Eric Worden wrote: > I was using git, and while things seemed to be idle I snuck the floppy out > to peak at the label. I put it back in. Then after the next operation I > got: > > kernel panic: msdos_write_inode: unable to read i-node block > floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 3 > > Now the program responds to nothing, not even KILL. To make things more > interesting, I got the bright idea to mount the floppy again, so now two > processes are in limbo. Is there a graceful way to solve this problem?? > > Eric Worden >
I can't think of anything brilliant to do with the disk other than reformat it, but won't kill -9 <process #> as root from another virtual console a least make zombies out of them ? (not graceful - but hopefully effective) John -- Powered by the Penguin
