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I have encountered processes that even Task Manager could not kill.
All the damn time. I typically use Linux, so having a process I can’t even force kill is a severely annoying concept.
This has happened to me only once on Linux. I still tell stories about it.
It was a CD burning program stuck in uninterruptible sleep! Trapped in a system call into the kernel that can never be interrupted by a signal, it was truly unkillable. The SIGKILLs simply piled up never to be delivered.
I would assume that was a kernel issue.
In this case it was a driver holding that thread captive and making an assumption about the hardware eventually responding to a request which never completes.
So yes indeed it was the kernel, and ideally the driver could be written better, but that’s probably easier said than done when the hardware can do weird things.
This was a long time ago, so for all I know the issue has been long corrected.
It honestly was the thing that pushed me to Linux. Once I could no longer kill programs at-will I couldn’t handle it. xkill ftw.
Yeah… It doesn’t happen often and when it does, it’s usually a driver and/or hw issue that is likely to leak memory and/or hold file descriptors but procs in
D(uninterruptible_sleep) state do happen. It’s really obnoxious that murdering them withSIGKILLdoes nothing.
But I also remember the times when there was no foe Task Manager could not kill.
“This computer is hereby deconstituted.”
SIGTERM: stop that.
SIGKILL: That was not a request.
Case power button: listen here you little shit
Sounds like it’s not just me that goes “ok then, try arguing with this” when power cycling an unresponsive computer.
*Cortana will remember this
Task manager: not responding
One time I was playing modded Skyrim when it froze/crashed at the loading screen
So I summon task manager, it hides behind the frozen game. I alt+tab and start blind keying to Skyrim to end it, been here hundreds of times, but nothing happens and the Skyrim world music STARTS???!!!
ALT+TAB to see TM and Skyrim both reporting non-responsive. Tab to Skyrim and press w, clearly hear character moving and reacting to my input
Try again to end process via ALT+F4, No dice. Try via TM, still unresponsive
I had to reboot my PC with a hard power button press that time and I still don’t fully understand what the FUCK happened
That’s why you enable the end task option for when you right click on the icon in the taskbar.
sudo kill -9 1fuck youecho "c" > /proc/sysrq-trigger☠
As someone who’s relatively new to Linux, anyone want to explain what these lines would do? I’m aware of KILL, but dunno what the ‘-9’ refers to. Not familiar with sysrq-trigger
The
killcommand allows you to specify which type of kill signal you want to send.-9sends signal 9 or SIGKILL, and we’re sending it to pid1.That would force kill systemd, which I just have to assume will send your computer to a crashing halt.
The echo command is writing
"c"to a file at/proc/sysrq-triggerwhich I don’t really know how it works but this suggests you’ll “crash the system without first unmounting file systems or syncing disks attached to the system.”I haven’t installed
fuckso I’m not sure how that works
Task Manager stopped responding
I think you mean
top. Followed by akand the enter key twice.TIL you can kill processes straight from
topOnly if the process is a bottom.
Well done
Wait until you type
c
Did you mean xkill?
I miss xkill. I recently switched to Wayland but xkill worked instantly 100% of the time.
killall
Note: Only use it sparingly. We don’t want another skynet.
I’m surprised Microsoft hasn’t removed task manager yet.
As a windows user WIN+R -> CMD -> TASKKILL /F /T /IM “<appname>*”
… I use it too much. Appa often block my screen :|
Task Manager, kill this guy!
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