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pkill -9 -f firefox won't work, what can be a possible explanation? (social.fossware.space)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by antihero@social.fossware.space to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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My friend was running firefox on linux mint, and it froze and he used xkill to kill firefox. But still it shows up in htop ps -aux. He tried to kill it multiple times but it didn't work. See the pictures for explanation. We had to kill power to shutdown, even systemd can't stop that process.

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[–] antihero@social.fossware.space 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew it was something related to kernel. Now I have some some explanation of if this happens again.

[–] brain_in_a_jar@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

You can cat /proc/PID/stack to see what it's wedged on in kernel land.

I'm guessing maybe something related to the GPU, maybe some kind of driver bug?