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.

  • MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk
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    1 year ago

    Did you literally type kill -9 firefox? Because the kill command normally takes PIDs not process names. killall takes process names, but process names are not always straightforward. Under normal circumstances firefox would exit when X/Wayland goes away though.

    Using the sysrq key in the “reverse BUSIER” sequence when your system won’t shutdown/reboot is always better than shutting the power on a running system.