From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 04:19:22 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 54D3C37B401 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 04:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A084243F75 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 04:19:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@dragon.stack.nl) Received: by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 7AB971F112; Mon, 26 May 2003 13:19:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dragon.stack.nl (dragon.stack.nl [2001:610:1108:5011:207:e9ff:fe09:230]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19AC31F110; Mon, 26 May 2003 13:19:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dragon.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 1600) id 0C1315F176; Mon, 26 May 2003 13:19:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 13:19:16 +0200 From: Dean Strik To: Matej Ondrusek Message-ID: <20030526111915.GC19105@dragon.stack.nl> References: <004001c32378$32ff5db0$f84b10ac@matej> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004001c32378$32ff5db0$f84b10ac@matej> X-Editor: VIM Rulez! http://www.vim.org/ X-MUD: Outerspace - telnet://mud.stack.nl:3333 X-Really: Yes User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-32.5 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to remove dead process in the "exiting" state 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: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:19:22 -0000 Matej Ondrusek wrote: > It occured me more times that the process I have tried to remove using > "kill -9" ended in the dead state when ps was showing "IE" status and I > could do nothing with it except rebooting. Do you have any idea, how is it > possible that some process comes to such a strange state ? Do you have any > suggestion how to remove such a process without rebooting ? I'm using > FreeBSD 4.8. Not really an answer, but something you could try: a few weeks ago I noticed that an XFree86 process in IE after a kill -9 on it could be terminated by sending an additional kill -1 to it. Probably too specific for this program though (and it was on 5.0-CURRENT actually). -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology dean@stack.nl | dean@ipnet6.org | http://www.ipnet6.org/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli