On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:50:32 -0400, Steven Feinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was running k3b and it looked like it wasn't doing anything while writing > (but the CD drive was still flashing). After a while I decided it was not > working and stopped the CD writing. K3b came back with a message about > timing out. But the CD light kept flashing. SO I figured there was a > process still running. > > I found 2 processes using cdrecord. I tried to kill them using kill as user > and nothing happended. So I logged in as root and tried and still they > would not die. I then tried using kill -9 on the processes and they still > would not die. I ended up rebooting. > > Is this a kernel bug because I thought kill -9 (as root) would kill > anything? > > Is there something else I could have tried?
You could have tried waiting it out to see if the CD writer ever finished what it was doing. I had a similar experience with a tape drive. I had to wait for the drive to finish its thing (which took a long time) before the process in question would die. Geordie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
