On 12-Dec-2013 10:28:21 Bev Nicolson wrote:
The force quit applet on the panel freezes everything so I've ditched that but Libre Office is still unresponsive having tried to open a .docx file. I've tried killall -9 in Terminal but it doesn't recognise that. What's the command now? TIA.
Bev (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.)
Hi Bev, I't surprising that "it" doesn't recognise the killall command!
What happens if, on the terminal, you enter the command
which killall
?? You should see
/usr/bin/killall
or something very similar. If that doesn't come up, then what happens if you use "kill" instead of "killall"?
Another issue to take account of is that the name of the program being run, that you want to kill, may not be what you think.
Since you are trying to open a docx file, presumably you have launched oowriter (which should be the default for docx). To see what happens, I just launched oowriter from the command line; then
ps aux | grep writer
gave:
ted 25465 0.0 0.1 4164 1516 pts/0 S 10:48 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer -splash-pipe=5 ted 25479 7.7 5.4 182676 56232 pts/0 Sl 10:48 0:03 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -writer -splash-pipe=5
so two processes were launched by the command "oowriter".
However, I'm no expert on OO itself, so that's probably as far as I can take it!
Good luck, Ted.
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