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02-16-2005, 03:57 PM
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Registered: Feb 2005
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04
Posts: 100
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Terminating an unresponsive program
XMMS has crashed when I tried to use a different output plugin, its frozen and wont close. How can I terminate the program externally? I tried ps -af and nothing for xmms is listed, any ideas?
Cheers,
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02-16-2005, 03:59 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Third rock from the Sun
Distribution: NetBSD-2, FreeBSD-5.4, OpenBSD-3.[67], RHEL[34], OSX 10.4.1
Posts: 1,197
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ps ax | grep xmms
kill -9 <pidFromAbove> |
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02-16-2005, 04:07 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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You can just run "xkill" from a terminal, menu or the "run program" dialogue and then click on the program you want to kill.
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02-16-2005, 04:12 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Third rock from the Sun
Distribution: NetBSD-2, FreeBSD-5.4, OpenBSD-3.[67], RHEL[34], OSX 10.4.1
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xkill removes a client window's connection from the X server. It doesn't make any attempt whatsoever to stop the program that drew the window, and will 99% of the time leave it running...
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02-16-2005, 04:25 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2005
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04
Posts: 100
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Cheers for that, just what I needed. This forum saves me yet again.
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02-16-2005, 04:48 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: earth
Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
Posts: 23,067
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How about
skill -9 xmms
? :)
Cheers,
Tink
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