Re: unkillable find process

2014-02-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Perhaps killall -9 -w find grep does the trick. For what reason ever, I experienced that I had to add the -w option to the SIGKILL to stop audio apps by my audio session scripts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: unkillable find process

2014-02-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I consider this SOLVED (gmail breaks threads sorry). See syslog (some select lines) below - it looks like this USB adaptor is not properly supported by the kernel. Now I have the problem I had yesterday: without rebooting, I am now stuck it seems: $ sudo umount /n/ umount: /n: device is busy.

Re: unkillable find process

2014-02-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
PPS, there are two gnu screen windows which are completely hung. The one with the find outputs ^C and ^Z, but other keypresses like Ctrl-Q and Ctrl-D do nothing. In the screen session which I had a command I was about to run, a mv with one argument (had not put in the other argument yet), no kepr

Re: unkillable find process

2014-02-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Further: $ ps aux | egrep find justa 8558 0.0 0.0 9080 836 pts/9D+ 11:20 0:00 find . -maxdepth 4 That shows its STAT(E) as "D+", man ps: Duninterruptible sleep (usually IO) Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-C just output the characters ^Z and ^C respectively, to my screen session. The first

unkillable find process

2014-02-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I ran something like the following: cd path/of/website/mirror find . -maxdepth 4 | grep -i god This is running on an external USB drive mount. The process hasn't stopped, after many minutes. It has pid 8558. Running sudo kill -9 8558 does not kill the process. Ctrl-C does not kill the process. Wh