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Old 08-10-2004, 06:03 PM   #1
brynjarh
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Can't close a program.. why? how?

Trying to run IE with wine crashed it, now I have numerous wine-preloader running in the background. I did 'killall wine-preloader' but it didn't work, I did 'kill 4159' and it didn't close that program (wine-preloader).

So now I'm pretty much just clueless on what to do, how do I close the program?????
 
Old 08-10-2004, 06:56 PM   #2
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you could try pkill wine-preloader.
just a thought
 
Old 08-10-2004, 07:00 PM   #3
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Doesn't work.
Do I really have to reboot the computer just to close the program?
 
Old 08-10-2004, 07:04 PM   #4
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i cant really say. I use SuSE myself and i dont use wine, although i did try Fedora core recently, i found a lot of the commands i was used to didn't work.
Is the wine-preloader an X program? ie does it have a GUI? you could try xkill if it does.
sorry i cant be more help
 
Old 08-10-2004, 07:08 PM   #5
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Try killall -9 wine-preloader or kill -9 <process ID>.
 
Old 08-10-2004, 07:09 PM   #6
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killall -9 wine-preloader
or
kill -9 4159

Please be careful with the -9 flag... it won't ask questions and it doesn't allow the process time to clean up. But it will kill it.
 
Old 08-10-2004, 07:39 PM   #7
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I tried using the killall -9 and kill -9 command, neather worked, I went to runlevel 3 and then back to runlevel 5 (that would have closed X right?) and that didn't work ether.

I just want to close the program, it can't be this complicated can it?

Well it doesn't really mater though since I'm switching to Debian tomorrow..

When I write 'ps -A' I get:
Code:
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
    1 ?        00:00:05 init
    2 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 ?        00:00:00 events/0
    4 ?        00:00:00 kblockd/0
    6 ?        00:00:00 khelper
    5 ?        00:00:00 khubd
    7 ?        00:00:00 pdflush
    8 ?        00:00:00 pdflush
   10 ?        00:00:00 aio/0
    9 ?        00:00:00 kswapd0
  120 ?        00:00:00 kseriod
  156 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
  677 ?        00:00:00 usb-storage
  678 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
 1362 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
 2763 ?        00:00:00 dhclient
 2809 ?        00:00:00 syslogd
 2813 ?        00:00:00 klogd
 2834 ?        00:00:00 portmap
 2854 ?        00:00:00 rpc.statd
 2881 ?        00:00:00 rpc.idmapd
 2975 ?        00:00:00 smartd
 2985 ?        00:00:00 acpid
 2997 ?        00:00:00 cupsd
 3185 ?        00:00:00 sshd
 3200 ?        00:00:00 xinetd
 3219 ?        00:00:00 sendmail
 3228 ?        00:00:00 sendmail
 3239 ?        00:00:00 gpm
 3250 ?        00:00:00 crond
 3281 ?        00:00:00 xfs
 3300 ?        00:00:00 atd
 3319 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1
 3346 ?        00:00:00 mdadm
 3375 tty2     00:00:00 mingetty
 3377 tty3     00:00:00 mingetty
 3379 tty4     00:00:00 mingetty
 3380 tty5     00:00:00 mingetty
 3381 tty6     00:00:00 mingetty
 3680 ?        00:00:00 bonobo-activati
 3853 ?        00:00:00 su
 3856 ?        00:00:00 bash
 3872 ?        00:00:00 pppd
 3915 ?        00:00:00 ip-down <defunct>
 4094 ?        00:00:00 iexplore
 4098 ?        00:00:11 wineserver
 4095 ?        00:00:02 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4112 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4113 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4114 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4115 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4116 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4117 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4118 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4119 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4120 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4121 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4122 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4123 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4124 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4125 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4126 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4127 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4128 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4129 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4130 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4131 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4132 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4133 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4134 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4135 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4136 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4137 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4138 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4139 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4140 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4141 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4142 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4143 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4144 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4145 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4146 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4149 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4150 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4151 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4152 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4153 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4154 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4155 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4156 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4157 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4158 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4159 ?        00:00:00 wine-preloader <defunct>
 4465 ?        00:00:00 pptp
 4466 pts/8    00:00:00 pppd
 4474 ?        00:00:01 pptp
 5521 ?        00:00:00 anacron
 5718 ?        00:00:00 gdm-binary
 5759 ?        00:00:00 gdm-binary
 5770 ?        00:00:17 X
 5784 tty1     00:00:00 mingetty
 5802 ?        00:00:00 gnome-session
 5843 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
 5847 ?        00:00:01 gconfd-2
 5850 ?        00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
 5852 ?        00:00:00 metacity
 5856 ?        00:00:00 gnome-settings-
 5861 ?        00:00:00 fam
 5875 ?        00:00:00 xscreensaver
 5899 ?        00:00:00 gnome-panel
 5901 ?        00:00:01 nautilus
 5903 ?        00:00:00 magicdev
 5905 ?        00:00:00 eggcups
 5907 ?        00:00:00 pam-panel-icon
 5909 ?        00:00:01 rhn-applet-gui
 5910 ?        00:00:00 pam_timestamp_c
 5913 ?        00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo
 5944 ?        00:00:00 clock-applet
 5946 ?        00:00:00 mapping-daemon
 5948 ?        00:00:00 notification-ar
 5950 ?        00:00:00 mixer_applet2
 5957 ?        00:00:00 wnck-applet
 5959 ?        00:00:00 cdplayer_applet
 5961 ?        00:00:00 multiload-apple
 5963 ?        00:00:00 stickynotes_app
 5968 ?        00:00:00 firefox
 5989 ?        00:00:00 run-mozilla.sh
 5994 ?        00:00:09 firefox-bin
 6005 ?        00:00:03 gnome-system-mo
 6011 ?        00:00:00 gnome-terminal
 6012 ?        00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
 6013 pts/12   00:00:00 bash
 6025 pts/12   00:00:00 ps
Last edited by brynjarh; 08-10-2004 at 07:40 PM.
 
Old 08-12-2004, 01:12 AM   #8
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Dude, kill "wineserver".
 
  


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