[PLUG] All applications died

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Fri Aug 9 18:44:51 UTC 2013


On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 11:37:29 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:

>I've had one application die, I've had the entire OS die, I've had X
>die, but I've never even heard of having all running apps die
>simultaneously.
>
>I'm wondering if there is a global kill-9 command that might have been
>invoked somehow. But the only apps that died were those on the desktop;
>all the numerous service apps that run in the background were
>apparently unaffected.

Never mind. They didn't all die. They disappeared from the desktop, but
some were still running. I discovered that when I tried to launch
Update Manager and it said it was waiting for Synaptic to quit. The Task
Manager GUI told me what was running and killed them for me. 

Still very strange. 



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