On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:43:47PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> I tried kill -9 and got nowhere, but the 'ps aux | grep -i yum' command
> produced a fair list of processes. I killed them all, but 20774 was
> still running. Finally I used 'sudo kill -KILL 20774.' It executed
> without error and Yum is finally gone. Apparently -KILL is stronger
> than -9, or at least here it was.
For future reference, from the kill man page:
Name Num Action Description
...
KILL 9 exit cannot be blocked
-KILL and -9 are the same.
sudo made the difference.
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