Skype won't close

[Auslegung]

I have Skype 2.0 for Linux on 9.04 UNR and when I try to close Skype it freezes. If I click on force quit the Skype window goes away, but when running top it's still there and using about 95% of my cpu. If I do killall skype -v it says it was successful, but again when running top it's still there and using 95%.

Any ideas?

[nhasian]

try kill -9 instead of killall.

[Auslegung]

try kill -9 instead of killall.

I did that and this is what I got:

$ kill -9
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]

I looked at the man page for kill and tried to see if something else would work but it's not well-written (at least to me).

[nhasian]

sorry i should have been more specific. you have to include the PID (process ID) at the end of the statement. for example if the processID is 1234 then you would type:

sudo kill -9 1234

to see what the PID is for a running program, simply type:

top

press 'q' to exit out of top.

[llamabr]

Or, more specifically:

ps aux | grep skype

Then use kill -9 on the pid

[Holmen]

Or; Run top, press 'k', type the PID of Skype, press enter and then enter 9 as signal.

[fatality_uk]

Or; Run top, press 'k', type the PID of Skype, press enter and then enter 9 as signal.

Nice. I like this solution
Thanks

[Paqman]

I like xkill. Just Alt-F2, type xkill and click on the misbehaving app. No faffing around with process IDs.

[Eudaimon]

Thanks Holmen, worked for me!

[no2498]

look in your auto startup programs and un click skype
windows has its hand in skype now days