Re: Unkillable process
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:31:26PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> 'm running a 2.4.3 kernel with 2.2.1 glibc. Every now and then
> unkillable
> processes popup on my system (usually something that didnt shut down
> properly). It was xemacs once (and a ton of different processes that it
> runs), which prevented me running xemacs again as that user. Now it's
> mozilla .9. I have 2 processes sitting there doing nothing but preventing
> me starting netscape as a user. ps aux shows:
> scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 28888 4876 tty1 D May10 0:00
> /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
>
> and I cant kill it with any signal. Short of restarting machine I dont
> have any way to get rid of them. Is there a better solution or an
> explanation why this happens?
# kill -9 pid_number
doesn't work?
What happens when you kill X with "Ctrl-alt-backspace"?
Both programs you mentioned are running in X.
kent
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