MS Customer Support

[Darryl Moore]

LOL
:-)

Personally I use pkill when working on the commandline

Since I'm not sure anyone has done a curses port of openoffice, I was
pretty sure he was working in 'X' and therefore would have easy access
to some GUI sysadmin tools.

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, Darryl Moore wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure Duncan's query was related to your issue, though I could be
>> wrong.
>>
>> I suspected that might have been your problem. I've found this
>> occationally with Open Office, as well as Thunderbird and Firefox.
>>
>> Usually it does not require a reboot. Just open up the system monitor
>> and kill it there.
> 
>    System monitor? What's that? top?
> 
>    I use:
> 
> killall <name of program>
> 
>    or:
> 
> ps -ef | grep <name of program>; kill <pid> ...
> 
>    I find that KDE apps are the worst offenders; they often stay alive
>    in the background after exiting.
> 
>> Howard Gibson wrote:
>>> On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:33:57 -0400 Duncan MacGregor <dbmacg-HLeSyJ3qPdM at public.gmane.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has *anybody* ever had a satisfactory solution to a problem they
>>>> presented  to MS customer support?
>>>>
>>>> How much did it cost you? Just   asking.
>>> Duncan,
>>>
>>> This is Open Office, not Microsoft Office.
>>>
>>> I have solved the problem.  One reason Open Office will not launch is
>>> that an Open Office process already is running.  I was unable to find
>>> the process, but rebooting the computer fixed it.
>>>
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