On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 the mental interface of Kevin Coyner told: > > I always thought that with 'kill -9 PID' you could clean up just about > any process, but I've run into one that just won't go ... > > sakura:~$ ps aux |grep xmms > kosuke 9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms > kosuke 9027 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:16 0:00 [xmms <defunct>] > > I've tried 'kill -9 9026 9027', but every time I go back and ps/grep it, > it's still there. And in the meantime, if I try to start a new xmms, it > will start a new PID in addition to 9026, but the program itself won't > show up. > > Brainwashed from too many early years in the MS world, I'm tempted to > reboot. But hoping there's a better, Linux way to clean this up. killall -9 xmms HTH -- Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing;-)
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