Questions tagged [kill]
kill is a UNIX/Linux command to signal a process, by default with a signal to terminate the process. It can also be used to force a process to quit immediately without cleanly exiting or to tell a process to take some action (e.g. to signal a httpd to reread its configuration without restarting).
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macOS rapportd what it is and how to remove it
I noticed from the activity monitor this process called rapportd, it seems to also use a port.
If I try to kill the process, it recreates another one.
If I run the launchctl list command, I find it in ...
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How do you kill a process that can't be killed with kill -9?
Context: I need to create a floppy disk. I have a modern USB floppy disk drive, I want to run badblocks first to ensure that the "new" (new floppy disks are actually old new stock) floppy ...
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How to stop a non-killable process on a Ubuntu VM running on windows 10?
On windows 10 I have a Oracle VM VirtualBox running with Ubuntu 20.04.5 and sometimes an application (started with sudo) just "hangs". I am not able to kill the job using
kill -9 <...
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What to do when *nothing* will stop a mv command that did not finish
See screenshot. As you can see, I've tried all the things that I've read about to use. Nothing can kill this dang mv command.
The last line with "mv: failed" has been there for 12+ hours, ...
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Immediate task kill for Windows 10/11?
I have a full screen application that sometimes hangs up and then suddenly slows my entire PC down my littering the system memory and hogging the CPU at 100% load. I know that you can kill apps using ...
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how to get linux "kill -SIG pidlist" to report which PIDs it had killed really?
I am using Kubuntu 22.04 and in the moment KNOPPIX 9.1.
kill -SIGSPEC pidlist
does not reliably kill nor it reports which PIDs it kills and which not.
In all my linunx live of about 30 years allways I ...
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End task when access is denied (even when using cmd taskkill / powershell kill)
I have found a process running on my computer "rsEngineSvc.exe" and i want to uninstall this application from my laptop, meaning i must end the process to do so.
I have tried using taskkill ...
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How to kill this C program running inside tmux?
I'm testing a C program which has a section like this:
#include <iostream>
#include <unistd.h>
#define LOOP_MAX 100
int main() {
for (int i = 0; i < LOOP_MAX; i++) {
printf(&...
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Kill Linux of Chromebook installed via Linux
Some aplications I need (like VLC player, Office, etc) I instaled via linux beta on my Chromebooks. It works fine most of the time but when one of those processes crashes I can't kill it or restart it ...
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How to kill a process on ubuntu that won't die?
I am trying to kill this process that seems to be stuck in a loop:
> ps auxww | grep -E '^USER|bash'
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
ubuntu 61505 99.7 ...
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Killall -9 chrome, but not chrome-beta
Both Google Chrome and Google Chrome Beta are named "chrome" in the process list.
I want to kill all instances of chrome, but keep all instances of chrome beta;)
Any pointers as to what ...
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sudo kill -9 pid doesn't kill softwareupdated in mac
I have a process softwareupdated which is consuming lot of data. I just want to close the process as I dont want to update .
I tried sudo kill -9 pid but it doesn't kill softwareupdated in mac.
I keep ...
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Kill bash/terminal/tty window/session from another terminal
Linux ThinkPad-E480 5.8.0-50-generic #56~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 12 21:46:35 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I have just encountered with the next situation: suspend command do nothing but ...
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How to safely kill bash/zsh/other shells with its history stored?
Shell programs do not react to SIGINT, so kill $(pidof shell) can not kill them. When I use kill -9 $(pidof shell), the shell immediately exited as I expected, but the history in the session is lost.
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How to kill a focused window in Xdotool, but keep some windows out?
I have a shortcut ctrl+alt+x to kill a focused window with
xdotool getwindowfocus windowkill
I am on GNOME, X11 with lightdm, and when all windows have been killed and I press the shortcut gnome-...
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Cant Kill Task Windows
I can not kill firefox.exe which appears to be running having some kind of problem. I tried taskkill and the solution in a prevous answer, but as one of the comments says
When I call terminate it ...
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What is the point of the "/T" flag for taskkill?
taskkill /? says:
This tool is used to terminate tasks by process id (PID) or image name.
Listing the flags, it goes:
/T Terminates the specified process and any child processes ...
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Is there a "nicer" way to close applications in Windows other than "taskkill"? (In the terminal.)
"Kill" sounds kind of harsh, as if I'm KILLING the process with an axe, suddenly, without forewarning, cutting off whatever work it might be doing right away, when I actually just want to ...
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Is it safe to use 'kill -9 -1' on ubuntu
I am using ubuntu 20.04, and sometimes due to some problems, my system hangs or glitches a bit so I run 'kill -9 -1' on the terminal to kill all the processes and the problems are solved.
My question ...
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Created a looping Automator application. Now process is running indefinitely by launchd and cannot kill it
I'm losing my mind.
I created a super simple Application in Mac Automator which just runs a one-line Python script and then has a loop action at the end. I ran this and it started working. Then no ...
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How to Kill Google Chrome Process Suspended (Access Denied)
Often (at least 3 times a day) my google chrome gets suspended on the task manager and there is nothing I can do to kill the process but to restart the system. And restarting my computer is so much is ...
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MySQL was killed by watchdog/snapd ubuntu ec2, watchdog is not installed but listing in ps
On one of my servers mysql was killed because of too much memory usage. Before it crashed the memory usage was around 95%. My confusion is what killed the process because I have seen in past whenever ...
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How to kill suspended process by name?
I got a bunch of suspended processes. pkill cannot kill them but pretend to do that.
This command actually works:
pkill -e SOMENAMEHERE | grep -Eo '[0-9]+' | xargs kill -9
but it's too long to type....
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How to terminate TeamViewer application from Mac OS Terminal?
I have tried terminating TeamViewer application from the Mac OS terminal using the following command. It kills the app but again it starts automatically in the very next second. How can can I ...
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View what's killing another Windows process
I'm trying to figure out what (if any) process is killing another process on my Windows 10 machine.
When I boot, after logging in, explorer fails to launch and I'm met with a black screen. I can ...
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It is safe to kill every process running on a port?
This is my problem. I'm running a Node.JS API on a Debian server using Nodemon (Because I'm currently programming on my server) and that API is on a Apache Virtual Host using a reverse proxy.
I use ...
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How to grep the process of iTunes in Python scripting
import os, signal
def check_kill_process(iTunes):
for line in os.popen("ps ax | grep " + iTunes + " | grep -v grep"):
fields = line.split()
pid = fields[0]
os.kill(int(pid)...
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Unable to kill a process (Prometheus) listening on port 9090 keeps restarting
I was using a tool called Prometheus to monitor containers on my VM. Now I want to remove it but it seems impossible.
nima@caliper-latest:~/caliper$ sudo lsof -n -i4TCP:9090
COMMAND PID ...
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Killing task by name - start menu shortcut
I have a problem with a specific application that I am executing. The application is full-screen in the foreground.
About once per day, it hangs. When it does, I can only open start menu. I cannot ...
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Why can't I kill -9 this process? [duplicate]
A moment ago I tried to fill all space in a USB drive by typing yes > a to create a very large file and overwrite the old (sensitive) data.
But then, when the file grew to 4GB I got this error, and ...
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How can I kill a process like Process-Hacker does
When I look for answers this many times and all the answers I have found just say use "taskkill /IM /F"
But that doesn't work when you get access denied from a system process.
How can I kill a ...
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What are the Chrome processes which do not terminate with TASKKILL IM?
A batch file is used to close browsers when backing up the user's profile(s).
Firefox closes all processes on the taskkill command but Chrome doesn't. In this example, there are nine tasks even ...
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List all processes I can kill, so I can kill them
I need to figure out all the processes I can kill as my user (without privileges), so I can kill them. how do I do that? I just wanna kill everything I can.
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How to kill a program run inside screen that is not responding? [closed]
When running a python program inside a screen, from time to time the program stucks right from the beginning after just starting it and I can't quit it using Ctrl+C. (^C will be typed but no response)....
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Automatically kill specific process by name whenever it runs again ubuntu
I somehow need a script to automatically kill a process by it's name on ubuntu, whenever that process runs again. Is there a way to do that?
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trap in freestyle shell script not working in jenkins
I want the gracefull killing of my Jenkins job if someone aborts it,
So I tried to trap the abort signal and customise killing step using shell script.
But It seems like Jenkins is ignoring all the ...
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How to kill child of target process in Windows
I have multiple processes with the same name.However there are some that have child processes.I want to kill all those children.How can i manage that considering i know only the name of the group of ...
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Composer killed when setup laravel in Godaddy Server
I want to setup my laravel project on Godaddy server but when I am creating laravel project on Godaddy server, composer killed the process.
composer require doctrine/dbal
composer.json has been ...
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Sending SIGTERM to `script` results in a zombie process
I am implementing a simple system to run jobs remotely via SSH. My goal is to run the job within a screen and record all its output using script and upload the typescript to a server when the job ...
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Restart screenshot process on Mac OS
OSX has simple and useful screenshot hotkeys. Often though they stop working for me.
I found that killing the screenshot process through Activity Monitor and re-running it helped and was quicker than ...
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Is there a way to automatically kill a process that its window has been closed?
This is for games that are known to not close properly. Like Anthem right now. Like detect if the window is gone, if it is, then kill process.
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autossh creating many processes
I'm using autossh to connect to a reverse SSH tunnel. I run it from startup.
However, I was facing problems in that the tunnel sometimes goes down.
I created a script which checks if the tunnel is ...
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Linux: cannot kill "Software & Updates" process
Trying to do a software update, the corresponding program "Software & Updates" got stuck during the cache refresh.
How can I kill such a process? I looked at all the running processes with su, ...
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Why do I often receieve `no such process` in response to a process I want to kill?
me@me:~$ ps aux | grep -i firefox
me 15413 0.0 0.0 14428 1036 pts/1 S+ 05:46 0:00 grep --color=auto -i firefox
me@me:~$ kill 15413
bash: kill: (15413) - No such process
Why might this ...
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How to halt an attempted directory listing from pressing tab?
Sometimes I'll accidentally/instinctively double tab in a directory I probably shouldn't have. In the current case, the reason I'm writing this, it is on an old, very full cifs drive.
Of course, this ...
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How to remotely terminate bash shell processes but ensure history is saved?
Occasionally my X11 window manager (i3) locks up, and I'm forced to switch to a Linux virtual console, or SSH into my machine, to regain control.
Usually this happens when I have numerous rxvt ...
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One-liner capturing output for sudo kill
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I have some root processes that I'm trying to kill, more precisely some tcpdump processes.
Hence, I need to use sudo kill.
My current command looks something like this:
sudo kill $(ps ...
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Kill command on outlook invokes Microsoft error reporting Mac
I am actually trying to close some processes using kill command.
All the processes are getting killed graciously but when I invoke kill command on Microsoft Outlook like
kill PID
it's getting ...
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Why running kill in linux needs sudo access
On one server(my development desktop), I am able to execute kill command without sudo, but on the other one, I will got kill: kill 1 failed: operation not permitted.
I assume that kill command will ...
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Cannot kill Xorg process
On my Linux box, Xorg server got stuck and is consuming 100% CPU. It normally does not do that, but the machine has been suspended/resumed several times and the displays are not connected - I assume ...
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