On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 03:01:50PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: > On 07/22/2009 02:07 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:02:09PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have noticed on several occasions, that running "kill -9<pid>" on >>> a GUI 3D process that is locked at 100% CPU usage (X-Server 100% also) >>> does not work. The 100% lockup I'm sure is due to the currently buggy >>> 3D support (ATI in my case), but I am surprised that I cannot kill >>> either the GUI or X processes. Only a reboot appears to work. >>> >>> Has something changed here ?? >> >> If you provide more details, such as the actual process you're >> running, people might be able to try to duplicate the problem. I've >> never seen an occasion where kill -9 didn't work, but that doesn't >> mean it's not possible with some horribly written code. >> > The system in question is a dual Xeon system running Fedora-11 with all updates > to 2009-07-22. Graphics board is an ATI RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]. > I have some applications installed from rpmfusion including paraview. > > Currently if I run paraview, X goes to 100% and I can no longer > operate the system via mouse/keyboard. Via a network login I > can "killall -9 X" but that does nothing to X. I have also > tried killing paraview in the same way with no effect (possibly > after trying to kill X). > > I know 3D is horribly broken in F11 :( as well as many other things, > but I would have thought that kill -9 should still work ... Isn't it 'killall -9 Xorg'? And you'd probably need to issue that command as root, otherwise permission denied. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
