[CUBE] whaddya do when "Force Quit" doesn't?

[Arturo Pérez]

On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 12:05  AM, a l a n t h o m p s o n 
wrote:

> i mean, i've tried it from the apple menu, the process view app 
> (last), and from the shell.
>
> kill 1455
> kill -9 1455
>
> nothing!  it's the process that won't die!!!!  (1455 is the pid of the 
> app, which in this case is Graphic Converter).
>
> argh!!!
>
For a typical Unix if a process doesn't die when you zap it with "kill 
-9" it means one of two things:
	1)  The app is waiting for the disk.  Under the STAT of 'ps -l' you'll 
see a capital 'D'.  No way to kill something waiting for disk.
	2) The app has corrupted itself so badly that it can't even take 
signals (what kill-9 does under the covers).
	You might be able to kill -STOP it and run another copy of the app if 
you need to.

In both cases your only choice is to wait them out.