I've been trying to burn a CD using gcombust.
For some reason the burn got stuck halfway through (the output of
cdrecord, which gcombust calls, said that all of a sudden one of the
SCSI commands couldn't be understood. It's a HP USB CDWriter using
the usb-storage module, which uses a series of scsi modules.)
I closed gcombust and tried running it again to blank the CD and start
again. But it turns out that the old cdrecord processes are still
running:
$ ps aux | grep cdrecord
root 1978 0.0 0.2 1412 232 pts/0 D 13:39 0:00
/usr/bin/cdrecord -reset dev=1,0,0
root 1983 0.0 5.8 5512 5512 pts/0 DL 13:42 0:00
/usr/bin/cdrecord dev=1,0,0 -load
root 2018 0.0 5.8 5512 5512 pts/0 DL 13:53 0:00
/usr/bin/cdrecord -v -dummy -pad speed=4 dev=0,6,0 blank= all
The state is "D", which means uninterruptible: the processes do not
respond to kill -9.
Is there any way short of rebooting that I can clear these processes
out?
Drew
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