Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

On Sunday, 8 January 2006 at 15:32:11 +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote:
> Richard Lyons wrote:
[...]
>
> >console, makes no difference) background is blacked, and a small cursor
> >appears at the end of the first line -- then it freezes and is
> >unkillable. I now have six mc processes showing in ps, but cannot
> >kill any of them.
[...]
>
> My bets are on acroread, because:
>
> 1) It is not in Debian, so nobody checked for what it does on ones system.
> 2) Being non-free software it can do whatever weird things it does
> without you knowing it.
>
> Run debsums and see if it messed up anything and reinstall the affected
> packages.

I had not even installed debsums!
Getting it now.

By the way, there is no such thing as unkillable, "killall -9
> mc" and "killall -9 acroread" should get rid of them.

They are still there...

bordello:/home/richard# killall -9 mc
bordello:/home/richard# ps ax | grep mc
32642 ? S 0:00 mc
32659 ? S 0:00 mc
32662 ? S 0:00 mc
32681 ? S 0:00 mc
315 tty2 S+ 0:00 mc
1311 ? S 0:00 mc
1525 pts/15 R+ 0:00 grep mc

--
richard


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