From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 5: 4:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.147.1.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535FA37B401; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 05:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leblanc@smtp.ne.mediaone.net) Received: from canada.acadia.ne.mediaone.net (acadia.ne.mediaone.net [65.96.185.189]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f76C4LS10417; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:04:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from leblanc@localhost) by canada.acadia.ne.mediaone.net (8.11.5/8.11.5) id f76C0VI76222; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:00:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from leblanc) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:00:30 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PID with a 'D' status - what to do? Message-ID: <20010806080030.A76146@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <85913237@toto.iv> <15214.16928.322835.749014@guru.mired.org> <20010806052259.A231411@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20010806052259.A231411@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-bright-idea: Lets abolish HTML mail! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did you try 'kill -9 '? This amounts to "kill this with extreme prejudice, don't bother to clean up." HTH L On 08/06/01 05:23 AM, Duke Normandin sat at the `puter and typed: > 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? > > > > > 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 > -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ Accuracy, n.: The vice of being right To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message