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

[Rupert <rupert.debian@hotpop.com>]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 13:10:14 +0100
Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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

I've done something along the lines of

  while killall -9 xmms; echo -n .; sleep 1; done

in the past, with varying success. 

Rupert