On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:30 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 28 September 2009 15:04:08 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:24 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > > Vincent Onelli wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > Is there way to dump the program stop responding, instead of do a full > > > > reboot?. > > > > > > What you are calling "dump" is probably called "kill" in the Unix > > > world. And program is better spelled process. > > > > > > So, a simple Google search for "How do I kill a process in Linux?" > > > will give you a lot of answers. > > > > > > In a console: > > > kill 666 > > > (where 666 is the PID of the process) > > > > > > Via GUI, it depends on GNOME, KDE, whatever you are using (it could be > > > Ctrl-Esc or similar key commands). > > > > A couple of extra points: > > > > 1) The "kill" command doesn't technically kill the process, it sends it > > a signal. "kill -l" gives a list of possible signals. The default signal > > (SIGTERM) can be caught by the process. This is to allow it to clean up > > before finishing (and it might decide not to finish at all). SIGKILL on > > the other hand cannot be caught. > > > > 2) Sometimes a process cannot be killed even with SIGKILL (because it's > > waiting in the kernel on some event that will never happen) and a reboot > > is the only answer. > > > In many distros the key-combination ctrl-alt-Esc starts kill - producing a > skull and crossbones icon, which you then move to the titlebar of the gui > application you want to kill. If you change your mind, Esc gets you out of > it. Interesting, I'd never seen that. It seems to be the same as the xkill command, which I sometimes find useful. However the OP didn't say he wanted to kill a GUI client. Also, xkill doesn't send any signals, it just closes the connection from the X client to the X server. Most clients then commit suicide, but nothing forces them to. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
