pkill -f name-of-process That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first place Regards, John On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:39, Mike Wright <mike.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I bought a Memorex external CD/DVD + SDHC but the CD/DVD part works once and becomes unresponsive. I've tried opening and reinserting the media but nothing seems to happen, but iIt appears that each time I did that it spawned another process. Even the "eject" command hangs. > > On inspection I found some processes using "ps -ax" that are marked with the status "D". The man page says that indicates an uninterruptable sleep. > > Is there any way to kill these short of a reboot? (Feels soooo M$). > > TIA, > Mike Wright > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
