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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:41 am    Post subject: How to invoke the Linux Reply with quote
How to invoke the Linux Terminal in LINUX when a process becomes unresponsive? If a process becomes unresponsive in WINDOWS then we press "alt+ctrl+del" to invoke the task manager & then terminate the process.Is there any similar way to invoke the Linux Terminal so that we can end a process by the 'kill' command when it becomes unresponsive?Any help would be gladly accepted.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:59 pm    Post subject: Re: How to invoke the Linux Reply with quote
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How to invoke the Linux Terminal in LINUX when a process becomes unresponsive? If a process becomes unresponsive in WINDOWS then we press "alt+ctrl+del" to invoke the task manager & then terminate the process.Is there any similar way to invoke the Linux Terminal so that we can end a process by the 'kill' command when it becomes unresponsive?Any help would be gladly accepted.


Yeah. It's very simple. Open up a terminal window. Depending on your desktop environment, where you will find it in the menu system will vary. It will be listed, variously according to desktop environment as, Gnome terminal or terminal. If the gui itself is frozen you can often, but not always, reach it at ctrl -> alt -> fn1 through fn6.

Sometimes when the gui freezes the only way to unfreeze it is to ssh into the box and run, su'ed to root or using sudo, /etc/init.d/gdm restart. That works if your desktop is Gnome by default. If it's KDE by default it would most likely be /etc/init.d/kdm restart. This is one good reason for running ssh as a daemon.

Also, if you know the name of the process, "killall process_name" works as well. With kill you must know the process id number (pid).
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