On 14:49 13 Mar 2003, James Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > In the event that this happens in the future, does anyone know | > > of a method that will kill a process when "kill" fails? | > | > kill -9 <pid> | > I've only very rarely seen that fail. | | On Thursday 13 March 2003 14:56, Robert Adkins II wrote: | > That failed continually... There was no error message regarding | > the failure to kill the process. I also gave a few other 'kill' flags a | > go and they didn't do the trick either... | > Any other suggestions?
| Try "kill -SIGKILL <pid>" Argh. That _is_ "kill -9"!! Gadzooks! If kill -9 doesn't work, nothing else will either. The process is in the kernel, doubtless grinding away at some unbounded and hopeless error recovery process. Having tried signal 9 (KILL) you have exhausted your options. If the kernel _does_ ever give up on the error recovery the process _will_ die, but until then it'll grind away because it's not in code that considered the signal list. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. - Haiku Error Messages http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
