Re: Dumb; help! I removed a mounted floppy
Eric Worden wrote:
> I was using git, and while things seemed to be idle I snuck the floppy out
> to peak at the label. I put it back in. Then after the next operation I
> got:
>
> kernel panic: msdos_write_inode: unable to read i-node block
> floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 3
>
> Now the program responds to nothing, not even KILL. To make things more
> interesting, I got the bright idea to mount the floppy again, so now two
> processes are in limbo. Is there a graceful way to solve this problem??
>
> Eric Worden
>
I can't think of anything brilliant to do with the disk other than reformat it, but
won't kill -9 <process #> as root from another virtual console a least make
zombies out of them ? (not graceful - but hopefully effective)
John
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