[ale] kill an unkillable ?

[cfowler]

Usually you can not kill p process that is blocking in I/O and something
is worng.  I would assume that the program issued a syscall() and some
code in the driver got screwed.

There is usually only one way to kill this type of process.

Hit the "reset" switch also known as the kill the unkillable switch.

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 15:44, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> Any way to overwrite/modify something in /proc/<PID> ?   I'd rather not
> mess with the device as it's devfs and some odd things can happen.
> 
> Thus spake James P. Kinney III (jkinney at localnetsolutions.com):
> 
> > Subject: Re: [ale] kill an unkillable ?
> > From: "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
> > To: Atlanta Linux "User Group (E-mail)" <ale at ale.org>
> > Organization: 
> > X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 
> > Date: 10 Dec 2002 15:23:35 -0500
> > 
> > <shudder> Legato </shudder>
> > 
> > If kill -9 won't unlock it, short of directly overwriting the RAM
> > address locked by legato, a reinit will be required.
> > 
> > telinit <current runlevel> _might_ give init the power to drop it
> > without rebooting the box.
> > 
> > You could also try removing the /dev/nst2 and remaking it.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 14:06, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > >   I've got a legato network thread locked into /dev/nst2.  Sucker is
> > > aparantly lost in space.  If I do an "fuser /dev/nst2" it gives the pid,
> > > a kill -9 does nothing.  
> > > 
> > >   Any way to kill one of these processes other than to reboot?  It's
> > > getting rather common on this guy.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > :wq!
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> 
> 
> :wq!
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: FC96D405
>                                
> DISCLAIMER:
>       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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