Unkillable processes

[toast]

The problem is: if I ask for iTunes and TurboMem to open at session startup, iTunes 2 will crash: any attempt to get the application in front will show the rainbow cursor and nothing more.

The Force Quit won't work.

The kill -KILL 243 (itunes) won't work.

Now what ? The problem has stopped sdince I removed the programs from the session startup. But the problem is: these processes did refuse to get killed even by kill -KILL !

Any explanation ?

[dricci]

I've always used kill -9 <process> for all of my killing needs. never failed me yet.

[fintler]

Although I have no idea as to why that won't quit...I'd just like to point out that kill -9 is the same as kill -KILL ...here's a list of the cooresponding numbers to signals...

kill -l
1) SIGHUP 2) SIGINT 3) SIGQUIT 4) SIGILL
5) SIGTRAP 6) SIGIOT 7) SIGEMT 8) SIGFPE
9) SIGKILL 10) SIGBUS 11) SIGSEGV 12) SIGSYS
13) SIGPIPE 14) SIGALRM 15) SIGTERM 16) SIGUSR1
17) SIGUSR2 18) SIGCHLD 19) SIGPWR 20) SIGWINCH
21) SIGURG 22) SIGIO 23) SIGSTOP 24) SIGTSTP
25) SIGCONT 26) SIGTTIN 27) SIGTTOU 28) SIGVTALRM
29) SIGPROF

[chenly]

TurboMem is *VERY* buggy and has all sorts of unintended consequences. I'd dump it.