Re: How to kill a dead loop program?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:17:26 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

>   rred coming from apt lost itself in my box. The apt package version
> is 0.8.15.8. The process in ps axfl is: 0     0 10270     1  20   0 
> 58428   620 ?      R    ?        3821:44 /usr/lib/apt/methods/rred
>   Now I cannot kill it, kill -9 did work, either. And it uses 100% of
> a cpu core.
>   What should I do if I do not want a reboot?

There is registered a similar situation here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505092#42

Anyway, are there any apt instances running in the background?

ps aux|grep apt

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón