Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:47:11 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: daniela5743@gmx.net Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: KDE process is unkillable Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0307160945200.25625-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <31052.1058342628@www48.gmx.net>
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 daniela5743@gmx.net wrote: > I don't have NVIDIA drivers. Is there any known bug in the > ATI Radeon driver? > > I rebooted, and all I have is the saved output from fstat, > no core dump. Is this enough to find out what was wrong? > Can I reproduce it under controlled circumstances? You said the process was marked as stuck waiting for disk activity. Do you have any network-mounted (or other unusual) filesystems on this machine? If a processes wedges in the middle of a kernel call, then you won't be able to kill it - the behaviour you've seen here. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Goedel would be proud - I'm both inconsistent _and_ incomplete.
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