<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Ray Leventhal <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@swhi.net">ubuntu@swhi.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">GaryT wrote: > I want to learn how to identify and then stop a process - for example > today I tried to restart a program that had just crashed and Ubuntu gave > me a message along the lines of "XYZ is still running but not > responding. Stop the process or reboot before trying again" or words to > that effect. > > Rebooting was highly undesirable because it meant shutting down other > programs. Too bad! > > Can someone help save the search and point me to some appropriate > reading matter? > Much appreciated > > GT > > > > > </div>Hi Gary, In terminal, try this: ps auxxxx|grep XYZ the first column of the response will be the process ID (PID) of the offending process. Once that's known you can sudo kill <pid> and you'll have stopped the hung process. </blockquote><div> Or you can directly call : sudo killall -9 XYZ This will kill all instances of the process XYZ. Then start XYZ as you normally would. Thanks, Raseel </div></div>