unkillable process ?
unkillable process ?
- Subject: unkillable process ?
- From: Pejvan BEIGUI <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 22:12:27 +0200
- Organization: Project:Omega
Hi everybody,
I've got a real and weird problem, which seems to come from the kernel,
and hence I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere else, i'm
asking it here:
How can anyone explain this:
> [2:10:22pm] _pejvan_ ~ >> kill -9 1026
> [2:21:32pm] _pejvan_ ~ >> kill -9 1026
> [2:21:33pm] _pejvan_ ~ >> kill -9 1026
> [2:21:33pm] _pejvan_ ~ >> kill -9 1026
> [2:21:34pm] _pejvan_ ~ >> sudo kill -9 1026
> Password:
> [2:21:42pm] _pejvan_ ~ >> sudo kill -9 1026
> [2:21:44pm] _pejvan_ ~ >> sudo kill -9 1026
> [2:21:45pm] _pejvan_ ~ >> ps -U pejvan | grep 1026
> 1026 ?? Us 0:00.02 /Users/pejvan/devel/[...]
I really need to be able to kill this process, since it totally blocks
the launching of any graphical app when it crashes, and there's no way
for me to restart the computer in clean way:
$ sudo shutdown now
will fail and after two or three minutes, I get in the text mode output,
with a message telling me that there have been some IPC failure, which
leads me to the question:
does the process crash and blocks some stuff? (which is totally wrong on
a preemptive OS)
does the IPC mechanism fail somewhere and make this process crash?
(which is weirder)
Anyway, since the kernel isn't able to kill it, it seems that this is
some kind of bug in the OS. Am I wrong?
any suggestions suggestion about killing this process?
is there any related bug reported about this?
Thanks for your help,
Pejvan
PS: this process is launched by a normal user, and hence run in user land.
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