Re: kill: cannot kill some processes
Brian Stults wrote:
>
> As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot
> be killed. Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to
> install a package. After waiting for a long time, I try both Ctrl-c and
> Ctrl-z and neither will work. Then I try to kill the process from
> another xterm. It looks as if the kill worked, but when I do a ps, the
> job is still there. It also just happened with df. I use this to kill:
>
> kill -9 [pid]
>
> Any suggestions?
does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone
zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd
processes die on their own eventually many times they will not die until
you reboot ..
its rare..but it can happen.
nate
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