kill: cannot kill some processes
As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot
be killed. Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to
install a package. After waiting for a long time, I try both Ctrl-c and
Ctrl-z and neither will work. Then I try to kill the process from
another xterm. It looks as if the kill worked, but when I do a ps, the
job is still there. It also just happened with df. I use this to kill:
kill -9 [pid]
Any suggestions?
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Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936
Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
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