Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 13:19:16 +0200 From: Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl> To: Matej Ondrusek <matej@matej.sk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to remove dead process in the "exiting" state Message-ID: <20030526111915.GC19105@dragon.stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <004001c32378$32ff5db0$f84b10ac@matej> References: <004001c32378$32ff5db0$f84b10ac@matej>
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Matej Ondrusek wrote: > It occured me more times that the process I have tried to remove using > "kill -9" ended in the dead state when ps was showing "IE" status and I > could do nothing with it except rebooting. Do you have any idea, how is it > possible that some process comes to such a strange state ? Do you have any > suggestion how to remove such a process without rebooting ? I'm using > FreeBSD 4.8. Not really an answer, but something you could try: a few weeks ago I noticed that an XFree86 process in IE after a kill -9 on it could be terminated by sending an additional kill -1 to it. Probably too specific for this program though (and it was on 5.0-CURRENT actually). -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology dean@stack.nl | dean@ipnet6.org | http://www.ipnet6.org/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli
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