Async execution impossible after kernel kill

[moritzschaefer]

When killing a kernel (ob-ipython-kill-kernel), it is impossible to run async code blocks. They will be put to the execution queue (ob-ipython--async-queue), yet execution does not start. The reason for this is that ob-ipython-kill-kernel kills the kernel, but not the main ipython process. As a result, when a new async block is executed, it detects two things:

• There is a running process
• There are elements in the async queue already Based on these two observations it is inferred that there is some python code cell running at the moment and nothing should be done (but putting the planned execution in the queue).

Suggested solutions:

• ob-ipython-kill-kernel should kill both the kernel, and the ipython process
• ob-ipython-kill-kernel should empty the ob-ipython-async-queue

I just had a brief look at the relevant code am not so familiar with it so I'm curious what others think of this issue

[moritzschaefer]

Unfortunately there is nothing like a "reset button" for the whole system (at least I am not aware of it). So the only possibility to fix things is to restart emacs.