Originally Posted by codeMonkey

If you kill/stop the mce process more than (rough estimate) 4 times in approx 2 minutes the service doesn't restart.
You're best off using something like

Code:

initctl stop mce; sleep 2; initctl start mce

because it gives feedback - so will tell you if it hasn't been able to start or stop it.

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