On 7/29/05, Damian Menscher <menscher@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 What would cause a process to get so stuck that it could not be killed? I just want to know before I fall into that trap myself. Dotan Cohen http://song-lirics.com/sl/index.php Song Lirics
