[Bug 199420] Re: Running process cannot be kill -9'ed

[Diego Argueta]

I'm pretty sure this is related...

As of 12 April 2010 I'm having this same issue of immortal processes. I
had a program (EditiX) running and it suddenly stopped responding. I
tried to kill it using the process manager, but I had two problems:

1) The process, nor anything resembling the name, was not on the list. Oddly enough I could still move the window around and click on buttons but they wouldn't do anything.
2) I found a completely unrelated process--Adobe Reader--whose status was listed as "Zombie." I tried to kill it with the process manager, but it did nothing. I also tried kill -9 <pid> but that didn't do anything either, nor did pkill.

System information:
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) release 5.0
GNOME 2.26.1
Kernel: 2.6.28-18-generic
Troublemaker processes: Adobe Reader (acroread) and EditiX 2009.

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Running process cannot be kill -9'ed
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