Harry Putnam wrote: > I notice whiptail hogging cpu and decided to get rid of it and return > to the package it is replacing `dialog'.
If whiptail (or dialog) is hogging cpu then it is probably off in the weeds and should be killed. It is simply a small interactive dialog for scripts and is used in the installer. Probably it is stuck reading from a bad file descriptor. > aptitude remove whiptail... offers a few decisions, and I made the ones > that replace whiptail with dialog. It is probably okay to remove it. But I don't think that is needed. Probably just to kill the currently stuck process. > None the less, whiptail is still here hogging away at 75-80 percent > cpu. > > When `aptitude remove' leaves the nasty bugger behind what is the > procedure to finally be clear rid of it? # apt-get install procps # pkill whiptail Or use 'killall' if you prefer. Or by just looking it up. ps -e | grep whiptail Let's say that is 32768, then: kill 32768 Bob
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