[PLUG] OO running processes, no display

[D. Cooper Stevenson]

Rich,

[snip]
>   Oh. Well, is there anything to be done short of rebooting the system?
[usnip]

I am assuming that the name of the hanging process is something like 'oofice.' Insert the process name that uniquely identifies the process as one that belongs to OpenOffice if that is not the case.

The following performed at the command line will remove any process with the name 'oofice...'

   ps -ef | grep oofice | awk '{ print $2 }' | while read i  [Press Enter]
   do  [Press Enter]
   kill -HUP $i  [Press Enter]
   done [Press Enter]

If they are stubborn, replace the `HUP' signal in the kill command with a '-9'.  Try to run the application again.

Of course, you could simlply kill the processes one at a time but this is handy to know if you run into a process that spawns several child processes. 

When running a large server, you want to do a manual 'ps -ef' and look before you kill.

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