On Monday 21 May 2001 20:41, bascule wrote:
> i have just had to reboot to kill two processes that i otherwise couldn't
> kill; cdda2wav and cdrecord, both were left running after xcdroast crashed,
> and although i issued the command 'kill (pid here)' they were still
> running, repeating the command did not give the 'no such pid' error and
> ksysguard still showed them running with the same pid, is there some other
> guaranteed way to kill processes, i needed to kill them because i was
> unable to restart xcdroast and it seemed obvious that these two errant
> processes were the reason why,
>
> tia bascule
Almost always specifying kill -9 <pid> will work. If it doesn't, then try
sync
killall5
This will leave you ready to hit the reset key.
Civileme
