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#1 2008-12-21 11:41:24
- cinan
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kill -9 not working!
Hi
I try to kill process numbered 13156.
kill 13156 - not working
kill -9 13156 - not working
killall -9 qsvn - not working
killall qsvn - not working
it takes 50% CPU... I don't know what to do 
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#2 2008-12-21 13:02:01
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Re: kill -9 not working!
Sounds like it might be a zombie, if there is a parent then kill it, if not, a reboot might be in order.
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#3 2008-12-21 13:49:05
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Re: kill -9 not working!
I thougth zombie doesn't take any CPU performance...
Reboot? Like windows? There must be some resolution...
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#4 2008-12-21 13:50:15
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Re: kill -9 not working!
Have you tried killing it as root ?
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#5 2008-12-21 13:50:46
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Re: kill -9 not working!
yes, of course...
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#6 2008-12-21 14:32:34
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Re: kill -9 not working!
I have the same problem with Firefox... getting defunct [Zombie!] nothing seems to remove it
For me rebooting is the only solution
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#7 2008-12-21 15:03:36
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Re: kill -9 not working!
Seems to be related... : http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/l … el/1008797
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#8 2008-12-21 16:09:26
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Re: kill -9 not working!
does 'killall nameofzombie' work?
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#9 2008-12-21 17:20:51
- cinan
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Re: kill -9 not working!
theringmaster:
Hi
killall -9 qsvn - not working
killall qsvn - not working
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#10 2008-12-21 21:49:12
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Re: kill -9 not working!
I've had a similar problem before (with tar)... It's the only problem I've come across in Linux that I couldn't find a solution to without a reboot. Annoying when that box is a File Server for 80 staff members 
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#11 2008-12-21 21:55:20
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Re: kill -9 not working!
I haven't come across this bug, but just last week I noticed 6 zombie processes. They were all from Firefox launching mplayer using mplayer-plugin. No amount of killing worked, but restarting Firefox did.
It was the first time I came across zombie processes.
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#12 2008-12-22 08:14:18
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Re: kill -9 not working!
I try to kill process numbered 13156.
how about
sudo kill -s 9 13156?
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#13 2008-12-22 15:38:01
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Do you have any fuse stuff running, but it lost the connection? Things like sshfs produce that issue when I try to run ls on the mountpoint, but I suspended2ram before and so lost the connection.
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#14 2008-12-22 18:20:12
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Re: kill -9 not working!
you can try the pkill command as well. I don't know if that has any better zombie killing powers or not.
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#15 2008-12-22 19:35:26
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Re: kill -9 not working!
hm, I rebooted PC, so I cannot try anything...
bluewind: no, I didn't have any fuse stuff
theringmaster: maybe next time 
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#16 2011-12-09 09:31:47
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Re: kill -9 not working!
Got the same problem of un-killable nautilus and this was a sshfs problem (after a suspend to ram)
So I
$ fusermout -u -z folder
$ killall -9 sshfs
$ killall -9 nautilusAnd then it was ok. Thanks bluewind \o/
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#17 2011-12-09 12:31:36
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Re: kill -9 not working!
Welcome to the forums, alexg, and thanks for the verification.
This thread is however three years old already and could be left read-only now. See our Forum Etiquette on Necro-Bumping.
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