Re: killing a job-not solved but stopped

2013-02-04 Thread darkestkhan
On Feb 3, 2013 10:18 AM, "Thierry Chatelet" wrote: > > The Saturday 02 February 2013 02:08:16, Thierry Chatelet wrote : > > Doing some more trials, I started more intances of vlc, no one could be > killed! So at one point OI had more than 10 of those. I decided (dont kill me, > please) to go stupi

Re: killing a job-not solved but stopped

2013-02-03 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The Saturday 02 February 2013 02:08:16, Thierry Chatelet wrote : Doing some more trials, I started more intances of vlc, no one could be killed! So at one point OI had more than 10 of those. I decided (dont kill me, please) to go stupid $W way and restarted the laptop (was up for 2 and a half m

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The Saturday 02 February 2013 01:36:32, Bob Proulx wrote : > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote : > > > If the process won't die then likely it is a zombie. > > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process > > > > > > Zombies cannot be killed because they are already dead. Th

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote : > > If the process won't die then likely it is a zombie. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process > > > > Zombies cannot be killed because they are already dead. The most > > common reason they haven't left yet is because their parent pr

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The Saturday 02 February 2013 00:53:48, Bob Proulx wrote : > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Ok I got the pid of each instance of vlc. but kill +instance number does > > not kill anything, no moe than pkill vlc!!! > > If the process won't die then likely it is a zombie. > > https://en.wikipedia.org

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Ok I got the pid of each instance of vlc. but kill +instance number does not > kill anything, no moe than pkill vlc!!! If the process won't die then likely it is a zombie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process Zombies cannot be killed because they are already

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The Saturday 02 February 2013 00:34:21, Adam Wolfe wrote : > "ps -ef | grep vlc" should show you the pids. > > I'd tried to 'kill' them first. If that doesn't work I usually go > straight for a "kill -9". > "killall vlc" might also work, but I'm not positive. > > On 02/01/2013 06:29 PM, Thierry

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I have 3 instances of vlc that I can not stop. Top does not give me their process number. How can I get ithem to kill them with kill +process number? Or is there athere a other way to do it? Thierry if you process tools installed you can: pkill vlc -- In theory, th

Re: killing a job

2013-02-01 Thread Adam Wolfe
"ps -ef | grep vlc" should show you the pids. I'd tried to 'kill' them first. If that doesn't work I usually go straight for a "kill -9". "killall vlc" might also work, but I'm not positive. On 02/01/2013 06:29 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I have 3 instances of vlc that I can not stop. To