Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-21 Thread Rick Stevens
Todd Denniston wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote, On 12/23/-28158 02:59 PM: I've added the option soft to the client /etc/fstab which may make it possible to interrupt things? That is, if I have done the right thing in the right place. Bob Assuming that after you reboot[1], the situation is

Re: Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-21 Thread Todd Denniston
Rick Stevens wrote, On 12/23/-28158 02:59 PM: Todd Denniston wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote, On 12/23/-28158 02:59 PM: I've added the option soft to the client /etc/fstab which may make it possible to interrupt things? That is, if I have done the right thing in the right place. Bob Assuming

Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable amount if time. Gkrellm showed cup1 running at max. and top indicated the cup at 99.5%. Something did

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 8/20/09, Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: I don't expect anyone to troubleshoot the problem but would like to know what other commands I might try to restore things without shutting down and rebooting. kill -9 pid can be pretty effective. Andras -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Bob Goodwin wrote: I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable amount if time. Gkrellm showed cup1 running at max. and top indicated the cup at

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable amount if time. Gkrellm

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
Andras Simon wrote: On 8/20/09, Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: I don't expect anyone to troubleshoot the problem but would like to know what other commands I might try to restore things without shutting down and rebooting. kill -9 pid can be pretty effective. Andras

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
Christopher K. Johnson wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable amount if time. Gkrellm showed cup1 running at max.

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Bob Goodwin wrote: I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable amount if time. Gkrellm showed cup1 running at max. and top indicated the cup at

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
Howard Wilkinson wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable amount if time. Gkrellm showed cup1 running at max. and top

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 12:31 -0700, Peter Langfelder wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs server. It would not shut

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 12:31 -0700, Peter Langfelder wrote: As previously stated, use kill -9 pid. The kill command without the -9 only works if the process actually listens to signals, which is not likely if it's stuck in some (semi-)infinite loop. To be

Re: Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Todd Denniston
Bob Goodwin wrote, On 12/23/-28158 02:59 PM: I've added the option soft to the client /etc/fstab which may make it possible to interrupt things? That is, if I have done the right thing in the right place. Bob Assuming that after you reboot[1], the situation is better with soft, I would

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
Todd Denniston wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote, On 12/23/-28158 02:59 PM: I've added the option soft to the client /etc/fstab which may make it possible to interrupt things? That is, if I have done the right thing in the right place. Bob Assuming that after you reboot[1], the situation is