This tag refers to the action of terminating (aborting) a process.
Use this tag for questions related to killing a specific process on a system.
Questions tagged [kill-process]
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How does "Fast Reboot" app work?
I've come across this app: Fast Reboot
My app sometimes needs to kill another app - Gallery.
I've tried different methods for that, and none worked reliably. However, it seems that "fast reboot" does indeed kill apps without requiring root.
How…
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How can I kill a process with a long name using tskill?
(Answering my own question for the future / others).
I have a process I'd like to kill by name (in my case from an InnoSetup from Pascal script). My issue is that my process is called MyVeryLongProcessName.exe and I don't have access to taskkill…
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ubuntu kill java thread
I create some threads:
public class NewUser extends Thread{
public int userID;
public long waitingSeconds;
Timer timer;
public NewUser(int UserID, long WaitingSeconds){
this.userID = UserID;
this.waitingSeconds =…
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GDB is killing my inferior process
GDB is killing my inferior. Inferior is a long-running (20-30 minutes) benchmark. GDB and inferior are both running under my uid. Runs fine for a while then my signal handler is called with a siginfo_t instance with si_signo = 11, si_errno = 0 and…
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Is there any kill_proc() replacement for proprietary Linux kernel drivers?
I'm in the process of porting 4 proprietary (read: non-GPL) Linux kernel drivers (that I didn't write) from RHEL 5.x to RHEL 6.x (2.6.32 kernel). The drivers all use kill_proc() for signalling the user-space "session", but this function has been…
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KILL "Android.process.xxx" processes
It is possible to kill "Android.process.xxx" system processes programmatically WITHOUT root permissions (e.g. "Android.process.media")? By the way I'm trying to develop (with ADT v21.1) an app with such function.
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how to force stop all checked application from list view in android programmatically
In below given code I want to kill (forcestop) all the checked applications but after restarting my application it's showing the name of these killed applications again.
I really don't know if they're really killed or not. Why this is…
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Could the Killing process privilege in SQL Server be assigned to 1 user for 1 database only?
I do not know how to work with the management of privileges in SQL Server. I have a hosting that offers me SQL Server database. If any problem of the type -an object is blocked- occurs I need to create a ticket, report that I need to kill the…
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Excel files not closing from MS Access
I have an Excel Dashboard where i have buttons to perform some data cleansing in MS Access. The Access database fetches data from other two Excel files. When i run the MS Access separately i am not facing any issue. My user wanted all the…
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Forced close in my application after using a task killer
I have an application that works correctly.
I press the "back" button and close the application, then I open the application and working properly
I press the "home" and go to the main screen of the device, then I open the application and working…
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Can't kill a process - stopping rails server
I am trying to stop rails server from my console (i am using ubuntu) so following the related questions on stack, I tried
Ctrl + C
pgrep -l ruby and then kill -9 $the_right_pids (and also ps aux | grep ...)
but none of these worked. Does anybody…
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How do I end a process using Visual Basic?
Basically, I've made a program that has both "RUN BOT" and "KILL BOT" buttons. My question is what code do I use to 'Kill' the bot or in other terms close out the "batchfile.bat" that it's running when the button "RUN BOT" is clicked. Appreciate all…
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How to end the WCF server from a client which is also its parent
I have the following WCF server and client code which I changed a bit from their [original form] (http://tech.pro/tutorial/855/wcf-tutorial-basic-interprocess-communication).
Server:
using System;
using System.ServiceModel;
namespace WCFServer
{
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Stop single/all processes of a website on shared hosting
I have an ASP.NET website hosted on Rackspace Cloud Sites.
I have some C# code running which loops through a text file and inserts the records to a SQL Server website. Currently I have this code running and the records are being uploaded, but I…
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Stopping android logcat that is executing in a child process
I am writing a ruby script in which I want to execute the android logcat -v time command in a child process and after some time kill the process (when the the parent is done doing xyz).
For example I have:
childpid = Process.fork {
adb -s…
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