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Recover from a stuck unzip operation System
With Panther comes a wonderful new feature to automatically unzip and work with zip archives. Well, if you have an "incomplete� zip file and your system is stuck with the perpetual 'Unarchiving "Filename"' dialog box, hitting Cancel often does not work -- the button just disappears after you click it. If this happens, then type the following command into your Terminal and dialog begone!

sudo killall -9 BOMArchiveHelper
Type in your password when prompted. Don't worry, you haven't harmed anything with this command, just gotten "unstuck" (BOMArchiveHelper is the application that unzips the archives, and you've just ended it).
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Recover from a stuck unzip operation
Authored by: LC on Dec 22, '03 02:32:10PM
Are you sure a regular signal (-TERM, -HUP, -ABRT) won't terminate it? (Please no -KILL/9) Larry.

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Recover from a stuck unzip operation
Authored by: amrc0308 on Dec 22, '03 02:50:03PM
Ouch. I was always advised
 kill -9 
was for killing unresponsive shells. I myself would try
 kill -15 
to allow the app to terminate with grace. Then after that I would move on to the harsh kill it now.

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What is the hierarchy among the kill options?
Authored by: hamarkus on Dec 22, '03 06:08:16PM

Am I right that the kill command escalates in the following order:

15 / TERM
1 / HUP
2 / INT
3 / QUIT
6 / ABRT
9 / KILL

But to what corresponds a simple kill command without any options?



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What is the hierarchy among the kill options?
Authored by: stetner on Dec 22, '03 06:24:07PM

read the man page:

-signal_name
A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead
of the default TERM.



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Thanks!
Authored by: hamarkus on Dec 23, '03 07:18:24AM

Thanks, I had looked at man page, but obviously not carefully enough.



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NO NO NO
Authored by: Mikey-San on Dec 23, '03 01:20:41AM

Don't use -9 off the bat, dammit!

See also:

http://sial.org/howto/shell/kill-9/



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NO NO NO
Authored by: toothfish on Dec 25, '03 09:27:20PM

Huh. I've been happily KILL -9ing stuff for a while now, but I just noticed that when I did this on a stuck ZIP archive it left an invisible file behind on my desktop called .BAHtemp-795-1804289383 so maybe it'd be a better idea to let the garbage cleanup do its job?



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why not try command-Q
Authored by: dirkstoop on Dec 23, '03 09:14:05PM

After the cancel-button disappears you can also just click the archive helper progress window (to make sure it's the active '.app') and hit command-Q, works for me all the time...



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