What Do I Do If a Message Is Displayed Indicating that the Process Already Exists When MindStudio IDE Is Restarted After MindStudio IDE Exits Unexpectedly?

Symptom

MindStudio IDE exits unexpectedly due to network exceptions. When a user restarts MindStudio IDE, an error message is displayed, indicating that the process already exists. See Figure 1.

Figure 1 Prompt message

Solution

  1. Run the ps -ef | grep java command to check the background processes. Find the corresponding PID, for example, 713.
  2. Run the kill -9 command to stop the existing process. For example, run the kill -9 713 command to stop process 713.
  3. Run ./MindStudio.sh to restart MindStudio IDE.