there are stopped jobs, cannot logout

Question

Im on a remote PC, where "there are stopped jobs, cannot logout". But im leaving, and my connection will break. I tried killing the job, but it still says this.

$ exit
logout
There are stopped jobs.

In the future, how can I safely log out, when this happens?

Solution

If you use the Ctrl-A-D shortcut jobs can be pushed to the background. Users of the screen command or the like often accidentally background jobs by forgetting they're not in a screen anymore.

using

fg

will bring a job to the foreground.

You can also check what processes are running under your user with:

ps aux | grep USERNAME

This will hopefully give you an indication of what was running, along with the process ID for that job.

You can then use:

kill PROCESSIDNUMBER

to stop that job.

I hope this helps!

Kind Regards

Comments

[Jakuje]

What is the output of jobs? How did you try to kill the job? Which job?

[Fl.pf.]

can you put the job to the foreground with fg? can you get a job-ID and kill ${ID} it manually? Does the job need to run after you logout (so maybe nohup job & it)?