(SOLVED) Can't kill Vivaldi with the killall command

jim217

I am running Linux Mint MATE 18.1.
If I run the killall command in the terminal and enter 'killall firefox',
it will shutdown firefox if firefox is running. The same holds true for
other applications, like caja or chromium for example.
Not so with vivaldi. I have tried 'killall vivaldi', 'killall vivaldi-stable',
'killall /usr/bin/vivaldi', 'killall /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable'.
The terminal always returns 'no process found'.

Anyone know why ?
Thanks, Arky

lamarca

@jim217 said in Can't kill Vivaldi with the killall command:

I am running Linux Mint MATE 18.1.
If I run the killall command in the terminal and enter 'killall firefox',
it will shutdown firefox if firefox is running. The same holds true for
other applications, like caja or chromium for example.
Not so with vivaldi. I have tried 'killall vivaldi', 'killall vivaldi-stable',
'killall /usr/bin/vivaldi', 'killall /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable'.
The terminal always returns 'no process found'.

Anyone know why ?
Thanks, Arky

Vivaldi has multiples instances, That's why the killall command does not work.
Try:
kill -9 PID

jim217

@lamarca

Ok, but how do I find the PID of vivaldi ?
If I enter pidof caja, it returns a number.
If I enter pidof xed, it returns a number.
On vivaldi, it returns nothing.
And even if it did return the PID,
how could you do that and use the number
in a script ? You would have to have the
PID # be put into a varible and the variable
used with the kill command.
Is that possible ?

Also, I was reading about how to use the killall command,
and in several places, they all say the killall command
will kill all instances of the process; and that you don't
need to know the pid's, just the process name.

Thanks,
Arky

lamarca

@jim217 said in Can't kill Vivaldi with the killall command:

Ok, but how do I find the PID of vivaldi ?

The ps command line shows you.

ps -eo pid,comm,etime | grep -v grep | grep -i vivaldi

lamarca

@andyf and don't forget the vivaldi-sandbox.

jim217

@andyf I don't know what you mean by that.
If I have Vivaldi running and I want to kill it from a script,
then what would be the command line in the script ?

Arky

lamarca

@jim217 I posted the command line and its output above

jim217

@lamarca Ok, thank you very much!
The command 'killall vivaldi-bin' does work for me.

When I enter 'killall vivaldi-sandbox', however,
it returns 'no process found'.
It does that whether I enter it before 'killall vivaldi-bin'
or after.

When I enter 'vivaldi://sandbox in the address bar of vivaldi,
it shows 'yes' to everything except 'SUID sandbox'.
Yet, it says at the bottom 'You are adequately sandboxed.'
Is that normal, or should it also say 'yes' to 'SUID sandbox'.
And is that why when I enter 'killall vivaldi-sandbox', as
Lamarca suggested I also do, that it
returns 'no process found' ?

Thanks, Arky

lamarca

@andyf said in Can't kill Vivaldi with the killall command:

@lamarca I don't have a vivaldi-sandbox running, just ten instances of vivaldi-bin.

What is your platform?

jim217

I'm running Linux Mint 18.1 MATE.

Since vivaldi://sandbox shows that there is no
SUID sandbox, should I be using firejail with
vivaldi ?

I've tried firejail with vivaldi in the past but
it doesn't work; there seems to be something
amiss in the firejail vivaldi profile.

jim217

@jim217

@Lamarca
When I run that command 'ps -eo pid,comm,etime | grep -v grep | grep -i vivaldi',
it shows 13 instances of vivaldi-bin, but no vivaldi-sandbox.

Arky

lamarca

@jim217 said in Can't kill Vivaldi with the killall command:

Since vivaldi://sandbox shows that there is no
SUID sandbox, should I be using firejail with
vivaldi ?

It's your decision.
What about the command line to kill all Vivaldi instances, is it solved?

jim217

@lamarca Yes, 'killall vivaldi-bin' kills all the instances of vivaldi.

Thank you !

Steffie

@jim217 I run V-SS, V-Stable, all my other browsers, & lots of other pgms, in FJ fine [albeit i find that sometimes new FJ versions break launcher options that used to work, & fix l/o that used to play up]. These days, since discovering & adopting FJ, i feel positively "undressed" if i run pgms "natively".
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michaa7

I am on Debian (basis for ubuntu->mint) and, if there is a need, I use "pkill vivaldi" which kills whatever "vivaldi*" (vivaldi-bin, vivaldi-snapshot) is running.