**Peter Drake HAS MOVED** @peterdrake@qoto.org · Aug 28, 2023, 21:55

**Peter Drake HAS MOVED** @peterdrake@qoto.org · Aug 28, 2023, 21:55

Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org

Hmm. Unity hung on Ubuntu and I can't figure out how to kill it. I'd usually use

ps -aux | grep Unity

and then kill the listed process, but there are at least a dozen of them. Is there any other way to do this?

**Peter Drake HAS MOVED** @peterdrake@qoto.org · 2023-08-28T22:00:41Z

Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org

Wow! I think I found the offending process, but kill doesn't kill it! (It quietly does nothing.) Same story for killall and System Monitor.

Hard reboot incoming!

**Scott M.** @Hiker_Scott@mstdn.ca · Aug 28, 2023, 22:04

**Scott M.** @Hiker_Scott@mstdn.ca · Aug 28, 2023, 22:04

Scott M. @Hiker_Scott@mstdn.ca

**Pat** @Pat@qoto.org · Aug 28, 2023, 22:16

**Pat** @Pat@qoto.org · Aug 28, 2023, 22:16

Pat @Pat@qoto.org

You can try specifying the signal to send (man signal), e.g.,

kill -s KILL

Also, use the "f" option in ps to show processes as a tree to ID the parent process, e.g.,

ps axf