SUMMARY: kill -9 doesn't kill!

From: Emanuele De Fazio <emanuele.defazio_at_semagroup.it>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:47:42 +0200

Thanks to all who have answered me.

Lars Bro has written:

 - If you use for example ps ax, I bet that the offending process will be
 - in "U" state. This means that it waits for some interrupt and that the
 - kernel does not permit the process being killed before the interrupt
 - comes. Which means that if the interrupt comes and the process is
 - released, it will immediately face the pending kill -9. As far as I
 - know, this can happen with eg.: tape devices which are the focus of
 - nsrmmd.
 -
 - So, If it doesn't go away by itself, you will have to reboot the system.

 - If it doesn't harm anyone, you can just leave it there. Maybe if you
 - restart nsrd, it wont notice that this process hangs there. Maybe if you

 - try to operate the tape station...


I knew that there was to wait but I didn't thought so much (one hour before

the process has died)

Thanks again

Bye

DE FAZIO Emanuele



Emanuele De Fazio wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a process:
> root 13385 1 0.0 Aug 13 ?? 11:25.92
> /usr/opt/networker/bin/nsrmmd -n 1
>
> kill -9 13385 doesn't kill it!
>
> 1) I can't reboot now.
> Is there a way for kill it without a reboot?
> -
>
> 2) I have a Legato networker server running and now I have 2 processes:
> root 13385 1 0.0 Aug 13 ?? 11:25.92
> /usr/opt/networker/bin/nsrmmd -n 1
> root 28173 23747 0.0 09:50:19 ?? 0:00.03
> /usr/opt/networker/bin/nsrmmd -n 1
>
> (the first process has been caught from init after a previous
> shutdown of networker server)
>
> Could I have some problem?
> -
>
> Thanks
>
> DE FAZIO Emanuele
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