Bug#464591: linux-source-2.6.24: kill -9 is a nop
Package: linux-source-2.6.24
Version: 2.6.24-1
Severity: normal
File: linux-source-2.6.24
this bug report will be dismissed as useless, but it's important to
document the existence of the bug.
a process, index++, which uiam is part of swish++, consumed 100% of
cpu. kill -1 failed. all values of nice worked, smoothly increasing
or decreasing cpu usage.
but kill -9 had no effect. an infinite loop of kill -9 had no effect.
rm on the file being written hanged. ext3. autocomplete on the file
hanged. ls on the dir eventually failed although it worked before.
other processes worked. telinit q and telinit 2 did nothing. perhaps
they are supposed to. i am just reporting the facts.
go ahead and dismiss this. but it'll be here for people to search and
perhaps somebody with a clue about the cause will find it useful.
thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24myver-2-first (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.24 depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bzip2 1.0.4-2 high-quality block-sorting file co
Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.24 recommends:
ii gcc 4:4.2.2-2 The GNU C compiler
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii make 3.81-3 The GNU version of the "make" util
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