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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:26:03AM +0000, Freminlins wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I have a process which I cannot kill. It is stuck in the START state. Top
> shows this:
>=20
> 37028 frem         1 100    0     0K     0K START    5:20  6.54% acroread
>=20
> and ps shows this:
> frem    37028  6.5  0.0     0     0  v0  RE    2:40PM   5:20.33 [acroread]
>=20
> There is no entry for this pid under /proc.
>=20
>=20
> How do I actually kill this process? It's been running for over a day now.
> I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 Release.

It's a bug, I'm not sure if it's still present in 6.1.

It's not actually continuing to use CPU though, so it's not too much
to worry about.

Kris

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