Why doesn't kill work?

[Maxim Eremeev]

Jonathan Berry wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:52:22 -0500, Robert Locke <rlocke at ralii.com> wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 21:04 -0500, David Liguori wrote:
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>>>In another thread a user having problems with yum killed it.  I am
>>>curious how he accomplished that.  When I run yum (or any other command,
>>>for that matter), it stalls, and I stop it with ctrl-z, the following
>>>happens:
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>>First question, why are you stopping it with Ctrl-Z??  Ctrl-Z puts it to
>>sleep into the background.  Why not use Ctrl-C which is the intended
>>approach?
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>This is kind of an aside, but if yum is downloading packages, Ctrl+C
>will not kill it.  Instead, yum will switch to a different mirror to
>download the packages from.  This is handy if it happens to pick a
>slow mirror.  Just hit Ctrl+C and it will try another one (assuming
>you have it set up to use multiple mirrors).  This makes it a little
>harder to kill, though, during this stage.
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>Jonathan
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Well, it still can work - you just need to hit it several times in a row 
- worked for me at least - just yesterday.
Maxim.