Eclipse hanging, how to kill it properly?

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Sometimes my Eclipse hangs and I need to kill it violently. However, I have been unable to do it properly. It seems that kill -9 does not actually shut it down in a proper way since I can still see the hanged window. What command sequence would kill my Eclipse properly so I could restart it?

I am running Ubuntu 12.10 and Eclipse 4.2(Juno).

have you tried xkill? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkill – jlengrand Jun 06 '13 at 12:17 — jlengrand, Jun 06 '13 at 12:17

score 37 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '13 at 12:19

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You can also use jps -l to get all of the process id's of java processes

answered Jun 06 '13 at 12:19

Uku Loskit

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Doesn't work for me because it is not installed on my Ubuntu machine, "Command 'jps' not found". – Eric Jul 17 '21 at 18:57
@Eric install openjdk – p1l0t Jul 14 '22 at 23:43

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '13 at 12:18

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You need to kill the javaw process on which Eclipse runs (usually it is the one with about 1GB memory usage :) )

answered Jun 06 '13 at 12:18

Michal Borek

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As of Luna (and possibly earlier), Eclipse shows up as "eclipse.exe" in Task Manager. – Dan1701 Oct 06 '14 at 20:24
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@Dan1701 ubuntu he said – caub Aug 04 '15 at 08:06
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look for the process "java": sudo ps -A | grep java and then run: sudo kill xxxx where xxxx is a pid number of the process – Błażej Kocik May 13 '16 at 13:56
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Update: On Ubuntu 14.10 the process name is changed to `java` – Parag Jadhav Jan 19 '17 at 11:37

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 20 '18 at 20:32

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Based on the answer of Uku and Michael you can do the following:

On your terminal first run:

jps -l

Check the pid of the process that is running Eclipse and copy the pid.

Then kill the process id by running:

// use the actual process id
kill -p {the_copied_pid}

answered Aug 20 '18 at 20:32

Pritam Banerjee

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This gave me the error `bash: kill: p: invalid signal specification` – Mehdi Charife Jan 16 '23 at 13:55

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered May 16 '23 at 14:50

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Is it a typo : kill -9 {the_copied_pid}

answered May 16 '23 at 14:50

Ramz_the_dev

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