Can't restart certain crashed applications without rebooting (in this case Noatun)

2010-06-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Sorry this is so long--maybe I can summarize the problem here, then you can go on and read the background and a more detailed explanation of the problem: Sometimes after a program hangs (in this case noatun), I have trouble restarting it without rebooting my entire system. I do look for all

Re: Can't restart certain crashed applications without rebooting (in this case Noatun)

2010-06-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Hmm, as is too often the case, after sending an email seeking, I start to get some other clues--I found a suggestion to restart arts--I tried that, still no luck so I'm still looking for help (but maybe I have some kind of clue now). Randy Kramer On Monday 21 June 2010 09:38:55 am Randy

Re: Can't restart certain crashed applications without rebooting (in this case Noatun)

2010-06-21 Thread Randy Kramer
OK, I think I solved my problem. I use a script I wrote some years ago (named kpid) to kill tasks by name (at the time, I didn't know that killall could do that)--anyway, I thought my script was using kill -9, but instead it uses kill -15. So now I: * kill -9 any remaining processes named