On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:22:51PM -0400, Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
> Strangley, this happens...
> 
> 
> baal: {236} ps -xa | grep gedit
>   161 ??  Rs   10902:11.95 gedit
> baal: {237} sudo kill 9 161
> baal: {238} ps -xa | grep gedit
>   161 ??  Rs   10903:40.58 gedit
> baal: {239} su
> Password:
> baal: {1} kill 9 161
> baal: {2} ps -xa | grep gedit
>   161 ??  Rs   10904:51.02 gedit

"kill 9 161" attempts to send SIGTERM to process IDs 9 and 161. I
think you want "kill -9 161", to send SIGKILL to process ID 161. (Of
course, gedit _should_ die when it gets a SIGTERM, but if it's hung
pretty badly, it make take a SIGKILL to get it to go away...)
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