Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom schreef:
> > Roman Khomasuridze wrote:
> > >     xkill is your friend.
> > >
> > >  or kill -9
> >
> > But OP said he tried that and it did not help.
> Try to kill the parent process. If it doesn't have a parent process, 
> then it is unkillable. It uses no recourses, so usually it is not a 
> problem.
But OP said that it had the CPU pegged, so indeed a reboot is the only 
way to solve this.