`pkill -9 -f firefox` won't work, what can be a possible explanation? - eviltoast

My friend was running firefox on linux mint, and it froze and he used xkill to kill firefox. But still it shows up in htop ps -aux. He tried to kill it multiple times but it didn’t work. See the pictures for explanation. We had to kill power to shutdown, even systemd can’t stop that process.

    • brain_in_a_jar@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      You can cat /proc/PID/stack to see what it’s wedged on in kernel land.

      I’m guessing maybe something related to the GPU, maybe some kind of driver bug?