Restarting a half-started activity

[Alexander M. Latham]

--- Asheesh Laroia wrote:
As I debug how to start my activity with an LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or for other 
reasons), sometimes it fails to start correctly at all.  In those cases, 
my activity's icon just sits in the ring that shows running activities. 
When I move the mouse over it, Sugar tells me it is "Starting...", but 
when I look for its process in the 'ps aux' output, the process has 
already terminated.

How can I remove the activity from the "Sugar thinks it's starting" state 
so I can reattempt to start the activity without rebooting the laptop?

(Thanks all; you've been super helpful so far.  If my questions start 
running into FAQ territory I'm perfectly okay with being told to read some 
document.)

-- Asheesh.
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On later builds (I'm not sure exactly which build) there is a timeout on activities that are taking a long time to load, usually because of an error. The other option is to just restart X. You can do this by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace

- AlexL