My friend was running firefox on linux mint, and it froze and he used xkill
to kill firefox. But still it shows up in htop
ps -aux
. He tried to kill it multiple times but it didn’t work. See the pictures for explanation. We had to kill power to shutdown, even systemd can’t stop that process.
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Yes, I killed the parent process. Also after killing the process with firefox PID, the file equivalent to that process
/proc/PID
was still there. I think it could be - “likely I/O or driver related” or “stuck in a syscall waiting on some kind of I/O operation that isn’t timing out/is bugged out/can never complete”.
kill
takes a process ID (i.e. a number) not a process name. Either find the right PID withps
first or usekillall
, although be aware thatkillall
does exactly what it says: kills all processes matching the string it is given. If you only want to kill one of several Firefox processes that isn’t what you want.