From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 22:54:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A1637B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dhumketu.homeunix.net (dialpool-210-214-66-147.maa.sify.net [210.214.66.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA6F43F75 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:54:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net) Received: by dhumketu.homeunix.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 39170415; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:19:28 +0530 (IST) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:19:27 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan To: daniela5743@gmx.net Message-ID: <20030718054927.GA238@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: daniela5743@gmx.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <2680.1058394647@www42.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2680.1058394647@www42.gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Hmmm... I dunno X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE process is unkillable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 05:54:25 -0000 +-- 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 # kill -15 Regards, Shantanu