Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:19:27 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net> To: daniela5743@gmx.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE process is unkillable Message-ID: <20030718054927.GA238@dhumketu.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <2680.1058394647@www42.gmx.net> References: <2680.1058394647@www42.gmx.net>
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+-- daniela5743@gmx.net [freebsd] [17-07-03 00:30 +0200]: | > 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? | | I have a NFS server, but there were no connections at this time. | KDE sends stuff on port 111 via the loopback interface, but I don't really | know what it is doing. | | > 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. | | This may be a dumb question, but why the hell did the process use up all | the CPU time while it was waiting? | | I tried attaching to it with gdb and with truss, but I got no information. | I guess it is some kind of overflow, that caused the process to execute one | instruction repeatedly (only guessed, I'm not an expert). | | If it is an overflow, the cause must be in the environment. KDE was just | starting up, it did what it always does on startup. | | | | -- | +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ | | Jetzt ein- oder umsteigen und USB-Speicheruhr als Pr?mie sichern! | | | ------------------------------ try following in case you are having problem killing a process. # kill -9 <pid> # kill -15 <pid> Regards, Shantanu
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