I was able to login from another computer, used top to view the PID for the game, and then issued a kill command. Is there an easier way to recover without having to reboot the system?
2 Answers
Try CMD-Option-Esc
Normally, that will bring the force quit dialog to the front and allow you to kill anything.
I assume the killing didnt work and that is why you rebooted?
try kill -9 [pid]
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No, killing it did work, but my wife and kids probably won't be able to use Terminal, ssh, top, and kill [pid] the next time it crashes. Jan 13, 2011 at 14:06
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good call but you could write a script that greps for the pid and then kills it =)– madmazeJan 14, 2011 at 18:52
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