Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:39:29 -0700 (PDT) From: zenin@www.archive.rhps.org (Zenin) To: gnut@cki.ipri.kiev.ua (Oles Hnatkevych) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kill -9 Message-ID: <199808172339.QAA14757@thrush.omix.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980817154844.8845A-100000@cki.ipri.kiev.ua> from Oles Hnatkevych at "Aug 17, 98 03:51:14 pm"
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> I got a process (bash) that is not killed even by kill -9. > and it blocks my ttyv0. What the hell is that? ;-) > ps ax writes: > 317 v0- IEs+ 0:00.00 (bash) > what is the process that can not be killed by -9 ? ;-) One that is stuck in a system call, such as maybe one interacting with ttyv0 while the ttyv0 driver is toast. Ps will do this too on SGI (and maybe others) if utmp gets hosed for instance. Such processes are locked in a kernel state they can't get out of, and so can't be killed. Reboot if you can, or fix the problem and ignore the lost pids. -Zenin zenin@archive.rhps.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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