"There are suspended (stopped) jobs"

"There are suspended (stopped) jobs"


A job was started, then suspended or stopped with the Ctrl-z or some key combination.
Error:
> logout


There are suspended jobs.


---- Replicate the issue ----
kalyanLinux{10}$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 22 2014, 09:42:36)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
Suspended


kalyanLinux{11}$ exit
There are suspended jobs.


kalyanLinux{12}$ jobs   --- This is one way to verify the jobs and you can get the process ID of it and kill the session
[1]  + Suspended                     python


kalyanLinux{13}$ ps -ef | grep python
kalyan   27839 26486  0 22:52 pts/0    00:00:00 python
kalyan   27864 26486  0 22:54 pts/0    00:00:00 grep python


kalyanLinux{14}$ kill 27839


kalyanLinux{15}$
[1]    Terminated                    python


kalyanLinux{15}$ jobs   ---- After killing the session you wont see any jobs exists with jobs command


kalyanLinux{16}$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 22 2014, 09:42:36)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
>>>
>>>
Suspended


kalyanLinux{17}$ fg    ---- This is another way of check the jobs and this command fg will take you into the session, you can safely exit from the session like below
python
exit


Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit
>>>