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  1. Bug #412972
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Comment 6 for bug 412972

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Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden) wrote : Re: can only kill processes with -9 in karmic

I cannot reproduce this here.

  sleep 100 &
  killall sleep

works fine for me in Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 4 amd64 (with updates as of 2009-08-16):

  Script started on Sun 16 Aug 2009 06:54:43 PM PDT
  jonathan@black:~$ sleep 100 &
  [1] 28262
  jonathan@black:~$ killall sleep
  [1]+ Terminated sleep 100
  jonathan@black:~$ exit
  exit

  Script done on Sun 16 Aug 2009 06:55:00 PM PDT

Doing it with the sleep 100 in a separate terminal also works fine for me.