On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 21:55 +0930, Tim wrote:
> You can log out and find some things still
> running in your name, that haven't quit, and have no reason to still
> be
> around (it's not as if you started up some services that you wanted to
> run in your name, and stay running after you logged out).

And if you do, that's what nohup is for.

> e.g. Several instances of gvfs-fuse-daemon, crashed mplayers,
> gconfd-2,
> firefox (that requires a reboot to kill, not even kill -9 will kill
> it),

If kill -9 won't kill it, it's suspended in an uninterruptible state in
the kernel, usually waiting for some "short term" event that will never
happen. IOW it's a bug. This sort of thing has always existed in Unix
and related systems and is a PITA, but it's not easy to fix.

poc

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