[PLUG] How to kill firefox.bin

Ali Corbin ali.corbin at gmail.com
Sun Oct 7 21:26:36 UTC 2007


On 10/7/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> It locked up and I can't kill it. I have a Force Quit button that I
> keep on my panel. It appeared to have killed it, but when I try to
> relaunch Firefox it tells me that it is already running. System Monitor
> shows firefox.bin running as a zombie. I right-clicked on it and tried
> all the options (stop process, end process, kill process), but it won't
> die. I opened a terminal and tried top, but it is not listed in top.
> However, System Monitor says it is process 15852, so I just entered
> that in top as the process to kill. Still no joy.
>
> Those are the only ways I know of to kill something. Can someone
> suggest a tool with a heavier payload? Nuclear?

"kill -9 {pid]"  is about as nuclear as you can get.
If that won't do it, you'd probably have to reboot the box.
Ali



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