Try kill -9 <pid> sometimes kill doesn't work. When in doubt -9 it :) Works everytime. CTRL+Z simply puts it into the background. Jesus On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:04:16 -0500, David Liguori <liguorid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In another thread a user having problems with yum killed it. I am > curious how he accomplished that. When I run yum (or any other command, > for that matter), it stalls, and I stop it with ctrl-z, the following > happens: > > [1]+ Stopped yum update > [root@tabby ~]# ps > PID TTY TIME CMD > 6179 pts/0 00:00:00 su > 6182 pts/0 00:00:00 bash > 6214 pts/0 00:00:21 yum > 6220 pts/0 00:00:00 ps > [root@tabby ~]# kill 6214 > [root@tabby ~]# ps > PID TTY TIME CMD > 6179 pts/0 00:00:00 su > 6182 pts/0 00:00:00 bash > 6214 pts/0 00:00:21 yum ##still running! > 6221 pts/0 00:00:00 ps > [root@tabby ~]# exit > logout > There are stopped jobs. ##still running! > [root@tabby ~]# > > As you see, the kill command produces no output here, but if I make up a > pid at random it complains no such pid exists. > > I'm running a single Athlon 1 gHz processor, if that is important. > > When I search Bugzilla for "kill" the only relevant hits are from ages > ago in RH 5.1 or so, where a few lines of code run by a non-root user > could kill any process regardless of owner (the opposite problem). This > was apparently fixed and closed. I considered compiling and running the > program as root to see if I had better luck than with kill, but it > doesn't really address the issue. > > Should I file a Bugzilla report, or am I missing something? > > -- > David Liguori > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
