> | If "kill -9 pid" doesn't work, would killall work? > > Of course not. > > Basicly, if kill -9 doesn't remove the process, it is > wedged on some > kernel level resource. When that comes good the process > will exit but > not before. > > Does "lsof -p 25618" (adjust for whatever PID) tell you > anything useful > about the hung process? Is the tape drive ok? Does the > command "strace > -p 25618" (again, adjust) tell you what function call is in > progress, > and what it is accessing? Probably the tape drive, but > check out the > system call file descriptor against those shown by lsof. > -- > Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> Indeed no OS command can "kill" a process that kill -9 cannot "kill". But if the process is associated with some hardware, you can try doing something on it. For instance, pulling a cable may fire a trigger inside the device driver and wake up the stuck process from the kernel space. Yong Huang -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
