Unable to kill process with kill -KILL

Asked Feb 15 '18 at 10:00

Active Feb 15 '18 at 10:02

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I am miffed... This should work. I am using AWS and inside of a docker image but I would still expect this to work:

root@1e896e1e9c8e:~/shipamax/server# pgrep -d " " -f ^chromedriver
924
root@1e896e1e9c8e:~/shipamax/server# sudo kill -KILL 924
root@1e896e1e9c8e:~/shipamax/server# pgrep -d " " -f ^chromedriver
924

top's report of the process is:

   924 root      20   0       0      0      0 Z   0.0  0.0   0:00.27 chromedriver

edited Feb 15 '18 at 10:02

muru

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asked Feb 15 '18 at 10:00

Jamie Hutber

Perhaps What if 'kill -9' does not work? would be better. – Stephen Kitt Feb 15 '18 at 10:04
I have tried -9 too. – Jamie Hutber Feb 15 '18 at 10:06
I have and marked as a duplicate :) It was the ghost process – Jamie Hutber Feb 15 '18 at 13:55
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Sorry, I realise since you accepted the duplicate you’d read the chosen duplicate thoroughly; I misunderstood your comment wrt. to other kill -9 answer above. – Stephen Kitt Feb 15 '18 at 13:58

Unable to kill process with kill -KILL

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