On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 08:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > If kill -9 won't kill it, it's suspended in an uninterruptible state > in the kernel, usually waiting for some "short term" event that will > never happen. IOW it's a bug. This sort of thing has always existed in > Unix and related systems and is a PITA, but it's not easy to fix.
It's not something that I'd seen often, except for recently. It's been happening a lot this last couple of weeks on a laptop that I usually suspend, rather than shutdown. With Firefox being the thing that would not die. And, of course, thanks to Firefox's insistence on not starting a new instance when it reckons Firefox is still running, means you have no choice but reboot to browse again. Most of the other processes could be killed, when I've bothered to try. Though I once found an unkillable bash. I can't recall whether that was a problem, or not. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
