On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. > > I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs > server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable amount if time. > Gkrellm showed cup1 running at max. and top indicated the cup at 99.5%. > Something did eventually time out but that did not calm the cup activity.: . > > 3487 bobg 20 0 2928 1068 932 R 99.5 0.0 445:55.55 gam_server > > Kill 3487 does not stop it. In fact nothing seems to. I told it to poweroff > and it got as far as "halting system" and stayed there until I pressed the > power button for five seconds or so. > > This happened once last night and it sat there saying it was busy, the power > button was required to kill it then too. > > I don't expect anyone to troubleshoot the problem but would like to know > what other commands I might try to restore things without shutting down and > rebooting. > > This is an F-10 system pretty much up to date, certainly all security > updates and perhaps all the rest, I've lost track at the moment. I suspect > the problem is related to some horse photo files from my daughters Mac. But > I need a way to stop things when this happens ... > > Any help appreciated. > > Bob As previously stated, use kill -9 <pid>. The kill command without the -9 only works if the process actually listens to signals, which is not likely if it's stuck in some (semi-)infinite loop. HTH, Peter -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
