[SOLVED] kill program

jonnynitro138 · 12-08-2011, 09:40 AM

How do I kill a non-responsive program like Banshee media player? I'm using the Ubuntu OS.
Thank you;
jonnynitro138

mrrangerman · 12-08-2011, 09:51 AM

Open a terminal window run the command ps ax find the PID number of the program you want to kill then issue the command kill "PID no" where PID no, is put the PID number so if the program has a PID number of 12345 the command would be kill 12345

Note: Some programs you would need to be root to kill.

jonnynitro138 · 12-08-2011, 10:04 AM

Killed program, thank you for the help.
jonnynitro138

MTK358 · 12-08-2011, 01:46 PM

Note that sometimes just using "kill <PID>" will not work if the program is really unresponsive. If it fails, try "kill -9 <PID>", which directly tells the kernel to just stop running the process. It's better to try the normal way first, though.