killing stubborn processes

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Author: J
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Subject: killing stubborn processes
try "kill -9" under root console

> On occasion I've had a program freeze (mostly it's xine). I haven't been
> able to kill the program when this happens.
>
> I've tried restarting X, all that does is remove the applications
> interface from my screen. `ps -ax` still shows it as running.
>
> I've tried `kill` and that has no effect.
>
> So my question is how do you kill a process when `kill` doesn't work?
>
>
> Thx,
> Bart
>
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