Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:37:16 +0200 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Stuck "mt status" command -- how do I kill it? Message-ID: <014d01c259c2$41992c00$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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I gave a "mt status" command on a DAT drive that was still loading the tape. For whatever reason--not sure if it was hardware or software--the command hung, with the light flashing on the tape drive. Try as I might, I couldn't get past this command, which I issued on the console. CTRL/C did no good. I tried logging in as root from another terminal and killing the process for the mt command with -9, but nothing happened. A ps command reported the process as being in state D. I tried issuing the same command from another terminal, and that hung too, but I was able to kill it just by disconnecting (not an option on the console). I finally killed the calling shell on the console, which logged it off. That didn't kill the process running mt, but it did free the console. At that point I was out of ideas so I rebooted, which made the problem go away. Was there any other option besides a reboot in this case? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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