Bug#292856: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: unkillable process
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686
Version: 2.6.8-12
Severity: normal
A process hung, and was not killable, even with kill -9.
The process was started as
find . -name '#cvs*'
Here's an attempt to kill it:
$ ps -e -f | grep find
root 6147 5192 0 06:25 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/find
gpk 7627 3790 0 13:21 pts/1 00:00:00 find . -name #cvs*
gpk 7783 7630 0 14:46 pts/6 00:00:00 grep find
$ kill 3790
$ kill -1 7627
$ kill -3 7627
$ kill -9 7627
$ ps -e -f | grep find
root 6147 5192 0 06:25 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/find
gpk 7627 3790 0 13:21 pts/1 00:00:00 find . -name #cvs*
gpk 7786 7630 0 14:48 pts/6 00:00:00 grep find
$ cat /proc/7627
Name: find
State: D (disk sleep)
SleepAVG: 79%
Tgid: 7627
Pid: 7627
PPid: 3790
TracerPid: 0
Uid: 1000 1000 1000 1000
Gid: 1000 1000 1000 1000
FDSize: 256
Groups: 24 29 100 107 1000 1003 1004
VmSize: 1528 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS: 444 kB
VmData: 152 kB
VmStk: 12 kB
VmExe: 48 kB
VmLib: 1276 kB
Threads: 1
SigPnd: 0000000000000100
ShdPnd: 0000000000084107
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 0000000000000000
SigCgt: 0000000000000000
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: 0000000000000000
CapEff: 0000000000000000
$ cat /proc/7627/statm
382 111 341 13 0 369 0
$ cat /proc/7627/maps
08048000-08054000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 418729 /usr/bin/find
08054000-08055000 rw-p 0000c000 03:01 418729 /usr/bin/find
08055000-08076000 rw-p 08055000 00:00 0
40000000-40016000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 161041 /lib/ld-2.3.2.so
40016000-40017000 rw-p 00015000 03:01 161041 /lib/ld-2.3.2.so
40017000-40019000 rw-p 40017000 00:00 0
40019000-40142000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 198255 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so
40142000-4014a000 rw-p 00129000 03:01 198255 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so
4014a000-4014d000 rw-p 4014a000 00:00 0
bfffd000-c0000000 rw-p bfffd000 00:00 0
ffffe000-fffff000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
$
The directory it was started in seems entirely normal.
I can cd there and do ls -l:
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 6 gpk 1001 4096 Nov 25 00:01 arles
drwxr-xr-x 3 gpk 1001 4096 Jul 2 2003 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 gpk 1001 351 Jul 30 2002 bkp_1destiny.sh
drwxr-xr-x 3 gpk 1001 4096 Jul 30 2002 data
drwxr-xr-x 3 gpk 1001 4096 Jan 9 2003 lib
drwx------ 2 gpk 1001 4096 Jul 30 2002 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 gpk 1001 4378 Jul 30 2002 phondef
drwxr-xr-x 6 gpk 1001 4096 Jul 30 2002 src
drwxr-xr-x 28 gpk 1001 4096 Dec 15 2003 text
$
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.77 tools to create initrd image for p
ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
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