Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 05:23:00 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PID with a 'D' status - what to do? Message-ID: <20010806052259.A231411@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <15214.16928.322835.749014@guru.mired.org>; from "Mike Meyer" on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:07:12AM References: <85913237@toto.iv> <15214.16928.322835.749014@guru.mired.org>
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:07:12AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> types: > > What is the proper way to deal with a PID having a "D" status - i.e., > > it's uninterruptable - so that I can 'shutdown' cleanly? > > D is supposed to be a short term wait. If it's waiting on something > that's never going to happen, you might as well ignore it and shut > down anyway. What's it waiting on? > > <mike The pid is an attempt at mounting my CD Changer which my recent posts outline. It never does mount. I did a 'shutdown -h now' on a couple of these occasions only to have the system hang after the "sync message" on exit. The subsequent boot then produced a warning that the system had not been shutdown properly. So I was wondering if there was an "I don't care! kill this pid" command? -- -duke Calgary, Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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