Re: killing a 'D' process

["Jeffrey L . Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>:
> i have a process waiting for data on a device that doesn't exist
> anymore (USB). now the process is listed as uninterruptibly sleeping.
> i want to get rid of it, but kill -9 doesn't do anything, the process
> remains.
> 
> what must i do to kill this process? it can't be that i can get
> a process to lock into the scheduler so as to not get out anymore...
> 
> thanks,
> 

AFAIK, there is not any way to kill this short of rebooting.

Jeffrey