On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:38:22 -0800 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:45:51 -0800 >Jason Barnett <[email protected]> dijo: > >>check to see if it is already running in the background >>> >>> ps -A |grep vlc >> >>If so, then kill it >> >>> killall vlc > >Interesting. The grep command gave me: > > 320874 ? 03:37:35 vlc > >Even though there was no VLC window on the desktop. So then I did >'killall vlc,' but it still wouldn't launch. Finally I opened the GUI >task manager and there it was, still running. I killed it with the task >manager, and that did the job. All is well now. It just started doing it again. Last time I found it running in the GUI task manager, killed it there, and then it started working again. This time it did not appear in the task manager, but the ps -A |grep vlc command gave me the PID 406292, which I then killed, and afterwards vlc started working again. How can there be a PID that does not appear in the GUI task manager? Next time this happens, how can I find out more information about a PID? I am assuming here that some random piece of VLC is not being shut down when I close VLC, and whatever it is, it's stopping me from launching VLC from the GUI file manager. And note that if VLC is running I can open a second window of it to play a different video. _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
