how to kill stuff?

ziggamon · 05-26-2003, 01:07 PM

I have a gentoo window that has hanged...
and I don't know how to kill it... how do you?

trickykid · 05-26-2003, 01:10 PM

use the kill command.

man kill for options.

PS. this is asked all the time, a search will find lots on this topic.

Korff · 05-26-2003, 01:11 PM

You can kill everything and reload X with control+alt+backspace. Depending on your distro, if the whole computer isn't frozen (probably isn't - Linux is very stable) you can probably get to Windows-style task manager window

Here's how I do it with RH9:

Hat->System Tools->System monitor->hanging program->end process

ziggamon · 05-26-2003, 01:13 PM

could you plz specify??? I'm really new to this, and I can't seem to find the process id...

trickykid · 05-26-2003, 01:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Korff
You can kill everything and reload X with control+alt+backspace.

As he stated it's only one window that is hanging, just basically find the pid of the program that is hung and kill it with the kill -9 command.. no need to restart X as the could have other programs running.

ziggamon · 05-26-2003, 01:15 PM

how do I find the pid then???

trickykid · 05-26-2003, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ziggamon
could you plz specify??? I'm really new to this, and I can't seem to find the process id...

Bring up a terminal or console and type ps -aux. Find the pid number and then issue the command:

kill -9 <pid of program>

Proud · 05-26-2003, 01:16 PM

Use top or a fancy line with ps piped to grep

ziggamon · 05-26-2003, 01:25 PM

well, I've done all that now...
and killed off some stuff, so my system runs ok again...
thanks so far...

but the ******* gentoo window won't just leave!!!
what to do?
I've exited gentoo, but the window i still there...

fancypiper · 05-26-2003, 01:32 PM

Run xkill.

If you don't have it installed, try this:

Find the process id:

ps -ef | grep -i gentoo

kill <pid>

ziggamon · 05-26-2003, 02:28 PM

thanks a lot!

xkill is a wonderful application, just the one I was looking for...

but the other tips were good too, and I hope I'm not the only one here that has learned something!

//Z

Proud · 05-26-2003, 02:31 PM

Just dont use xkill on an app's taskbar entry, you'll kill the taskbar

fancypiper · 05-26-2003, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Proud
Just dont use xkill on an app's taskbar entry, you'll kill the taskbar

Oh, and you have done that?

Proud · 05-26-2003, 04:20 PM

Yeah, but it's nothing that logging out and back in wont fix

Probably could have started the klipper from the Run... desktop menu option, but as you can see I was still rather new