os x process state UE

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I've got process running that can't be killed. It's my EyeTV App and here is what 'ps aux' says:

cb0      87583   1,0  3,4   812796 144236   ??  UE   21Nov09 2638:11.45 [.....]/EyeTV

The process state is really strange as I've never seen UE before. The manpage tells me

U means Marks a process in uninterruptible wait

E means The process is trying to exit

But I'm not able to kill the process. Any Idea how I could force it to exit??

Additional Info: None of the following statments worked:

  • kill -S KILL
  • kill -S QUIT
  • kill -2
  • kill -9
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macosprocessstate
Are you able to kill it with Force Quite (outside bash session)? - sweetfa
I really don't know. It's been nearly 4 years ago :) But I'm sure I also tried this option. - cb0
To bad there were no follow ups on this. 9 years now and can't find to much info on it. I did a fresh Catalina install (because of errors like this) and I still didn't get rid of it. It's mostly related to electron apps for me, just fyi. - cuzzea

1 Answers

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Have you tried using 

top

in order to get all active processes, and then 

kill(PID)

where PID will be referring to the EyeTV process ID handed to you by top? Also (and I am not sure this works two, but it just might), you could try

kill(pid,SIGTERM)

which sends a termination signal to the process (however that is used in C programming to kill a process, so I am not 100% sure it would work outside of the programming language, but worth a try)