Re: [users] Unkillable process

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500):
> scorpio   7314  0.0  3.8 28888 4876 tty1     D    May10   0:00
> /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin

this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead
process, it doesn't listen to anything anymore. there is no way you
can remove it without a reboot. the process is in "uniterruptible
sleep" state (implying it's doing some kind of i/o), but it's
definitely not interested in handling signals (even SIGKILL, which
you're the kernel isn't supposed to let you ignore). had plenty of
them, never succeeded without a reboot. but what do you care? just
leave them? they aren't eating anything away.

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