Fedora-core applications can't be killed fully from terminal !

[Alex Catullo]

Did you try xkill?
Run it in a seperate terminal as a normal user.

-Alex Catullo

On 9/30/05, Ankit Patel <ankit644 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have run the "hwbrowser" from the menu. Then i tried
> to kill hwbrowser from terminal.
>
> 1.kill pid_of_hwbrowser
>
> --> This command kills only binary (hwbrowser) run by
> the normal user, not the main application because
> there are many (3) processes running along with
> hwbrowser. and they are.
>
> [ankit at ankit ~]$ ps -aux | grep hwbrowser
> Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
> /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
> ankit     6355  1.0  1.5 18460 8108 pts/2    S
> 12:38   0:00 hwbrowser
> root      6356  0.0  0.2  7472 1396 pts/2    S
> 12:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/userhelper -w hwbrowser
> root      6360  0.0  0.1  6772  952 pts/2    S
> 12:38   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/share/hwbrowser/hwbrowser
> root      6361  8.1  3.3 28276 16976 pts/2   S
> 12:38   0:01 /usr/bin/python
> /usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py
> ankit     6370  0.0  0.1  5816  660 pts/2    R+
> 12:39   0:00 grep hwbrowser
> [ankit at ankit ~]$
>
> 2. So, i thought i need to kill all other processes
> also along with hwbrowser. So,
>
> [ankit at ankit ~]$ killall -g hwbrowser
> [1]+  Terminated              hwbrowser
> [ankit at ankit ~]$ ps -aux | grep hwbrowser
> Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
> /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
> root      6360  0.0  0.1  6772  952 pts/2    S
> 12:38   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/share/hwbrowser/hwbrowser
> root      6361  1.2  3.3 28276 16976 pts/2   S
> 12:38   0:01 /usr/bin/python
> /usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py
> ankit     6373  0.0  0.1  4652  656 pts/2    R+
> 12:40   0:00 grep hwbrowser
>
> Still gui of hwbrowser running.
> If you have run hwbrowser from Menu (gui) then --> All
> other gui applications closed and gnome-panel
> restarted.
> If you have run hwbrowser from same terminal (console)
> then --> Other gui applications and gnome-panel will
> not get affected.
>
> 3. So, finally i thought i need to be root to kill all
> the instances of hwbrowser. And,
>
> [root at ankit ~]# ps -aux | grep hwbrowser
> Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
> /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
> root      6412  0.0  0.1  4656  668 pts/2    S+
> 12:47   0:00 grep hwbrowser
> [root at ankit ~]#
>
> Now hwbrowser killed fully...
> If you have run hwbrowser from Menu (gui) then --> All
> other gui applications closed and gnome-panel
> restarted.
> If you have run hwbrowser from same terminal (console)
> then --> Other gui applications and gnome-panel will
> not get affected.
>
>
> This is not specific to hwbrowser only but most of the
> applications created in python included in fedora-core
> software.
>
>
> So, i want to know is there any solution to kill
> hwbrowser(which have been running from Menu(gui) not
> from the same terminal) without affecting other
> applications?
>
>
> Thank You!
> Ankit Patel
>
>
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