Re: Dumb; help! I removed a mounted floppy

2000-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
Eric Worden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >'kill -9' (or 'kill -s KILL' for the mnemonic-dependent) does not work. > >I have a UNIX book that says in a footnote, "...kill may not always >work...for instance, if the process invoked a device driver that is stuck >waiting for a response from the device

Re: Dumb; help! I removed a mounted floppy

2000-05-08 Thread Eric Worden
'kill -9' (or 'kill -s KILL' for the mnemonic-dependent) does not work. I have a UNIX book that says in a footnote, "...kill may not always work...for instance, if the process invoked a device driver that is stuck waiting for a response from the device. In that case the signal will wait indefin

Re: Dumb; help! I removed a mounted floppy

2000-05-08 Thread Ron Farrer
Eric Worden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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?? First: thou shelt not remove mou

Re: Dumb; help! I removed a mounted floppy

2000-05-08 Thread John Carline
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 > e

Re: Dumb; help! I removed a mounted floppy

2000-05-08 Thread Peter Muirhead
00 (PDT) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Dumb; help! I removed a mounted floppy 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 bl

Dumb; help! I removed a mounted floppy

2000-05-08 Thread Eric Worden
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,