On Sunday, 8 January 2006 at 15:32:11 +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > >console, makes no difference) background is blacked, and a small cursor > >appears at the end of the first line -- then it freezes and is > >unkillable. I now have six mc processes showing in ps, but cannot > >kill any of them. [...] > > My bets are on acroread, because: > > 1) It is not in Debian, so nobody checked for what it does on ones system. > 2) Being non-free software it can do whatever weird things it does > without you knowing it. > > Run debsums and see if it messed up anything and reinstall the affected > packages.
I had not even installed debsums! Getting it now. By the way, there is no such thing as unkillable, "killall -9 > mc" and "killall -9 acroread" should get rid of them. They are still there... bordello:/home/richard# killall -9 mc bordello:/home/richard# ps ax | grep mc 32642 ? S 0:00 mc 32659 ? S 0:00 mc 32662 ? S 0:00 mc 32681 ? S 0:00 mc 315 tty2 S+ 0:00 mc 1311 ? S 0:00 mc 1525 pts/15 R+ 0:00 grep mc -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
