I cannot reproduce this here. sleep 100 & killall sleep
works fine for me in Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 4 amd64 (with updates as of 2009-08-16): Script started on Sun 16 Aug 2009 06:54:43 PM PDT jonat...@black:~$ sleep 100 & [1] 28262 jonat...@black:~$ killall sleep [1]+ Terminated sleep 100 jonat...@black:~$ exit exit Script done on Sun 16 Aug 2009 06:55:00 PM PDT Doing it with the sleep 100 in a separate terminal also works fine for me. -- can only kill processes with -9 in karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412972 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs