Re: Can't play audio CDs

2001-07-13 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > I have an ATAPI CD-ROM drive (actually a Creative > > > Dxr2 DVD drive), which I can't get to play audio CDs > > > under debian. > > > > > ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom > > and in > > /etc/fstab put > > /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,auto 0

Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?

2001-07-12 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, David Fuchs wrote: > The `D' tells you that the process is in an uninterruptible disk wait > state. This can only be caused by a kernel problem with the i/o > routines, a filesystem problem, or a device driver problem. There > really isn't anything you can do but restart

Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?

2001-07-12 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Well, if its a zombie process, it'll go away by itself after a while. > Can you send an output of ps aux for that process (or top), please? > Andrei not zombie... 19355 rothaar9 0 90588 88M 476 D 0.0 17.6 0:01 plot.out from top. I actu

Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?

2001-07-12 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:06:57AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: > > Is there any way to kill a process that kill -9 won't remove without > > rebooting? > > Unblock the process in the kernel, so its pending signals can be handled. > This is admittedly rathe

Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?

2001-07-12 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:39:09AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:06:57AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: > > > > Is there any way to kill a process that kill -9 won't remove >

Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?

2001-07-12 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:06:57AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: > > Is there any way to kill a process that kill -9 won't remove without > > rebooting? > > No, kill -9 is as harsh as it gets. Have you tried to kil

Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?

2001-07-12 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
> I think this was a problem with 2.4.3 kernel (I know I've had it on my > system). The fix was to upgrade to 2.4.5 > Andrei I'm already running 2.4.5... -Dan

harsher kill than kill -9 ?

2001-07-12 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
Is there any way to kill a process that kill -9 won't remove without rebooting? thanks in advance, -Dan

single-user mode? strange

2001-06-26 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
I recently ran dselect and did an upgrade with unstable which had the result that I can't log in at all (typing 'root' at the login promt returns Login Incorrect, I don't even get to try the password, similar results with the kdm login screen). My first thought was to boot into single user mode an