Hi there! I ran into a problem today where xcdroast crashed several times when reading a cd image off a cd and I wanted to kill it. No big thing I thought, send it a SIGTERM, if this does not work, use a SIGKILL. Well, I did so but after I sent it a SIGTERM using kill -s 9 <processid> `ps` still showed the process. Then I killed the parent process of xcdroast (bash) in the hope this would work. No luck, xcdroast was still there. The next thing I tried was sending a SIGTERM and then a SIGKILL to all processes but init using SysRQ. After logging in again, xcdroast still was a process. I tried to reboot my computer but `umount -a -r` claimed some partition was still busy (the partition xcdroast wrote the image file to. I tried with different partitions and it was always the one xcdroast wrote the image file to). SysRQ s && SysRQ u saved the day... What I'ld like to know wheter there is a more elegant way to kill such a process without rebooting. Thank you -- Weasel http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP encrypted messages prefered. See my site for my PGP key. -------------------------------------------------------------- A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
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