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Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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Posted by Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
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kill -9 496

when i type kill -9 496 . I received a -bash: kill: (496) - No such process.

2 Answers

Stephen Layton
Stephen Layton
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Stephen Layton
Stephen Layton
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It is possible that the PID doesn't exist. You can use ps aux to see a list of all processes for instance to see all node processes:

āžœ  ~  ps aux | grep node
www-data   950  0.4 17.5 996660 88132 ?        Sl   10:57   0:02 node index.js
www-data   956  0.3 16.3 993376 82036 ?        Sl   10:57   0:02 node index.js
www-data  1225  0.3 15.9 991732 80136 ?        Sl   10:57   0:02 node index.js
āžœ  ~  kill -9 956
Brigette Eckert
Brigette Eckert
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Brigette Eckert
Brigette Eckert
16,957 Points

If you tired to reload the page before loading it would have stopped the server when then error was received. I had this same problem- restarting the server with app.js node command and then using ps aux in a new tab worked for me. (note I attempted to reconnect after using ps aux, and the PID changed when I ran it again- so if you have this issue make sure to double check your PID).