LKBEN11063: Posix error 3: No such process
LKB | Created: 02/04/2020 | Version: 0 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False
Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Symptom
You get the error message: No such process
Cause
none
Solution
This message can come up in various situation under linux.
e.g.
SIOCADDRT: No such process
Failed to bring up eth0
This can be caused by mainboards who swap the eth0 and eth1 at boot time.
Most of the time it really says what it is.
e.g.
Start vim on a system
Now we search the process PID
ps aux|grep vim
lubby 6873 0.7 0.9 4996 2460 pts/0 S+ 09:42 0:00 vim
We demand it to be killed
kill 6873
The process is killed
Now we do it again
kill 6873 and will have the error: -bash: kill: (6873) - No such process
About the Author
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.