Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: >> According to Novell, that means it is unkillable short of a reboot. But >> maybe I can supply the i/o it is waiting for... trouble is I cannot find >> it. Doesn't show up in top at all. I see no instances of firefox at >> all. Allegedly it is in the foreground, so shouldn't I be able to see >> it? > > How did you run the firefox process, from a console?
I don't really remember for sure, but the ps wwaux output mentioned a forum on the winamp web pages so I was probably reading the forum. >> Its hard to believe that on linux there can be a process that will >> prevent user from accessing the web browser, and that it cannot be >> killed short of a reboot. > > Yep, that things can happen and sometimes there is no other way but a > reboot. I wonder if `telinit 1' would have done the job? To late to try now since a reboot has gotten rid of the nasty thing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hb34ziww....@newsguy.com
