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Reboot a hung system with Spotlight and Terminal
Dear God it worked! Thank You Thank You Thank You! I just saved 9 hours of writing a tech manual by being able to kill the hung process without killing everything!
Reboot a hung system with Spotlight and Terminal
How can I kill a single process? For example, Safari?
Reboot a hung system with Spotlight and Terminal
With the terminal open, type top and press enter. Look for the program you want to quit and note its PID. Then type q to quit TOP, and enter sudo kill -9 xxx where xxx is the PID of the program you want to kill. Enter your password when prompted. The program should die, and hopefully free your hung machine.
Reboot a hung system with Spotlight and Terminal
I think:
killall Safari Will work much easier for you ;). If that doesn't seem to do anything, I think (don't quote me 100% on this), that killall -9 Safari will work a bit more brute force. If that doesn't work, prepending sudo to the command will... hopefully.
Reboot a hung system with Spotlight and Terminal
In addition to the above Terminal commands, you can: |
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