Due to the fact that my office’s PC always down with no reason and leaving bunch of vim zombie sessions in my remote machine, I am tired for rescuing them times by times.
Finally, I found a way to resolve this issue.
Setup
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04
- Command required:
reptyrandps
Find PIDs of those zombie vim session
$> ps aux | grep vi
Rescue them
$> reptyr PID
Permission Problem
In case you got error like below
$ reptyr 1851
Unable to attach to pid 1851: Operation not permitted
The kernel denied permission while attaching. If your uid matches
the target's, check the value of /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope.
For more information, see /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf
Fix this by editing configuration from
1 to 0$vi /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf
kernel.yama.ptrace_scope = 0
Reload rule
$ sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf
Done.