Corey Brune wrote:
On 7/2/06, *O. Hartmann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Sometimes it happens on my FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE/AMD box, that a process,
in most cases xine, firefox oder thunderbird, show status 'STOP' in top
and are unkillable!
Trying to kill them as root (sending signal 9 throught 'kill' or
'killall') doesn't have any effect.
Can anyone help and tell how to kill such a job? The only way getting
rid of those processes is reboot the box and this can not be the
right way.
Thanks,
oh
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A process cannot be killed in certain situations. For instance, if the
process is waiting on a IO request, it will block all signals until the
request is completed or fails. Could you mount /proc, and do a truss on
the process? Also, which version of FreeBSD are you running?
Thanks,
Corey
Hello Corey.
As I wrote, the version of FreeBSD is 6.1-STABLE/AMD64 as newly built on
yesterday.
You're right, xine was obviously waiting for some kind of I/O. I was
reading a music file from a DVD mounted via amd automounter and after a
short spinup the connection was lost by some unknown reasons, maybe the
amd or faulty amd setup.
After a shutdown, the box got stuck at the point at whihc the kernel
reports syncing done and then nothing happened for an eternity. Only a
hardreset helped. In the meanwhile, I was capable of opening the DVD
tray door and get the DVD.
oh
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