Hello Everyone,
Today, we received some data from a client on a burned CD. When
this was put into a Windows 2000 Professional workstation the CD was
deemed "unreadable" and locked up Explorer. I was able to clear the
issue by bringing up the task manager and killing explorer and
restarting that.
So, I took the CD and put it into one of our Linux servers. It
went into our standby server, configured to take over if the main server
fails. Anyway, I put the CD in and was able to read it. The names of the
files appeared in a quite unusual fashion, there were non-standard
characters listed.
I ran the 'cp' command and the system was able to copy all of
the files, save the last one, without a problem. What ended up being the
issue was that the file put the system into an endless error bad sector
loop. I was unable to kill the 'cp' process regardless of what I did.
Ctrl-c failed, kill -TERM with the PID didn't do anything either. In the
end, I rebooted the server and all appeared to be well.
Which had to be done as the process was slowly chewing up more
and more of the server CPU cycles, bringing the load up higher and
higher every few minutes. The reboot ended up taking care of the issue,
but I know that shouldn't have been necessary.
In the event that this happens in the future, does anyone know
of a method that will kill a process when "kill" fails?
Regards,
Robert Adkins II
IT Manager/Buyer
Impel Industries, Inc.
586-254-5800
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