Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:07:51AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > (Don't know about the HURD, but I don't consider that a reasonable > choice until there's both a solid, stable HURD and a Debian or > Debian-like distro for it, with a good selection of available packages.) Hurd as OS seems pretty us

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:20:23PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: | On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:31, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:53:15PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: [found a 'D' process, can't kill it, short explanation] | Although referring someone who is frustrated wit

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 February 2003 19:07, Craig Dickson wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.13.1257 +0100]: > > > (For all those who don't know what /proc/kmem is: DON'T DO THIS!) > > > > For all those who'd have to do this on a regular basis: switch

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:32:21PM +0100, René Seindal wrote: > With such a system there is really no way of dragging a recalcitrant > process out of kernel mode. If it is stuck in there, it is stuck. > Signals are registered, but not delivered, because the transition to > user-space never happens

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Craig Dickson wrote: > > martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.13.1257 +0100]: > > > (For all those who don't know what /proc/kmem is: DON'T DO THIS!) > > > > For all those who'd have to do this on a regular basis: switch to > > a better OS. > > Such

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread Craig Dickson
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.13.1257 +0100]: > > (For all those who don't know what /proc/kmem is: DON'T DO THIS!) > > For all those who'd have to do this on a regular basis: switch to > a better OS. Such as? This sort of unkillable process can e

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:31, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:53:15PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > | i have a process waiting for data on a device that doesn't exist > | anymore (USB). now the process is listed as uninterruptibly sleeping. > | i want to get rid of it, bu

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread René Seindal
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:31:12AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:53:15PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > | i have a process waiting for data on a device that doesn't exist > | anymore (USB). now the process is listed as uninterruptibly sleeping. > | i want to get

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:53:15PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | i have a process waiting for data on a device that doesn't exist | anymore (USB). now the process is listed as uninterruptibly sleeping. | i want to get rid of it, but kill -9 doesn't do anything, the process | remains. | | what mu

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:17:06PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.13.1257 +0100]: > > (For all those who don't know what /proc/kmem is: DON'T DO THIS!) > > For all those who'd have to do this on a regular basis: switch to > a better OS. or ge

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.13.1257 +0100]: > (For all those who don't know what /proc/kmem is: DON'T DO THIS!) For all those who'd have to do this on a regular basis: switch to a better OS. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 February 2003 00:04, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jeffrey L . Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.12.2215 +0100]: > > AFAIK, there is not any way to kill this short of rebooting. > > one more proof that Linux is actually flawed. going BSD... > it seems that popularity of a s

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-12 Thread John Hasler
René Seindal writes: > There was no way of eliminating a process in an uninteruptable sleep. It > might have changed in later BSDs, but it not only a Linux thing. It hadn't as of BSDOS which I switched to Linux from. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-12 Thread René Seindal
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:04:04AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jeffrey L . Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.12.2215 +0100]: > > AFAIK, there is not any way to kill this short of rebooting. > > one more proof that Linux is actually flawed. going BSD... > it seems that popularity

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeffrey L . Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.12.2215 +0100]: > AFAIK, there is not any way to kill this short of rebooting. one more proof that Linux is actually flawed. going BSD... it seems that popularity of a software is indirectly proportional to its correctness. oh my lord. -

Re: killing a 'D' process

2003-02-12 Thread Jeffrey L . Taylor
Quoting martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i have a process waiting for data on a device that doesn't exist > anymore (USB). now the process is listed as uninterruptibly sleeping. > i want to get rid of it, but kill -9 doesn't do anything, the process > remains. > > what must i do to kill this