. How do I make the list of running processes sit
> still?
>
> 2) At the moment I have Rhythmbox running on my Lucid desktop and I
> can't kill it. It does not appear in the list of running processes in
> top. Gnome System Monitor does list it, with a PID of 24384, shown as
> "uninterruptible." In Gnome System Monitor I right click on it and
> select "kill process," but it doesn't die.
>
> >From the command line I did "sudo kill -9 24384" and it took the
> command without error, but Rhythmbox remains alive and well.
>
> I know I can kill it if I restart the computer, but I shouldn't have to
> do that. So far I'm firing blanks. Any suggestions?
>
John Jason Jordan
1) Top ... top -n 1 ... will do one iteration and stop
2) "uninterruptible" ... maybe that means just that?
3) ps is a possibility? ps -ef | grep -i Rythmbox | grep -v grep
3.1) the -i is for ignore case
3.2) the -v is to ignore the next pattern (in this case grep) ... that
last part is optional, of course
3.3) ps list both PID and PPID ... possibly if PID is not "killable",
the PPID is? But be careful ... identify the PPID process before
jumping off the cliff, OK?
example:
ps -ef | grep -i Rythmbox | grep -v grep
if this tells you that Rythmbox is running as 24384, and the parent is 3001
ps -ef | grep 3001 | grep -v grep
should help you identify the PPID process
Does any of that help?
Question ... is there a GUI presence on your desktop representing
Rythmbox? If so can it not be closed from there?
Question ... if you ps for Rythmbox, who is the owner? is it running,
sleeping, or zombie? under top, how much cpu and memory is it using?
UNIX and Linux are good solid OS's, but not all applications are worthy
... i.e., some of them hang badly and then fail to go away in any useful
way.
Regards
Fred James
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