Skype Just Won't Stop!

Jeff Cross jeff.cross at averageadmins.com
Fri Apr 7 03:36:22 UTC 2006


Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:42:35 +0200
> Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net> wrote:
> 
>> Jeff Cross <jeff.cross at averageadmins.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I know, I know... I shouldn't be running Skype anyways, but...
>>>
>>> Skype works like a champ under FreeBSD.  Many thanks for the port.
>>> However, when I exit Skype, either by clicking the 'X' or by Going to
>>> File > Close, it just keeps running, and running, and running...  I have
>>> to manually kill like 4-5 processes to get it to finally go away.
>> There's a difference between closing the window and quitting the application.
>> In case you use Gnome or KDE, Skype should but itself into the panel (into
>> the notification-area applet in case of Gnome) when closing the window.
>>
>> For everything else we need more information regarding your environment: "ls
>> -1 /var/db/pkg| grep linux".
> 
> Also what signal do you use to kill it and what state is the process in
> when you "close" it.
> 

I hate to say this, but today the program exits as expected.  I was
using kill -9 PID to kill it yesterday but don't remember what state it
was in.

Thanks for everyone's assistance with this.  I will forward the
requested information if it starts acting up again.

Jeff


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