From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 1 13:21:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24153 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24099 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA16113; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:21:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:21:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Nicole H." cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No! I refuse to die! In-Reply-To: <199805292000.NAA13093@krell.webweaver.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 May 1998, Nicole H. wrote: > I have been having a problem lately where I seem to get processes that > get stuck and refuse to die or be killed. The usual symptom is that > users cannot login even via the console, however root can via the > console. kill -9? > If I use top, I will see some user processes that look odd, and I > cannot kill them. Nor can I kill the users shell process. What do these wierd processes look like? I'm guessing you're getting zombies. Are you getting any log messages from normal programs exiting with signal 11's? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message