Kill all IPC semaphores. Useful when someone forgets to properly clean up. Borrowed and enhanced from a stackoverflow question.

kill-ipc.sh

#!/bin/bash
PATH="/bin:/usr/bin"

ipcs
read -p "press enter to kill all the ipc process owned by ${USER}"

IPCS_S=$(ipcs -s | egrep "0x[0-9a-f]+ [0-9]+" | grep ${USER} | cut -f2 -d" ")
IPCS_M=$(ipcs -m | egrep "0x[0-9a-f]+ [0-9]+" | grep ${USER} | cut -f2 -d" ")
IPCS_Q=$(ipcs -q | egrep "0x[0-9a-f]+ [0-9]+" | grep ${USER} | cut -f2 -d" ")

for id in $IPCS_M; do
  ipcrm -m $id;
done

for id in $IPCS_S; do
  ipcrm -s $id;
done

for id in $IPCS_Q; do
  ipcrm -q $id;
done