[arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

[Martti Kühne]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 07:08:34AM -0800, Don deJuan wrote:
> pgrep -P `pidof openbox` | xargs kill -s SIGTERM
> sleep 5
> 
> it throws an error in regards to pgrep, I believe but it goes by so
> quickly I can not read the whole thing.
> 
> So not really sure whats going on but even though it does not work
> 100% properly it gets passed locking up with a red screen or just
> with a cursor. If I can sort this out further I will post back the
> results and mark this solved.
> 
> Thanks again for the help I have gotten so far.

Actually it should be unrelated because afaict you're executing this command
from a terminal emulator which is a child process of the process tree you're
attempting to kill, which leads to a self-reference, which the kernel should
handle okay. So, it likely says "broken pipe" or something that way?

cheers!
mar77i