Some aplications I need (like VLC player, Office, etc) I instaled via linux beta on my Chromebooks. It works fine most of the time but when one of those processes crashes I can't kill it or restart it quickly. So far only shuting down the entire Chromebook system solves the problem (But it is really annoying have to restart and wait long minutes). Example: I often use VLC to show some subtitled .mkv movies during my classes and often the application freezes/crashes. The icon of VLC still appear on the taskbar but do not respond (circle/running - see image below) and I am not able to open another (or the same) video.
I found no answer for this question on StackExchange sites and those searches listed below also don't solve the problem:
Shut Down Linux (BETA) - DOES NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM
Kill linux beta process on linux terminal - DO NOT WORK BECAUSE THE SPECIFIC PROCESS IS NOT LISTED via PS/PID See image below:
Force close app via Chromebook task manager - DO NOT SOLVE because the process is not listed
kill -9 <PID>
, notkil -9 <PID>
, and that PID, 1001, is of the grep command, which has finished running. That process list seems exceedingly short.