Jerry Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:58:42 -0600 > Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process >> will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have >> something to do with You Tube.) When I try to start up another instance >> of Firefox, I get an error message that tells me to either close the >> current process or to reboot the system. Rebooting is not a good >> solution. I remember from the 'old days' that there is a cli command to >> identify a process id and another one to kill a process. I've searched >> my memory and the User Manual but cannot identify those two commands. >> Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated. >> > Try ctrl-alt-Esc. That brings up a skull and crossbones. Click it in > the offending window and you will kill the process. > > From the command line: > ps ax | grep -i firefox > then > kill -9 <process -id> > > Normally I use kill -TERM first, and if that does not kill the process, > then use -9. > How about in KDE <CTRL><ALT><ESC> which brings up a skull and crossbow. However over the GUI you want killed and press the left mouse button.
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