Re: unkillable processes

[Donald Henson <wepin wepin com>]

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 15:26, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> I often end up with unkillable processes from gnome, where kill -9 won't
> get rid of them.  This seems to only happen on remote X terminals (e.g.
> LTSP), and only when I logout with a gnome application still running
> that I have forgotten about.
> 
> Is there any way to get rid of these short of rebooting?  While this
> is not a business machine, I hate interrupting seti home and folding home :-)

Have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill and restart the X-term
session?

Don Henson