On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:39:49AM -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> Is there any way to kill these short of a reboot? (Feels s M$).
Not really. A process that get into that state is usually due to improper
handling of interrupt-driven events; the interrupt was either missed or
improperly handled,
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:06:39 -0430
> "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 19:02 +0100, John Maclean wrote:
> > > pkill -f name-of-process
> > >
> > > That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first
> > > pl
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:06:39 -0430
"Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 19:02 +0100, John Maclean wrote:
> > pkill -f name-of-process
> >
> > That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first
> > place
> >
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>
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 19:02 +0100, John Maclean wrote:
> pkill -f name-of-process
>
> That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first
> place
>
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A process in 'D' state *cannot* be killed. There was a recent discussion
of this o
pkill -f name-of-process
That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first place
Regards,
John
On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:39, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I bought a Memorex external CD/DVD + SDHC but the CD/DVD part works once and
> becomes unresponsive. I've tried openi
Am 11.06.2012 19:39, schrieb Mike Wright:
> Hi all,
>
> I bought a Memorex external CD/DVD + SDHC but the CD/DVD part works once and
> becomes unresponsive. I've tried
> opening and reinserting the media but nothing seems to happen, but iIt
> appears that each time I did that it spawned
> ano
Hi all,
I bought a Memorex external CD/DVD + SDHC but the CD/DVD part works once
and becomes unresponsive. I've tried opening and reinserting the media
but nothing seems to happen, but iIt appears that each time I did that
it spawned another process. Even the "eject" command hangs.
On insp
