On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Gaspar Bakos wrote:
We are trying to kill a process that is "stuck", and we have found no way to kill it yet. We tried kill with many signals, including 'kill -9', and also removing forcedly the 'st' module on which this nasty tar is running. Any ideas? ------ 21586 ? D 0:14 tar tvf /dev/nst0 PPid: 1
You have three options: o Wait for it to finish on its own (may never happen if it's trying to access a hardware device that no longer exists). o Ignore it -- it's not using resources anyway. o Kill its parent. In your case, the parent is init, so this is equivalent to rebooting. Damian Menscher -- -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=- -=#| 4602 Beckman, VMIL/MS, Imaging Technology Group:(217)244-3074 |#=- -=#| <menscher@xxxxxxxx> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=- -=#| The above opinions are not necessarily those of my employers. |#=-
