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.
I knew it was something related to kernel. Now I have some some explanation of if this happens again.
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?