Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:10:06 -0800 (PST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: misc/2596: dd refuses to respond to SIGkill Message-ID: <199701270110.RAA09069@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/2596; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: tihor@bsd.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/2596: dd refuses to respond to SIGkill Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 02:02:33 +0100 As tihor@bsd.org wrote: > Occasionally using dd to write an image to a floppy dies (floppy > light doesnt come on, kill -9 fails to kill it). This occurred when > comparing write times for various bs arguments to dd. Please, log into another terminal on that machine, and see on which event the process is waiting (_before_ trying to kill it). You can see this in the WCHAN field of a ps -alx listing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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