In order to recover from this condition, I needed to do: $ kill `ps auxww|grep [h]amster | awk '{print $2}'` $ kill -9 `ps auxww|grep [h]amster | awk '{print $2}'`
In order to recover from this condition, I needed to do:
$ kill `ps auxww|grep [h]amster | awk '{print $2}'`
$ kill -9 `ps auxww|grep [h]amster | awk '{print $2}'`