Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 10:56 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com > <mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Howdy, > > > > I use Konsole a lot, that thing within KDE that acts like a console. > > Anyway, I'm running a offline file system check on a rather large file > > system. For some reason, Konsole decided to crash. I can see the file > > system is still running with top, ps etc but I can't see anything to > > know what it is doing. Is there a way to get that back? Should I kill > > it and restart now that Konsole is running again? I'd think a regular > > term signal would give it a safe stopping place but still kinda chicken > > to do it. Then again, what if it stops and needs my input or worse yet, > > it displays a error that I can't see but I need to know and see? > > > > Any thoughts? Is there a way to get it back? Kill it and restart? Do > > nothing and hope for the best? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > I would suggest you learn screen - a very simple app that allows you to > start an app and then disconnect from it. You can then log out, close > your terminal, or in your case if konsole really crashed, you just open > a new konsole and reconnect. > > The screen process keeps all the terminal output so you can review > it while the process is running or after it has finished. > > I do not know how to reliably get access to your process if it's > really still running. Someone else here can probably give you > better instructions on that. > > HTH, > Mark > > >
I was hoping I would catch a real quick response, even tho that wasn't very likely. After about 45 minutes or so, I did a pkill on it. I seem to recall it is about the same as a ctrl c which is a polite 'stop what you doing' when safely possible, in most cases anyway. I then started a new screen process and restarted the file system check. It's still working on it on the other desktop. So, even tho I hadn't read your reply yet, I still did what you advised. It's running in a screen process now. I can reattach if Konsole dies again. Good advice tho. Should have did that before. ;-) I don't know what happened to Konsole tho. It's crashed once before a month or so ago and then again a bit ago. Before that, I can't recall it ever crashing on me before. It appears someone is adding a feature that includes the occasional crash as a added bonus. ROFL I'm glad I made new backups. Before Konsole crashed, it was spitting out a LOT of stuff that I'm not sure is good. It even mentioned possible lost data. I got a new 18TB hard drive and was in the process of moving data to it and resizing the file system when this all started. I can't mount right now so no idea if it is still there or not. Now let us pray. Dale :-) :-)
