Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:15:33 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@uni-mainz.de> To: Corey Brune <mcbrune@gmail.com> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kill an stopped process Message-ID: <44A8C415.1000603@uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <562705370607021656xb9401dapdc5808df609d0e92@mail.gmail.com> References: <44A7AC66.3070805@mail.uni-mainz.de> <562705370607021656xb9401dapdc5808df609d0e92@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Corey Brune wrote: > On 7/2/06, *O. Hartmann* <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de > <mailto:ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>> wrote: > > Sometimes it happens on my FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE/AMD box, that a process, > in most cases xine, firefox oder thunderbird, show status 'STOP' in top > and are unkillable! > Trying to kill them as root (sending signal 9 throught 'kill' or > 'killall') doesn't have any effect. > > Can anyone help and tell how to kill such a job? The only way getting > rid of those processes is reboot the box and this can not be the > right way. > > Thanks, > oh > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>; > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" > > > A process cannot be killed in certain situations. For instance, if the > process is waiting on a IO request, it will block all signals until the > request is completed or fails. Could you mount /proc, and do a truss on > the process? Also, which version of FreeBSD are you running? > > Thanks, > Corey Hello Corey. As I wrote, the version of FreeBSD is 6.1-STABLE/AMD64 as newly built on yesterday. You're right, xine was obviously waiting for some kind of I/O. I was reading a music file from a DVD mounted via amd automounter and after a short spinup the connection was lost by some unknown reasons, maybe the amd or faulty amd setup. After a shutdown, the box got stuck at the point at whihc the kernel reports syncing done and then nothing happened for an eternity. Only a hardreset helped. In the meanwhile, I was capable of opening the DVD tray door and get the DVD. oh
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?44A8C415.1000603>