On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 21:55 +0930, Tim wrote: > You can log out and find some things still > running in your name, that haven't quit, and have no reason to still > be > around (it's not as if you started up some services that you wanted to > run in your name, and stay running after you logged out). And if you do, that's what nohup is for. > e.g. Several instances of gvfs-fuse-daemon, crashed mplayers, > gconfd-2, > firefox (that requires a reboot to kill, not even kill -9 will kill > it), If kill -9 won't kill it, it's suspended in an uninterruptible state in the kernel, usually waiting for some "short term" event that will never happen. IOW it's a bug. This sort of thing has always existed in Unix and related systems and is a PITA, but it's not easy to fix. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
