How to dump the locked up program

[Anne Wilson]

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.

Anne
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