kaffeine crashed again :(

alaios · 09-30-2006, 04:16 AM

Hello to everyone
I have just opened kaffeine cause i wanted to play my dvd. When kaffeine appeared i clicked on open dvd menu. Unfortunately i havent placed the dvd in tray yet so kaffeine stopped responding

After killing kaffeine couldnt start again. I face similar problems like that in amarok and other kde programmes. If a programme crashes then it can be started again

Indkoeti · 09-30-2006, 07:06 AM

Maybee try ps -ax in the konsole that should display all running processes. It is possible that if you kill a program normally an backgruond prcess can still be running and blocks everything, so look out for dysfunctional processes and kill them with kill [process id]

alaios · 09-30-2006, 02:56 PM

Code:

akroneiro:/home/alaios # ps -aux | grep kaffeine
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
alaios    3632  0.0  0.0 140792   900 ?        D    12:08   0:01 kaffeine
root      9079  0.0  0.0   2756   696 pts/2    R+   14:19   0:00 grep kaffeine
akroneiro:/home/alaios # kill -9 3632
akroneiro:/home/alaios # ps -aux | grep kaffeine
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
alaios    3632  0.0  0.0 140792   900 ?        D    12:08   0:01 kaffeine
root      9087  0.0  0.0   2756   712 pts/2    S+   14:20   0:00 grep kaffeine

BiThian · 09-30-2006, 03:24 PM

You should type ps aux | grep kaffeine. A kill -s SIGKILL is just fine. Then, you can restart it .

LE: It seems that Kaffeine is in an "Uninterruptible sleep" (the D field).

alaios · 09-30-2006, 05:19 PM

but -9 is just equal to sigkill

BiThian · 10-01-2006, 12:47 AM

Sorry, didn't see that line...

alaios · 10-01-2006, 03:27 AM

and dp u know why the super-hyper linux cant kill a procesS?

reddazz · 10-01-2006, 04:29 AM

Have you tried something like "killall kaffeine"?

alaios · 10-02-2006, 03:56 AM

sure and dint worik