killing synaptic

ehdwuld · 10-07-2003, 07:44 AM

Hi
I just installed apt and synaptic

set it to upgrade some rpms

and it has locked up

what is the command line to find the pid

and kill it

DrOzz · 10-07-2003, 08:01 AM

ps -aux |less will give you a list of running processes along with their PIDS, but in any case you can type
killall -15 synaptic and if -15 doesn't work then -9 should take care of it...

ehdwuld · 10-07-2003, 08:17 AM

Xterminator · 10-07-2003, 12:58 PM

:-)
synaptic does not work correctly in background...
it is necessary to bring it in return for foreground,so that it continues the update process.

mossy · 10-07-2003, 01:40 PM

On a similiar note - I run ps -aux -C yourprogramname [C stands for the command you ran].

meldroc · 10-07-2003, 03:21 PM

ps aux | grep foobar is my incantation of choice for finding rogue processes.

killall works as well.

Xterminator · 10-07-2003, 03:38 PM

try

killall apt is more simpliest mode.
the processes used by synaptic such as

apt method http ftp etc...