[NCLUG] Can't kill process

[BJ Tiemessen]

I have a hung process than just won't die.  I was trying to install an 
RPM off a cdrom and now rpmdrake is hung and my cdrom drive has been 
spinning for a few hours.  I've spent an hour searching the internet and 
cant find any helpfull information on this.  I have tried kill -9 and 
killall but both fail to kill the process.  I was able to kill the 
parent processes so now the PPID is 1, but I still cant kill PID 7244. 
 I know I could always reboot but I would like to learn how to do this 
just in case I ever run into this again in an environment where I cant 
reboot as easy.  
Thanks.

BJ