Re: Unkillable process with firefox
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> "Ds+" means the process is:
>
> D → uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
> s → session leader
> + → run in foreground
>
>> So some kind of evil process firefox is involved in.
>>
>> as root:
>>
>> # kill -KILL 2617
>>
>> But again `ps wwaux' reveals the same line.
>>
>> How does one go about kill a process that even root cannot kill with a
>> signal 9?
>
> This is what Google gives:
>
> Processes in an Uninterruptible Sleep (D) State
> http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7002725&sliceId=1
OK, whats the trick? How do you find this stuff so quick...?
According to Novell, that means it is unkillable short of a reboot.
But maybe I can supply the i/o it is waiting for... trouble is I
cannot find it. Doesn't show up in top at all. I see no instances of
firefox at all. Allegedly it is in the foreground, so shouldn't I be
able to see it?
Its hard to believe that on linux there can be a process that will
prevent user from accessing the web browser, and that it cannot be
killed short of a reboot.
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