Re: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 10:22:21PM +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote
> This frustrating little problem...
>
> When having a running process, ctrl-c or kill doesn't work on my system.
> You have to use kill -9.
>
> A simple example:
> ping 127.0.0.1
> this process is meant to run as long as you want, then you ctrl-c it to
> get your statistics.
> However, ctrl-c doesn't work. No reaction whatsoever, the program just
> keeps on running.
> So I have to ctlr-z it to reclaim my command line, then kill -9.
> Normal "kill" is likewise. No reaction, no error messages, the process
> just keeps on running.
> It affects all programs as far as I can see.
> I'm using debian 2.1 (slink. Long story and a slow connection.) with the
> latest updates, gnome-icewm and bash.
> Sure gnome is marked experimental here, but..
> Where could the problem be?
> Kernel? It's a customized debian-source-2.0.38 kernel, but the most
> exceptional thing about *that* is ip-masquerading support.
>
> I'm numbskulled here, so any support appreciated.
>
It may be an stty problem; if you type
stty -a
at the command prompt you will see the settings for your tty;
one of them is "intr", which denotes the key used to send a
SIGINT to applications. It should be:
intr = ^C
If yours is not then that would explian it, but then you'ld have to
figure out how it got that way.
John P.
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