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noff
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 Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 7:48 am Post subject: Kill things that just won't die |
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I am trying to kill soffice-bin because it keeps failing to open up. I tried kill and then the process id. I switched to root and did the same. It won't die. Is there anything stronger than kill.
I know restarting will fix it, but I run linux o I don't have, to restart. It is a sick joy I know. If t wasn't for playing with kernels I would hopefully never restart. Take that windows.
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Larde
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| Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 7:54 am Post subject: |
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kill -9 pid is the strongest you can get... (or in this case, killall -9 soffice-bin, with killall you often save to look up the pid)
Hth,
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| Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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kill everyprocces that is started by it, if any first then it.
if its a zombie then you cant kill it. i think.
never happend to me 
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guero61
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Correct. AFAIK, zombies can only be gotten rid of in two ways -- reboot or direct modification of something in /proc 
Kill -9 will fix ya up; while we're on the subject, who uses psg? A production system I worked on a couple of summers aliased psg with "ps -ef | grep". You could then execute "psg soffice" and it would save you several keystrokes. Anyone?
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# alias psg="ps -ef | grep"
# psg init
root 1 0 0 Nov21 ?
root 2548 2486 0 16:01 pts/0 00:00:00 grep init 00:00:16 init
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Of course, it can be modified to filter out itself, but then you run into more and more load. |
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ebrostig
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 12:19 am Post subject: |
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There is another way without rebooting.
Some times kill will not get rid of the process, most likely it is hoilding a lock somewhere.
What you can do is to change runlevel to single user and then back again.
Log out all users and log in as root.
Type: telinit s
This will change the system to a single user system and stop all server processes running in multiuser level.
Log in as root and type:
telinit 3
This will bring you back into multiuser mode.
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The Shadow Surfer
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| Larde wrote: | kill -9 pid is the strongest you can get... (or in this case, killall -9 soffice-bin, with killall you often save to look up the pid)
Hth,
Larde. |
Kill -9 [pid] worked just fine 
Thanking you all for the help
/The Shadow Surfer |
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