> 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 > In this cause, probably a faulty device driver.
