My friend was running firefox on linux mint, and it froze and he used xkill to kill firefox. But still it shows up in htop ps -aux. He tried to kill it multiple times but it didn't work. See the pictures for explanation. We had to kill power to shutdown, even systemd can't stop that process.

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago

You can cat /proc/PID/stack to see what it's wedged on in kernel land.

I'm guessing maybe something related to the GPU, maybe some kind of driver bug?

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