Yes, I've tried all the basic kill, pkill, etc. methods that come up with a Google search.
Sometimes it works, other times it seems something is preventing the process from terminating.
There is no stderr message when the kill command fails, but ps, pgrep, etc. show the process is still running.
Is there a more forceful way to do this? Thanks.
kill -KILL $PID or kill -9 $PID will forcibly terminate $PID, unless you don't have the permissions to do so (i.e., it belongs to a different user and you're not root), but be very careful with it. Inflicting it on a process will prevent it from doing any kind of filesystem (or other) cleanup.
kill -9 might not always stop the process in the time frame you would like - unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5642/…
kill -9 <PID>psshow for this process? Please edit your question and add this information.pgrep, and alsops aux. Wouldn't even let me do a clean reboot. It's not the first time I've encountered this behaviour.psso we can see what it reports for the process? Also, if you've triedkill -9and that also fails, add that to your question too. The more detail you give, the more likely it is that we'll be able to answer.