Help, everything on the screen is blue!

[Rapael Morcha]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:39:47PM -0500, Ashley Benton wrote:
> No I tried it before to answer to you but as you guess that was a little too
> difficult to understand, and I didn't want to look for hours before to

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It seems you need to at least invest 5 mins reading documentation on top and lsof.

man top lsof;

If you don't like the smell of manpages, Google is your friend. In particular you need the process ID of the process or the processes name to be able to kill it. 

Process id is PID 2578 run by user called root and the processes name is /sbin/udevd (udev daemon, a background process).
raphael at f9:[~] lsof |less
COMMAND     PID       USER   FD      TYPE     DEVICE     SIZE	  NODE 		NAME
udevd      2578       root  mem       REG        8,2    61872     294916	/sbin/udevd

Similarly process id is PID with parent process id (PPID) of 1 (init) and the command is /sbin/udevd --daemon.
raphael at f9:[~] ps -ef | less
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root      2578     1  0 Nov06 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon

If I want to kill PID 2578, I'd do -
raphael at f9:[~] kill 2578

If I want to kill PID 2578, I could do -
raphael at f9:[~] kill -9 2578
In this e.g., "-9" signifies a unix signal called "KILL" (see man kill for more info on that).

Debating and throwing someones anger at someone else in this list does no benefit to anyone. Keep it gooood and clean Ubuntians. ;) Also, telling as much information as possible when posting to get solution helps everyone trying to answer one's problem. "I have a problem with my screen, I can't do this, that" sort of question helps no one. Keep it cool. :)

I am off to lunch. Too hungry. :)

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Cheers,
Raphael.