[Chimera-users] kill graphics windows after crash: it happend again

Eric Pettersen pett at cgl.ucsf.edu
Thu Oct 15 15:40:30 PDT 2020


Hi Dieter,
	I guess next time look for "python" in the process table and also note its "state" column (titled "S").  You may not be able to kill the process if its state is "Z" (zombie process) or "U" (uninterruptible wait).  Regardless, try to kill it with "kill -s KILL process_id".

--Eric

> On Oct 15, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Dieter Blaas <dieter.blaas at meduniwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> Dear Greg,
> 
>      as I stated, I moved the chimera windows to the bottom of the screen and finally to another workspace. A day later, chimera had closed. So I suspect that it is just a matter of time until it closes.... Something seems to very much retard its reaction to mouse clicks! I shall continue observing and use the 'Report a Bug' if it occurs again....
> 
> thanks again, best, Dieter
> 
> 
> 
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> Dieter Blaas,
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> Medical University of Vienna, 
> Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), 
> Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, 
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> On 14.10.2020 08:12, Greg Couch wrote:
>> Chimera will show up as "python" in the process table.  That's one of the fixes we made with ChimeraX, it shows up as ChimeraX.  If you haven't done so already, when running Chimera, please use the Help / Report a Bug... dialog so we have a record of how your current system is configured (version of Linux, graphics driver version, etc.).  Are you still running Chimera remotely using VirtualGL?  If so, please state that in the description.
>> 
>>     Thanks,
>> 
>>     Greg
>> 
>> On 10/13/2020 10:46 PM, Dieter Blaas wrote:
>>> Hi, 
>>> 
>>>     it happened again: after the message that the loading of a map was very slow chimera got stuck and I cannot get rid of its windows. If I open something else it overlays the chimera windows. ps -ealf|grep chimera just shows me a single process, namely the one of ps. Please see attached screenshots! For the moment I can push the chimera windows out of view but I cannot close them. I possibly have to reboot again.... 
>>> 
>>> thanks for hints, bw Dieter 
>>> 
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>>> Dieter Blaas, 
>>> Max Perutz Laboratories 
>>> Medical University of Vienna, 
>>> Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), 
>>> Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, 
>>> A-1030 Vienna, Austria, 
>>> Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630, 
>>> Mobile: 0043 699 1942 1659 
>>> e-mail: dieter.blaas at meduniwien.ac.at <mailto:dieter.blaas at meduniwien.ac.at> 
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>>> 
>>> On 06.10.2020 04:24, Dieter Blaas wrote: 
>>>> Dear Tom and Eric, 
>>>> 
>>>>      thank you! In the meantime I finally decided to reboot! The situation is difficult to reproduce but happens once within several months either because of a very slow network (when we experience general problems with the server) or because there is something wrong in a saved and then modified session file. However, I cannot exclude that the cause is something else! Fact is that I then cannot close any of the chimera windows, they simply stay open despite having killed all related processes. 
>>>> 
>>>> Could it be caused from working remotely over VNC? But when restarting the VNC server and then restarting Chimera it usually happens again! When I observe it next time I'll try "kill -s KILL process_id" and also take screen shots. As I am the only user rebooting is not a problem! 
>>>> 
>>>> best, Dieter 
>>>> 
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>>>> Dieter Blaas, 
>>>> Max Perutz Laboratories 
>>>> Medical University of Vienna, 
>>>> Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), 
>>>> Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, 
>>>> A-1030 Vienna, Austria, 
>>>> Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630, 
>>>> Mobile: 0043 699 1942 1659 
>>>> e-mail: dieter.blaas at meduniwien.ac.at <mailto:dieter.blaas at meduniwien.ac.at> 
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>>>> 
>>>> On 05.10.2020 20:58, Tom Goddard wrote: 
>>>>> Hi Dieter, 
>>>>> 
>>>>>    I am curious what you are using in Chimera that uses the network when you have to kill it?  I tried fetching a large EM map (10860, ~500 Mbytes) from EMDB with File / Fetch by ID on Mac, then I turned off my wifi part way through and tried ctrl-C in the shell where I had started Chimera 1.14.  One try it exited the program, and the second try it gave a keyboard interrupt message and Chimera was no longer hung.  If I left my wifi on then the stop button in the lower left corner of the Chimera window at the front of the status messages successfully stopped the download.  But if I disconnected the wifi, that stop button didn't work. 
>>>>> 
>>>>>    Maybe you are on Linux or maybe Chimera is hung on some web service you are using like BLAST.... 
>>>>> 
>>>>>     Tom 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Oct 5, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu> <mailto:pett at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Dieter, 
>>>>>>     Instead of "kill process_id" try "kill -s KILL process_id". 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --Eric 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>     Eric Pettersen 
>>>>>>     UCSF Computer Graphics Lab 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Oct 4, 2020, at 9:05 AM, Dieter Blaas <dieter.blaas at meduniwien.ac.at> <mailto:dieter.blaas at meduniwien.ac.at> wrote: 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi, 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     please forgive me when this question is not directly related to Chimera: Sometimes Chimera becomes unresponsive because of a slow network connection. When I then try exiting it or killing it with <ctrl> c from the terminal I used to start it or killing the chimera-related process as shown with ps -ealf|grep UCSF or grep chimera the chimera windows remain and I cannot remove them. Any way of doing so? 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks for hints, best, Dieter 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>>>>> Dieter Blaas, 
>>>>>>> Max Perutz Labortories 
>>>>>>> Medical University of Vienna, 
>>>>>>> Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), 
>>>>>>> Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, 
>>>>>>> A-1030 Vienna, Austria, 
>>>>>>> Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630, 
>>>>>>> Mobile: 0043 699 1942 1659 
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