Hate to say this, but mabey you should reboot. It sounds like there is some
issue with your tape drive. Were you doing a backup when this started? Mabey
something with your backup software.

Kirk

>At 07:30 PM 3/28/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Yes.  The processes still show up.  The really bad thing about this
>problem is that I can't access my tape drive /dev/st0 now.
>
>
>
>Hidong
>
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>> Have you tried
>> killall tar
>> 
>> Kirk
>> 
>> >At 04:15 PM 3/28/00 -0800, you wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I'm trying to kill some tar processes, but I can't.  They show up like
>> >this with ps aux:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >root     12166  0.0  0.1  1224  432 ?        D    15:54   0:00 tar Xcvf
>> >backup.e
>> >root     12174  0.0  0.1  1224  432 ?        D    15:57   0:00 tar -X
>> >backup.exc
>> >root     12209  0.0  0.1  1224  432 ?        D    16:01   0:00 tar -X
>> >backup.exc
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >When I issue a command like 'kill -9 12166', there's no error message,
>> >but the process doesn't get killed.  I'm working as root.  How do I kill
>> >these processes?  Thanks,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Hidong
>> >
>> >
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