Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:56:46 -0500 From: "Corey Brune" <mcbrune@gmail.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kill an stopped process Message-ID: <562705370607021656xb9401dapdc5808df609d0e92@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44A7AC66.3070805@mail.uni-mainz.de> References: <44A7AC66.3070805@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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On 7/2/06, O. Hartmann <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> wrote: > > Sometimes it happens on my FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE/AMD box, that a process, > in most cases xine, firefox oder thunderbird, show status 'STOP' in top > and are unkillable! > Trying to kill them as root (sending signal 9 throught 'kill' or > 'killall') doesn't have any effect. > > Can anyone help and tell how to kill such a job? The only way getting > rid of those processes is reboot the box and this can not be the right > way. > > Thanks, > oh > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > A process cannot be killed in certain situations. For instance, if the process is waiting on a IO request, it will block all signals until the request is completed or fails. Could you mount /proc, and do a truss on the process? Also, which version of FreeBSD are you running? Thanks, Corey
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