[Tfug] Kubuntu crash

[Ammon Lauritzen]

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Earl wrote:
> I'm running KDE on UBUNTU. I was reading a PDF in Konquerer. It hung
> and I can't get it to close. I tried signing out and in again but it
> is still hung. I tried rebooting but if I open KDE again, I end up
> with the hung Konquerer. I also have Gnome installed and, although
> there are some problems, if I sign into Gnome I am running. However,
> KDE is still hung. I tired going on as root and running ps -au and
> can't see the process ID to kill Konquerer.

If you can see the offending window. Your friend is

xkill

Point, click. Kaboom.

Also, I like ps -aux. This will show absolutely everything running on
the machine - including processes who have been divorced from any
control terminal - which is likely the case with your funky process.

Ammon
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