From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 24 18:45:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rebel.net.au (rebel.rebel.net.au [203.20.69.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F59E14DF2 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:45:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkenn@rebel.net.au) Received: from 203.20.69.77 (dialup-7.rebel.net.au [203.20.69.77]) by rebel.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA13741 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:15:29 +0930 Received: (qmail 21666 invoked from network); 25 Jul 1999 01:45:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (kkenn@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jul 1999 01:45:25 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:15:24 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway Reply-To: kkenn@rebel.net.au To: Kevin Day Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unkillable processes In-Reply-To: <199907250138.UAA06405@celery.dragondata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > For one, do another 'ps' with the 'l' option, so you can see what it's stuck > on. UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 1000 1103 1086 29 75 20 5740 384 - TWN ?? 0:00.00 (kvt) 1000 1109 1103 0 4 0 1504 0 ttywri IWs+ p1 0:00.00 (tcsh) 1000 92724 1086 279 105 20 5736 356 - RN ?? 139:40.13 kvt -T Termi 1000 92743 92724 2 18 0 1576 0 pause IWs p8 0:00.00 (tcsh) > The second process is a zombie, which isn't killable until the parent tells > it to go away. (Which could very possibly be the first kvt) Both still present empty terminal windows on my desktop and were spawned from the KDE panel. The second one was running a copy of pine and was in the same state as the other initially, until I kill -KILL'ed the pine process, at which point it changed to what it is now. Kris > Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message