The issue is that kill -9 kills the process with extreme prejudice, in this case that means immediately. The process does not have time to clean up. Always try just "kill" first, this sends a TERM signal which can be caught and a sophisticated program(such as most programs that use locks) can clean up and then exit. Some times thee processes wander off into the weeds and you have to use -9 to kill them, unfortunately they then often leave trash (such as lock files) in the file system.
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 06:47 -0700, MJang wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 21:39 -0700, Jason LaPier wrote: > > kill -9 20774 > > http://www.monzy.com/intro/killdashnine_lyrics.html > > snip > > > > > > Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 20774. > > On rare occasion, a kill -9 doesn't work. You should be able to delete > the /var/run/yum.pid file. > > Thanks, > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- "I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." — Alan Kay, creator of Buy at Amazon.comSmalltalk. [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
