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(s)mplayer with smb sometimes hangs, can't be killed, only reboot works
I'm using a raspberry pi as a NAS, serving video over SMB (sshfs made it skip too much, NFS I never got working). I prefer to watch movies with smplayer, from my Xubuntu laptop (opening the smb share ...
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Kill all processes except the one running the script
I have a aim of killing all processes (Using killall -u myuser) and then restart some processes.
The problem is when the script reaches killall -u myuser it just terminates.
How can I terminate ...
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Package jamming up software center
I tried to install some fonts via software center. Specifically ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
It has been spinning - applying changes - for 25 minutes.
Is this OK?
If not - how do I kill it without ...
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Kill a cron job from cron
I want to start the ubuntu update at night because internet is free at that time. and then kill the process in order to ensure that it does not download anything after 7:00 AM.
Is there any way to ...
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killall doesn't kill all and rarely kills, what is the command for then?
I occasionally use the killall command to kill processes. The reason why I say ocassionally is that in some cases it hasn't worked for me.
A recent example was with thunderbird where there were about ...
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Limiting physical memory of specifc process [duplicate]
Performing research, I am interested in limitting the Physical Memory per specific process.
My requirements:
Limit physical memory consumption for specific program
In case of crossing limitation - ...
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What could be preventing kill, killall and reboot from working?
I have an ubuntu system which uses a USB Drive as the hard disk.
It runs a a few applications continuously (the idea is that it should run for months without interation), no graphical user interface.
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Shell script to -9 kill based on name
Is there a way (perhaps a script) how to automate this process:
petr@sova:~$ ps -ef | grep middleman
petr 18445 2312 1 12:06 pts/2 00:00:01 /home/petr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/bin/middleman ...
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How to force any program to close?
Sometimes programs tell me I can't start it because there is already another instance of it running. Best example would be Firefox and Chromium, but this problem accounts for many applications.
I ...
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How to kill applications like on Windows?
I looked it up on google but I didn't find anything helpful.
Anyway, I was playing Crysis 2 (with PlayOnLinux) and the game crashed, but I could't kill the process, I tried Ctrl+Alt+T but nothing but ...
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Kill Java processes
I'm working on a computationally heavy code that - for now - crashes a lot, but I'm still working on it :) When it crashes, I can't close the GUI window; I have to open a shell and kill -9 the ...
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Doesn't kill the process
I have to kill mysqld process but after it had killed the same process constituted in a different way as a new pid number. e.g :
ak@ak-EasyNote-TM98:~$ ps -aux|grep mysql
mysqld start mysql 6894 ...
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How to kill a java process which is configured in /etc/init.d using normal user via batch file
I have a script which is located in /etc/init.d to run a jar program. I need a batch file to kill this jar program after login, is there anyone know how to do it?
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Killing processes from Java
I have created a Java application that can start processes and capture their PIDs so that the application can monitor the process. The user may later choose to kill the whole process tree (session).
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Kill entire process hierarchy
How do I send a signal (kill, for example) to a process and all its descendants?
Consider this example excerpt from pstree:
|-run-flipper-test(15975)---java(15976)-+-java(17258)-+-{java}(17261)
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How do you monitor the progress of dd?
dd is a wonder allowing you to duplicate a hard drive to another, completely zero a hard drive, etc. But once you launch a dd command, there's nothing to tell you of it's progress. It just sits there ...
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I can't kill a port process
I'm doing in Ubuntu 12
alex@ubuntu:~/folder$ lsof -t -i:3000
4469
alex@ubuntu:~/folder$ kill 4469
alex@ubuntu:~/folder$ lsof -t -i:3000
4469
What did I do wrong?
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Kill a process by giving dir
I'm working on a Control Panel for SA-MP.
Firstly I want to make a start and a close button.
The start button is done, I'm having some problems with the close button.
I will host multiple server on ...
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Game crash/Screen freeze recovery (without shell or reboot) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?
I am an old Windows PC gamer, now converted into Ubuntu (Linux) lover. I am even going so far as to attempt to replace all my games ...
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What is <defunct> for a process and why it doesn't get killed?
The chrome browser was not responsive and I tried to kill it, but instead of disappearing the process had <defunct> at its right, and didn't got killed:
What is <defunct> for a process ...
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How can a frozen/locked-up program/app be closed?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Desktop.
My son and I are playing games on GCompris and several modules freeze/lockup.
When it does, I don't know how to close the program.
I know in Windows I ...
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Xorg becomes unkillable at 3AM
Most nights, some time in the hour of 3AM my xorg process will increase to 100% cpu and gpu load will also increase to 100%. The process also becomes unkillable. I cannot sudo kill -9 it or get back ...
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Why does this 'kill' command log me out of the computer?
The following command signs me out (do not run this command):
kill -9 -1
I don't understand why.
Can someone explain this to me?
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Give group permission to only kill specific process which is started by root
I want the members of a certain group to kill python.
pidof python | xargs kill
This is no problem when python has been started by themself. But when root has started a python process than the users ...
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Why does my application crash without updating the log file (used '> my.log')
I am running mCruiseOn Server, which is a java based server side application (sockets, multiple threads, memcached, mysql) on a Micro EC2. It has been crashing often. I suspect memory usage may have ...
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How to add the kill button in xfce4-panel 4.10.0 of Xubuntu 12.10?
When I was using Gnome 2, I had the option of add a kill button on the panel, but on xfce4-panel 4.10.0 this button is not an option, I think it's necessary add it manually, creating a new luncher. ...
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How to empty the queue of pending notifications?
I have an application that went completely crazy and sent (it seems like) hundreds of notifications to the notification daemon. Now I've been getting notification bubbles for the last few minutes and ...
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SAK: killed process 17832 (console-kit-dae): fd#10 opened to the tty
I just ran dmesg from the command line, and it was flooded with this single line; SAK: killed process <pid> (console-kit-dae): fd#10 opened to the tty
What does it mean? How do I get it fixed?
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Start a process with a name
Basically I want to dynamically start some processes which may create their own children processes, also I want to kill a certain group of processes I just created whenever I want. One way I could ...
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How to deal with a frozen screen? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?
My OS is Ubuntu 12.04. Sometimes the screen suddenly becomes frozen, except that the mouse can move around. I have no choice but to ...
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Fresh install of 12.04 Kernel panic
I am attempting to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my computer. After the Ubuntu splash screen, the computer throws up this error:
sr 2:0:1:0: [sr0] Unhandled error code
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted ...
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how to Create SIGQUIT as command in the command line?
I am a total noob in shell scripting. I am creating .sh file to make some multiple commands, but my problem is that the last command is an executable file that after excuting it stays open and the ...
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Stop Ubuntuone-syncdaemon from running in background automatically
Is there a way to stop ubuntuone-syncdaemon automatically (and all other Ubuntu One related processes) from running in the background after I quit the Ubuntu One app? Like when you quit Dropbox, it ...
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How can I reload the Unity to show changes? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I restart Unity
When I make changes to elements in Unity's launcher and the search-layer, like the icons, the changes are not reflected immediately. How can I ...
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How can I kill an application after a specific amount of time? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Automatically close application after custom time?
I want to stop/kill my totem player after a specific amount of time. Can it be done?
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Suspending a process and resume after a system shutdown/reboot
Under Ubuntu you can suspend a process by
kill -STOP [process ID]
and resume by
kill -CONT [process ID]
But my question is, does this also work after a full system shutdown/reboot ? Will the ...
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How to kill compiz that won't die? [closed]
I believe the problem may be related to this question.
I logged twice to guest account. The first time I've chosen unity and something went wrong. The other time I used gnome shell, it worked for a ...
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How do I kill processes in Ubuntu?
How do I kill all processes running by my own non-root account?
I have some spinning smbd processes that I caused from my windows machine and so I telnetted into the linux server and I want to kill ...
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How to kill only if process is running?
Currently I use line like this in my sh script file:
kill `ps aux | grep -F 'myServer' | grep -v -F 'grep' | awk '{ print $2 }'`
But I wonder how to call it only if process (myServer here) is ...
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How to kill non-responsive GUI task under Unity?
I am searching for a newuser-friendly way to kill non-responsive GUI applications under Unity.
I looked over the shoulder of a new Unity user who tried to use gscan2pdf - and gscan2pdf seems to be ...
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How do I kill a kernel thread? And do I really want to do so?
As I've learned from this question, [bracketed] processes listed by the ps aux command are kernel threads. So is there a way to kill them from the command line? If not, I guess the reason for that is ...
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How to kill the process that 'sudo kill -9' can't kill without reboot?
I have tried to kill the process:
sam@sam-desktop:~$ ps -aux|grep sda
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
root 2898 0.0 0.0 0 0 ...
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Kill a process at startup
So I switched to Gnome Shell on my 11.10 install. One annoyance is that whenever I insert a removable drive, nautilus opens the drive and at the same time gnome shell displays its popup. I discovered ...
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killing process with kill -9 causes reboot [closed]
I use KVirc client. Occasionally, the chat client will suddenly only allow a single character to be typed into the input pane. When I kill the KVirc process using kill -9, the entire system reboots. ...
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Killing Subprocess in Ubuntu NOT the Parent?
I want to kill a process in Ubuntu.
I have Java installed and Running JBOSS & Tomcat at background. I need to kill Tomcat after deployment but when I kill it JBOSS is going too.
I had to use
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What is the difference between using System Monitor and Terminal to kill a process?
When I shutdown my minecraft it never closes all the way, I have looked for a solution but found none. After awhile I gave up and decided that I would manually kill it when I wanted to close it.
If I ...
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Can i automatically kill any application that uses more than a certain percentage of the CPU and/or RAM?
What i need from my computer, now that it's summer at least, should never use a lot of resources - when applications do so it's because of some kind of bug or memory leak.
Is there any way to ...
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How to get rid of Transmission zombie process? [closed]
Problem:
I was downloading a file over Transmission when I noticed that the Transmission window was grayed out and not responding. On clicking it, Ubuntu (10.04) asked to force-close which I did. What ...
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Unable to kill process with 'kill -9' whose PPID=1 and using 100% of CPU?
Direct Question: Flash under firefox 4.0, npviewer.bin, in KUbuntu 10.04 was running at 100% and I couldn't kill it. I tried:
sudo kill -9 12996
sudo kill -15 12996
I logged in as root and ran ...
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How can I find out, which jar-files java is currently running (and their PIDs)?
I have a .jar file which is notorious for malfunctions. When a malfunction occurs, only a restart helps. I have a way to detect that malfunctions (reading the log-file of said .jar) So I want to write ...
