[kosuke@rustybear.com] Re: can't kill a PID

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

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• To: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>
• Subject: Re: can't kill a PID
• From: Kevin Coyner <kosuke@rustybear.com>
• Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 06:52:00 -0500
• Message-id: <20021103115200.GA13985@rustybear.com>
• In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20021103114259.GH464@woody.home.lxtec.de>
• References: <[🔎] 20021103113455.GA11545@rustybear.com> <[🔎] 20021103114259.GH464@woody.home.lxtec.de>

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:42:59PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote......

> 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
>

Just tried that, and the monster continues to live .....

Kevin

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