Unless it’s in “D” state, then Linux be like “fine, you can annihilate the mf, but there are unfinished IO operations on the now disconnected NFS storage, so… maybe let’s just wait?”
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A stop job is running for ...
1 min 30 seconds of estimated 1 minute
Five minutes have passed... SysRq + B
REISUB for a cleaner shutdown sequence syncing disks and the like. I read the mnemonic "Raising Elephants Is Utterly Boring" once and I still remember it years later lol
I prefer "Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken"
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I learned a bit ago that if you hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete seven times very quickly, it'll bypass a stop task that is being pesky like this!
I found out that if I press the power button it does nothing. If I press it for four seconds, it still does nothing. But if I press it for eight seconds...
KABOOM
I ran into a bug where if I shutdown my PC with anything running through Wine, it will hang at "a stop process" for wineserver, and even that shortcut would not work
I once invoked shutdown right after moving a lot of stuff (> 500GB) on HDDs and the thing timed out before the HDD could finish its thing.
How do you 'stop' a stop job at that point and make the system wait longer before shutdown?
Grave dance
Ah, kill -9. Me old pal. Always ready to assist when inconvenient bodies needs to be buried out back. Best friend ever.
Respect my -15, or I'll be back with my -9
That's the spirit!
Have you ever dealt with zombie processes?
What about orphaned children of zombie processes?
That Cannot Be Killed Which Is Already Dead.
At least those eat no resources besides taking up space in htop. And can be traced to the parent being weird.
Have you dealt with io-locked processes? Funny D-statuses spreading like a disease, anything that touches an infected process or resource also inherits it. Worst cases I have seen (nfs client kernel module not connecting a mountpoint properly) made every one of those fully resistant to -9.
Doesn’t do much if the process is in uninterruptible I/o. Kill can’t do much against syscalls that aren’t returning, you’ll be rebooting. You can try this https://github.com/mitchty/nix/blob/shenanigans/src/evilkill.sh but it’s not guaranteed to work. It’s just trying to force the process to exit(), but it doesn’t always work and can’t. All that script amounts to is attaching a debugger and executing assembly to mimic exit. I’ll say 60% of the time it works 100% of the time when kill doesn’t.
I'm a kill -KILL guy, really satisfying to type.
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Linux will try SIGQUIT first, and you can immediately kill a process in Windows too. taskkill /f /im firefox.exe
Yeah, and when's the last time anyone has legitimately seen Windows bluescreen for lack of RAM? I'm assuming that's the "logic" here, because in what world would a stuck browser cause a full crash?
Man, I sure love tech memes not remotely based in reality.
Almost as if they are meant to be exaggerated and funny.
Been a while since I've seen a bluescreen period. 10 and 11, for all their faults, have been pretty stable on that front. Crowdstrike did spoil a very good run.
I don't see windows bluescreens because I don't use it. We are not the same. Only lame Windows nerds know the flaws in this meme ;)
The problem is that you're using Windows 95.
Windows tip: clicking the X button multiple times will often kill a frozen app.
Windows tip: don't use it
I know it's not totally accurate but this got an audible laugh out of me.
Lol, are you guys talking about windows 7?Jesus... I've got Linux machines, and I get it. They're great for servers. But what the fuck is this nonsense? Lol.
You're all clowns is you think this is true in 2026.
Edit: important note: Mac freezes all the goddamn time. Fucking fuck Mac and apple.
killall -9
I remember Lego Robot Comics. Weird, this is the second time they've come up on Lemmy in as many months.
My favorite was the one about CANDY?? FOR BREAKFAST????
XKill my beloved.
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