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How to kill all processes in one virtual console from another virtual console?

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When I press Ctrl + Alt + F(1-6), I'm directed to virtual terminal. I've two user account except guest. When I try to login from one of those two users, my system gets hang. So, I was wondering how to restart that virtual console from another virtual console or how to kill all processes in one virtual console from another virtual console.

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answered 1 Year ago tigehanc · Accepted Answer

Run in terminal

ps -ft tty2

Output will be look like:

UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD

root      1024     1  0 06:52 tty2     00:00:00 /bin/login --     

gulu      3532  1024  0 09:15 tty2     00:00:00 -bash

Here I am going to kill Virtual Console 2 (tty2). Just kill the pid of /bin/login -- with root privilege

kill -9 <pid>

here,

kill -9 1024