[PLUG] Can't kill process

[Dick Steffens]

While working on getting the correct nVidia driver on my Slackware 
machine Firefox appeared to hang. It won't respond to attempts to close 
it via the gui, so I tried kill. I used ps ax | grep firefox to learn 
the process to kill. But when I try to kill it, as root, I get an error 
message telling me there is no such process. Sure enough, when I use ps 
ax again, firefox has a different process. After trying yet again to 
kill the process I learned from the second ps ax, and discovering that 
that process doesn't exist, I tried ps ax a couple of times in a row. 
Each time I get a different process number.

How do I kill a process like that?
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Regards,

Dick Steffens

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