Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:54:28 -0400 From: Marc Ramirez <marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] unkillable multithreaded processes stuck in `STOP' state Message-ID: <200410211754.28172.marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <200410212227.02663.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <200410211523.52663@misha-mx.virtual-estates.net> <200410212227.02663.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Thursday 21 October 2004 04:26 pm, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Thursday, 21. October 2004 21:23, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > Hello! > > > > This happened twice already -- first with KMail and now with Kontact. > > A process crashes as usual (KDE's 3.3.0 release was of unusually low > > quality), and seems to go away, except it does not. It stays in the > > `STOP' (according to top(1)) or in the `T' (as per ps(1)) state and > > can not be killed -- neither with -CONT, nor with -KILL. > > [...] > > > This is all, probably, due to something in KDE's attempts to capture > > crashes and collect backtraces for better bug reports. But whatever bugs > > they may have there, having an unkillable process -- of any kind -- > > worries me greatly. Is this a known issue, or is a PR warranted? > > There have been no similar reports (to my knowledge) and I haven't seen > anything similar on either 4.x or 5.x (I don't run 6-CURRENT). I'm seeing something similar with OpenOffice. I'm in the process of building a kernel with kdb to try to diagnose. Marc. -- Marc Ramirez Blue Circle Software Corporation 513-688-1070 (main) 513-382-1270 (direct) http://www.bluecirclesoft.com http://www.mrami.com (personal)
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