[solved] Unable to kill deluged

[dedanna1029]

Just as the subject says, I'm unable to kill deluged when I'm through with deluge. I've tried killall deluged, I've tried it both as regular user and as su. I've tried killing it both ways also by PID ("kill <pid#>"), and it still won't stop. It doesn't list itself as a service running, so I can't even try a "service stop".

Sometimes it runs with two instances, when I haven't even started two instances.

I've looked at the site; the site boasts that it shuts down cleanly. Don't believe it.

So far, the only way I can kill it is with a reboot. I have to somehow get to where I can kill it; it steals the majority of my bandwidth, my browsers and everything run very very slowly as long as it's running.

Help.

Thanks.

[viking60]

Oh yes those torrents can steel a lot of juice. I am not sure but it could matter what distro you are running on that box?
Can you kill it via htop?
If not deinstall it.
I use Transmission -nothing fancy- but I can start and stop it as I like. I like to feed back to the distros I use. But when the bandwith is needed it goes down.

[dedanna1029]

Unable to kill via htop, tried that too. Sorry, meant to mention that.

It's not the torrents downloading that is killing things. It's not even deluge itself. It's deluged, the daemon for deluge. Damn daemon's unnecessary in my book; deluge should be able to run without a daemon too, and it normally does *I think*. However, in this instance, both start when I just fire up deluge. I used to use Transmission, 'til I found that when I go into my browser and download a torrent file, I don't have Transmission as an option to start it with. All I have is deluge.

[rolf]

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kill -9 <pid#>

Did you add the -9 switch to kill? That usually is a trump card.

[dedanna1029]

Fore and Score! That got it!

Now to figure out why it isn't killing when I shut down deluge, and I have no clue how to go about that one.

Thanks Rolf.

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[viking60]

Just to learn something: I guess you find the running deamons with

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ps aux

or

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ps ux

right? And the you kill the pid number listed there? I follow.
I just have no clue what the -9 switch does? (Well except that it actually kills the reluctant deamon:)

Edit:
I Googled it : The -9 will ensure "execution"

[dedanna1029]

What I did was just ran top, found the PID that way, then just ran kill -9 <that PID#>.

I think I need to try the upstream version of deluge. This one, no matter what I do, won't kill deluged when I shut down deluge. I have to run the command Rolf posted to kill the daemon.

[dedanna1029]

I figured out what it was. I took another look through preferences in deluge, and found that I had ticked in the daemon section "Check the web site for updates". Turned that off, and haven't had a problem since.

Thanks.