There has been some discussion that these hung states could be "fixed", but that's absolutely positively incorrect.
That's one of the things I asked a few messages ago. Some people on the list were saying that it'd be "really hard" and would "require a lot of bookkeeping" to "fix" permanently-D-stated processes... which is completely different than "impossible."
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