Can't stop WEBrick 1.3.1 with ctrl-c on Ubuntu 11.04

Question

I\'m using RVM, Ruby 1.9.2, and Rails 3.0.7

A standard kill of the process from another terminal doesn\'t work, either, but kill -9 does, of course.

I found

Answer 1

I had the same problem when updating my Ubuntu. Impossible to quit normally webrick using Ctrl+C, had to use kill -9...

Answer 2

I'm having a similar problem, have been using Ctrl+Z to pause the job, then kill -9 %1 to kill the first paused job. Roundabout way of killing it, but it works.

See this question on Superuser for more info: https://superuser.com/questions/243460/what-to-do-when-ctrl-c-cant-kill-a-process

Answer 3

If ctr+c is not working, then before going to implement the methods mentioned , just see your terminal settings. Sometimes it may happen that we change the shortcut keys of terminal as our convenience. And we assign ctr+c for copying content of terminal. In this case ctr+c wont work for stopping the server, instead it will be used as copy purpose.

If the settings are not changed then try using another port like 4000.

Answer 4

used this line to create shortcut with ccsm (compiz conig settings manager or smth like this) -> commands:

kill -9 `pgrep -fl 'script/rails s' | awk '{print $1}'`

set to (ctrl+shift+`) or anything you like

Answer 5

Found some kind of solution. Run in terminal:

stty -echoctl

And then Ctrl-C will work. http://linux.m2osw.com/remove-ctrl-C-from-being-printed-in-console

Worked just for one session. Posted better solution near.

Answer 6

Ok, the issue has been resolved for me. A recent kernel update, which I applied as part of Ubuntu's standard updates, fixed the problem.

Also, here is a good discussion of the issue, which explains that the root cause was a kernel regression introduced in 2.6.38 ( http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4777 )

The regression was patched, and it looks like the patch recently made it into Ubuntu's updates, so if you're being affected by this issue, you should apply the latest updates.