[Intrepid alpha 5]Unable to kill firefox

[Claudio Moretti]

Firefox 3.0.1 blocked while closing, so when i tried to open another instance, it said "Firefox is already running" etc.
I opened a terminal window and gave "pidof firefox", which correctly told me that firefox's PID was 12345.
So i tried "sudo kill 12345" and it didn't work. Even "killall firefox" didn't work.

[jjos (jbenjos)]

Claudio Moretti,

I think this might be two separate bugs. Firefox really shouldn't block while closing, I've this issue in Hardy as well. I can't duplicate the second issue though.

-Jonathan

[Claudio Moretti (flyingstar16)]

Jonathan,
I know, my problem is not firefox (which is Mozilla's business :P ), but kill..
What if one day I'll need to kill a process which is using all resources on my pc and i can't?
Thanks, anyway,
Claudio

[[e-mail] (olin-atkinsontech)]

I am having the same problem in gnome-system-monitor is shows its status as Uninteruptable.

[Jonas (peace-dammit)]

In order to kill a process that is stuck you can issue pkill. In this case:

pkill firefox

If the process still won't die then you need to add the flag -9. I.e:

pkill -9 firefox

[Jonas (peace-dammit)]

Add more information to support the bug. Is it reproducible? Any logs?

[Claudio Moretti (flyingstar16)]

I'm not experiencing this anymore, don't know if <email address hidden> is, but I think this can be marked as invalid and filed as something that happened once and won't happen again..
If I'm wrong, feel fre to reopen it..

[Claudio Moretti (flyingstar16)]

Btw, this bug was on Intrepid and I switched to Jaunty, so...

[Matthew Wilson (evandar)]

I have this problem with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009042113 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.9.

Kill and pkill fail to terminate firefox after it locks up.