Try: kill -9 320874 Then: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
And reboot. Tomas On Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 21:38 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > I should probably oughtta file a bug report about this - an instance of > VLC running when there is no window for it is just wrong. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
