Cornelius Creedon (neil@box1.staller.sunysb.edu)
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:11:58 -0500 (EST)
D is 'uninterruptible sleep'
are you trying 'kill -9 pid'?
if you reallly want to kill it try that.
kill w/o a signal argument sends TERM... kill -9 sends KILL.
(man kill...)
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On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jacek Perry wrote:
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> Hello
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> I tried to post this on Friday but for some reason it didn't go
> through. At least I didn't get the original message nor replys to it
> in my mail box. However if this is repeat then I appologize to
> everyone.
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> Anyway I have a quick question. For some reason I can't allways kill
> jobs. Especially if they are running in Xwindows. For instance when
> my Netscape hangs I can't kill it. I go to a shell and type ps. Then
> I issue command kill pid. However that doesn't kill it. When I do ps
> again.... the netscape is still there. Next to the process I see D
> which I assume stands for dead. But when I go back to Xwindows there
> it is Netscape all hanged and filling up my screen. The only way I am
> able to get rid of this problem is by rebooting the system. However
> this is Linux there has to be better way to handle that!
>
> Thanks
> Jacek Perry
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