You are not logged in.
Recently something fishy is going on with my conky session, and simple killal does not kill it (not investigated the cause, yet). I need to do a
killal -9 conky
to completely kill it. I am wondering if there is a specific reason that currently we use killall without -9 in bl-conky-session.
Offline
killall's default signal is 15 or SIGTERM. This is usually enough, and allows a process to shut down cleanly, tidying up first. 9 or SIGKILL kills the process right off, no ifs or buts, and should be avoided unless (as in your case) nothing else works.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … -9-sigkill
...elevator in the Brain Hotel, broken down but just as well...
( a boring Japan blog (currently paused), idle Twitterings and GitStuff )
Offline
I do notice with killing a process with -9 option there may be zombie process(es) left behind taking up space.
Real Men Use Linux
Online
Upgrade may do the trick
apt-cache policy conky
conky:
Installed: 1.10.6-1
...
If it shows something else, you may want to
sudo apt remove --purge conky
sudo apt install conky
At least on this machine conky did not update with usual system update/upgrade.
Offline
For killing a conky session there is also Sector11's method with pkill:
pkill -xf "conky -q -c $HOME/.config/conky/BL-Default.conkyrc"
Using the same path in " " as for starting the conky is required.
Offline
@johnraff Thanks for the explanation, makes sense now.
@DeepDayze Hm, I did not notice something like that, but I actually never tested this.
@brontosaurusrex Thanks, but I do not understand. I have conky-all (not conky) 1.10.6-1 installed, and the debian package page does not show any newer packages, not even for backports. So why would I need to update conky? (I have Helium with backports, but nothing installed from there, and no buster either.)
@martix I do not mind using killall. I would restart all conky sessions, anyway (takes less effort than to only restart one of them), so might as well kill all of them before. :-) But thanks, good to know about pkill if I need to combine grep and kill together.
Offline
Moderator here, I'm moving this to BL & General Linux Discussion...
Offline
I had similar trouble with older versions of conky and...., well.
Offline