[PLUG] How to kill firefox.bin

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Sun Oct 7 22:38:12 UTC 2007


# from John Jason Jordan
# on Sunday 07 October 2007 14:50:

>Thanks all. kill -9 15852 didn't work. I rebooted. But at least I
> learned a new kill command.

That's odd.  Maybe there were more.  Next time try `ps ax | grep 
firefox` or maybe `killall -9 /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin` 
(assuming that this is the absolute path you see in ps.)

Kill should always work on userland hang-ups (i.e. anything not 
involving the kernel (like mount) should easily get the rug pulled from 
under it without a reboot), and typically without even needing root 
intervention so long as you're the owner of the given process.

--Eric
-- 
"But as to modern architecture, let us drop it and let us take
modernistic out and shoot it at sunrise."
--F.L. Wright
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