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Re: [users] Unkillable process



> 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.

Thanks.
Problem is this:
now that I have a dead mozilla process in the background, netscape doesnt
want to run without manual interaction (when I run netscape as that user,
I'll have to manually kill a process that pops up because netscape saw a
mozilla process already "running"). It's not bad, but it gets kinda
messy after a while.
Andrei

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