Fedora Users — How to force logoff remotely?

This morning I found the screen on my Fedora box blank and the keyboard and mouse unresponsive. I could have rebooted, but I decided to try fix the problem less drastically. In my Solaris days, I could sometimes remotely log into a frozen workstation and kill the login process. Looking to do the same this morning, I ssh'ed into the fedora box from a Win2k laptop. The lowest numbered process owned by the user was this one:

andrew    4886     1  0 Jan11 ?        00:00:00 [gnome-session <defunct>]

The name "gnome-session" looked promising, so I tried a 'kill -(harrison ford) 4886'. There appeared to be no effect.

I've included the entire process list below. Is there something I can do to force the logoff short of rebooting?

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson

[root@orpheus root]# ps -ef | sort -n +1 | more UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:04 init [5] root 2 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [keventd] root 3 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kapmd] root 4 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 6 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [bdflush] root 7 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kupdated] root 8 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [mdrecoveryd] root 14 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [ahc_dv_0] root 15 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [ahc_dv_1] root 16 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_0] root 17 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_1] root 20 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] root 86 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [khubd] root 3717 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] root 3718 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] root 3719 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] root 3720 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] root 3721 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] root 3722 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] root 3781 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [knodemgrd_0] root 3782 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [knodemgrd_1] root 4151 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 syslogd -m 0 root 4155 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 klogd -x rpc 4183 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 portmap rpcuser 4203 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd root 4258 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apmd -p 10 -w 5 -W -P/etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmscript root 4298 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smartd root 4316 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 cupsd root 4354 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 4370 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid ntp 4393 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 ntpd -U ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g root 4415 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections smmsp 4424 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00for /var/spool/clientmqueue root 4435 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [gpm <defunct>] root 4445 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 crond xfs 4470 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon root 4493 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 atalkd -f /etc/atalk/atalkd.conf root 4494 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D root 4498 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 nmbd -D daemon 4517 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/atd dbus 4527 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1 --system root 4539 1 0 Jan11 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 root 4540 1 0 Jan11 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 root 4541 1 0 Jan11 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 root 4542 1 0 Jan11 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 root 4543 1 0 Jan11 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 root 4544 1 0 Jan11 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 root 4621 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 papd -f /etc/atalk/papd.conf root 4625 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 afpd -c 20 -n orpheus -f /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.default -s /etc/atalk/AppleVolumes.system andrew 4886 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-session <defunct>] andrew 4939 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients andrew 4943 1 34 Jan11 ? 08:13:22 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 5 andrew 4948 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [esd <defunct>] andrew 4950 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [bonobo-activati <defunct>] andrew 4956 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-settings- <defunct>] andrew 4984 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:01 [gnome-panel <defunct>] andrew 4986 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:05 [nautilus <defunct>] andrew 4997 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:51 [magicdev <defunct>] andrew 4999 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [eggcups <defunct>] andrew 5001 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [pam-panel-icon <defunct>] andrew 5003 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:04 [rhn-applet-gui <defunct>] root 5004 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [pam_timestamp_c <defunct>] andrew 5006 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [notification-ar <defunct>] andrew 5014 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [mixer_applet2 <defunct>] andrew 5016 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [mapping-daemon <defunct>] andrew 5018 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:03 [wnck-applet <defunct>] andrew 5068 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [consolehelper-g <defunct>] root 5069 1 0 Jan11 ? 00:00:00 [userhelper <defunct>] andrew 5231 1 0 00:36 ? 00:00:00 [gnome-terminal <defunct>] andrew 5233 1 0 00:36 ? 00:00:00 [bash <defunct>] andrew 6352 1 0 04:18 ? 00:00:00 [stairs <defunct>] root 6358 1 0 04:21 ? 00:00:00 [init <defunct>] root 6399 4354 0 12:31 ? 00:00:00 sshd: root@pts/0 root 6401 6399 0 12:31 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash root 6452 6401 0 12:35 pts/0 00:00:00 ps -ef root 6453 6401 0 12:35 pts/0 00:00:00 sort -n +1 root 6454 6401 0 12:35 pts/0 00:00:00 more