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'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