Re: Another thread about a non-killable process
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:26:57PM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:18, Michael Marsh wrote:
> > On 7/11/06, Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com> wrote:
> > > Win32? Huh? This is a Debian system. Proftpd is locked (won't accept
> > > connections, even though it shows listening on *:ftp.
> >
> > Does it respond to kill -HUP?
>
> Nope, or to 3, 6, or 11. So, yeah, I'm down to trying random things. :)
'kill -9' is the biggest gun you've got - if that doesn't work, then
nothing will.
If it won't die, then it is stuck in a kernel mode loop, which usually
means a bug in a driver somewhere. I can't think of legitimate reason
for a process to get into that state...
Regards,
DigbyT
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