[NCLUG] Can't kill process

[BJ Tiemessen]

It turns out it was an I/O error.  I added another hard drive to the box 
a few days ago (connected on same IDE cable) and the hard drive seems to 
have a problem.  I took the hard drive out and now I have no problems. 
 This was just the first time I tried to access the cdrom since I added 
the hdd and overlooked that.
I did find one other interesting thing though, if I log out, log back in 
as root, then log out again, the process will die.  Thanks for the help.

BJ

Sean Reifschneider wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:36:26PM -0700, BJ Tiemessen wrote:
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>>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 
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>Often the inability to kill a process means that it's stuck waiting for
>some particular resource in the kernel.  Particularly if you can't "kill
>-9" it.  If you do a "ps -awlx", what does the STAT column say?  I bet
>it's "D", which is "Uninterruptible sleep", usually meaning that it's
>waiting on I/O.  I don't know of any way short of rebooting to clear
>this.
>
>'Z' for STAT means that it's a zombie process, waiting for it's parent
>process to read it's exit status.
>
>Sean
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