Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Sunday,  8 January 2006 at 15:32:11 +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote:
> Richard Lyons wrote:
[...]
> 
> >console, makes no difference) background is blacked, and a small cursor
> >appears at the end of the first line -- then it freezes and is
> >unkillable.  I now have six mc processes showing in ps, but cannot
> >kill any of them. 
[...]
> 
> My bets are on acroread, because:
> 
> 1) It is not in Debian, so nobody checked for what it does on ones system.
> 2) Being non-free software it can do whatever weird things it does 
> without you knowing it.
> 
> Run debsums and see if it messed up anything and reinstall the affected 
> packages. 

I had not even installed debsums!
Getting it now.

By the way, there is no such thing as unkillable, "killall -9 
> mc" and "killall -9 acroread" should get rid of them.

They are still there...

bordello:/home/richard# killall -9 mc
bordello:/home/richard# ps ax | grep mc
32642 ?        S      0:00 mc
32659 ?        S      0:00 mc
32662 ?        S      0:00 mc
32681 ?        S      0:00 mc
  315 tty2     S+     0:00 mc
 1311 ?        S      0:00 mc
 1525 pts/15   R+     0:00 grep mc

-- 
richard