On 25/07/2021 11:32, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Me again. While Mint remain wobbly, it frequently claims that (ie) Firefox is running but not responding.
I've tried
$ kill $(ps -x | grep firefox | a
and nothing happened. Got the same message.
killall firefox
I usually use
ps -Af | grep "Firefox"
which gives something like
steve 4356 4345 0 21:21 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto Firefox
then I do
sudo kill 4356
Alternatively, install htop, (sudo apt-get install htop)
then run htop
sudo htop
scroll cursor up or down to find firefox, then press f9 (or click on it). Then you can choose Sigkill or Sigterm.
There probably will be several firefox child processes showing - find the one with the lowest PID which will be the master process and close that one.
That doesn't fix your problem though.
Steve