on error KsCD becomes unkillable and causes umount to fail on shutdown...

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Wed Feb 1, art.alexion did say:

> No suggestions for preventing it from happening, but to avoid restarting
> 
> sudo killall kscd
> 
> 
> Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> 
> > When this happens I can't kill the kscd process even when
> > I run ksysguard with root privileges. 

Actually I did try killall as a normal user. (the same user who ran
startx and who started kscd and who ksysguard listed for the kscd
process) I still think it should have worked just as looking up the pid
with ps -A and doing a kill -15, and then in frustration a kill -9
should have...

But when those failed I did the <ctrl>+<esc> hotkey for the "KDE System
Gaurd" aka:ksysguard, when that said insufficient permissions I closed it
and fired it up again with root permissions with:

kdesu -u root -c ksysguard

This way I didn't get any messages about not having permissions
but the one process that was hanging up was still there...

I don't know of any reason why a root permission killall would work
better than a root permission ksysguard, But if it happens again I will
certainly try your suggestion. 

Speak of the devil... I just tried to stop kscd from playing my Phil
Collins cd only to avoid the issue I tried the eject button instead of
stop... So here goes:

=> undefined -> /home/jtwdyp/images/family
=> > ps -A
=> <snip>
=> 10773 ?        00:00:01 kscd
=> 10836 pts/5    00:00:00 ps
=> undefined -> /home/jtwdyp/images/family
=> > kill -15 10773
=> undefined -> /home/jtwdyp/images/family
=> > kill -9 10773
=> undefined -> /home/jtwdyp/images/family
=> > killall kscd
=> undefined -> /home/jtwdyp/images/family
=> > ps -A
=> <snip>
=> 10773 ?        00:00:01 kscd
=> 10838 pts/5    00:00:00 ps
=> undefined -> /home/jtwdyp/images/family
=> > su root -c killall kscd
=> Password:
=> undefined -> /home/jtwdyp/images/family
=> > ps -A
=> <snip>
=> 10773 ?        00:00:01 kscd
=> 10864 ?        00:00:00 artsd
=> 10876 pts/5    00:00:00 ps
=> undefined -> /home/jtwdyp/images/family
=> >  

ARRRGHGH!

I suppose I should mention that I don't agree with the ubuntu sudo
policy and therefore have a real root login, and don't have ANY sudoers
thus the "su root -c" instead of sudo for the killall, and to be honest
the "kdesu -u root -c ksysguard" listed above was actually:
"su root -c kdesu -u root -c ksysguard" since the kubuntu version of
kdesu uses a sudo like password pop-up that doesn't accept the root
password. But su does, and passes it to kdesu which then doesn't ask.


Well anyway, thanks for the suggestion, it was worth a try!


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