sudo kill -9 20774 The dash 9 causes a "sure kill".
Next time kill interactive processes with control c. Control z suspends the process, and returns control to the command line. Hope this helps -- Patrick Timlick On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:32 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net>wrote: > This evening I was trying to install a program from source. Yeah, I > should know better. But I have what appear to be superb detailed > instructions. Except that the instructions are for Ubuntu so they are > full of apt-get commands, but generally all I have to do is replace > apt-get with yum. > > There was a command: > > sudo yum install qt4-dev-tools libqt4-opengl-dev libqtwebkit-dev > > It executed without error, but after 15 minutes I assumed it was hung, > so I killed it with Ctrl-Z. Then I tried it again, but just the > qt4-dev-tools. This gave me: > > Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 20774. > Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... > The other application is: yum > > So I tried 'sudo kill 20774' and the command executed without error, > but yum is still running. I tried killing 20774 from sudo top, and > again it executed without error, and still failed to kill yum. > > I can't do anything until I figure out how to drive a stake through > yum's heart. Any suggestions? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- p.j.timl...@ieee.org www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 10990 NE Paren Springs Rd. Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug