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fourreux

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Registered: 2008-03-12

Posts: 56

[solved] can't kill vlc

Hi

This happens for the second time now. Last time my quick solution was to reboot ....

I startet vlc on a video_ts folder on a usb-stick. when I want to umount the volume ist says:

DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.NotFound: The given mount was not found

If I do that in the console it gives:

device is busy.
        (In some cases useful info about processes that use
         the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))

the process is vlc:

fourreux 19727  0.0  0.7 134276 16332 tty1     Sl   15:43   0:00 vlc file:///home/fourreux/usb/video_ts

but I cannnot kill it. tried kill, pkill and killall .... what else is ther to try?

ah! and the funny thing about it is that this video_ts folder is not there anymore, because I deleted it. but I don't remember what caused the crash, i.e. whether vlc crashed from the beginnig or that it was still running when I deleted the files ...

Last edited by fourreux (2009-02-13 15:43:46)

andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: [solved] can't kill vlc

Try 'kill -9'.

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fourreux

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Registered: 2008-03-12

Posts: 56

Re: [solved] can't kill vlc

thanx.

but this gives only:

kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]

and the process is still there

but as the vlc bothers me only insofar that i can't umount the usb, I can just plug it out, plug in again and redo the changes i want to do to it ... not very elegant though

fourreux

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Registered: 2008-03-12

Posts: 56

Re: [solved] can't kill vlc

uuuuuuuuuups. silly me

have to do it with process id of course!

did the job. thanx!