kill a linux process that won’t die
Uncategorized February 25th, 2004Trying to kill a process in linux and it just won’t die?
Try this:
kill -s 9 [PID]
DEAD
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April 18th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Thanks for the tip, but it didn’t work for me. I was trying to run:
sudo mt -f /dev/std0 erase
to erase a tape and it got stuck. I’ve tried logging out of my session, using ’sudo kill -KILL (PID)’ and your suggestion and have not yet been able to make it dead.
Anything else I can try? Thanks!
December 28th, 2007 at 11:11 am
I just tried it and it worked when I thought my computer was frozen. Except I did:
kill -9 [PID]
without that “s” thrown in there.
July 4th, 2008 at 1:59 am
works like a charm;
eg. meld was stuck on ubuntu with large folders
“kill -9 meld” did not work
“kill -s 9 meld” id did