From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 19: 2:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4ED61518D for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:02:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA00232; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:30:28 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA35051; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:30:27 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990410113027.C2142@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:30:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ladd J Epp , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BSD/OS problems (was: Locked Processes) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Ladd J Epp on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 08:30:35PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 9 April 1999 at 20:30:35 -0500, Ladd J Epp wrote: > Hello, > I'm having a problem which actually resides on one of our BSDi boxes. I'm > having problems with a process which will not kill, even when I use the > kill -9 command. It's a user using csh, and his session got cut off but > the server never logged him out. > > Any suggesions? This sounds like a BSDI problem. You need to contact them about it. Typically it's the result of a kernel bug, which leaves the process waiting in an unstoppable state. You could try looking at the wait state info given by ps -l and finding where the kernel calls tsleep() with that string. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message