On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:18:55AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Argh. That _is_ "kill -9"!! Gadzooks!
> 
> If kill -9 doesn't work, nothing else will either.
> The process is in the kernel, doubtless grinding away at some unbounded and
> hopeless error recovery process.

Someone goofed in the kernel--in Unix, this would be code that is
inappropriately in a critical region bounded by splN()/splx() calls; I
haven't checked, probably sti()/cli() in Linux.

This sequence of events, with error messages, should be reported to the kernel
development team.
-- 
        Dave Ihnat
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