To quote RMS (to the tune of "Beat It")
"When you discover that a process won't die,
If kill -9 won't work there's nothing else to try.
Your jobs are dead meat, so kiss 'em goodbye
And boot it. 50 hours of work,
Just boot it, boot it.
And if you can't boot it, shoot it!"
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 12:11, Mario Lombardo wrote:
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> Bad news. Since the process' parent was INIT-5 (via "ps -ef"), I thought by
> dropping into runlevel three it would go away. I was wrong. In fact, I
> tried to go into runlevel one--still no go. Maybe if I ran INIT again??
> Anyway...
>
> In conclusion, I did have to reboot. I'm going to have to research how this
> sort of thing happens and how it can be avoided. I'm hoping I won't need a
> programmer's knowledge to make my discoveries.
>
> /mario
>
>
>
> On Thursday 11 March 2004 01:23, you as Mario Lombardo wrote:
> > I'm trying to kill the following processes, first with no flag and then
> > with -9
> > They won't die. Why?
> >
> > 7328 ? D 0:00
> > 7454 ? D 0:09
> > 7602 ? D 0:08
> >
> > /mario
> >
> >
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