On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:03:19 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom schreef: >>> Roman Khomasuridze wrote: >>>> xkill is your friend. >>>> >>>> or kill -9 >>> >>> But OP said he tried that and it did not help. >>> >>> >> Try to kill the parent process. If it doesn't have a parent process, >> then it is unkillable. It uses no recourses, so usually it is not a >> problem. >> > But OP said that it had the CPU pegged, so indeed a reboot is the only > way to solve this.
"You can't kill the dead" (it's not my phrase, read bellow...) :-) Linux Tips / Zombies http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/zombies.html Summarizing: "(...) You have three choices: Fix the parent process (make it wait); kill the parent; or live with it. Remember that living with it is not so hard because zombies take up little more than one extra line in the output of ps." Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.22.17.14...@gmail.com
