On Jul 17, 7:21 am, Edmund <nom...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> How to find what processes are running and how to kill one?
> It seems that an FTP process is running and now the windows from
> "Search for Files" doesn't open anymore :-(

The most 'global' method (that is, the one that works anywhere) is to
open a console or xterm and enter
ps aux
which will list all running processes.

To kill one of the processes, note down its PID, and (as the
appropriate user), enter
kill <PID>
(replacing <PID> with the PID you noted earlier). This will do a
"nice" kill (a SIGTERM, actually) of the process. If the process
refuses to die, you can
kill -9 <PID>
to kill it dead.

Remember, you can't kill "zombie" (stopped) processes or processes
that are in an Uninteruptable wait state.

HTH
--
Lew