CODEWITHSUNDEEP
macosprocessstate
cb0
cb0

Reputation: 8623

os x process state UE

I've got process running that can't be killed. It's my EyeTV App and here is what 'ps aux' says:

cb0      87583   1,0  3,4   812796 144236   ??  UE   21Nov09 2638:11.45 [.....]/EyeTV

The process state is really strange as I've never seen UE before. The manpage tells me

U means Marks a process in uninterruptible wait

E means The process is trying to exit

But I'm not able to kill the process. Any Idea how I could force it to exit??

Additional Info: None of the following statments worked:

Upvotes: 8

Views: 1827

Answers (1)

Spade Johnsson
Spade Johnsson

Reputation: 572

Have you tried using 

top

in order to get all active processes, and then 

kill(PID)

where PID will be referring to the EyeTV process ID handed to you by top? Also (and I am not sure this works two, but it just might), you could try

kill(pid,SIGTERM)

which sends a termination signal to the process (however that is used in C programming to kill a process, so I am not 100% sure it would work outside of the programming language, but worth a try)

Upvotes: -1

Related Questions