>I logged into the box and discovered a number of processes owned by amanda
>attempting to backup that disk. I was able to kill all but two:
>
>root 29202 0.0 2.2 2672 1700 ? D Mar08 3:26 gtar ...
>root 30706 0.0 2.2 2672 1700 ? D Mar09 3:41 gtar ...
>
>I tried kill -9 <pid> on these, but couldn't take care of it. I don't want
>to reboot the box, because I'm not nearby to fix it if it doesn't come back
>up on its own.
You're going to have to reboot to get rid of these. The 'D' means
the process is stuck in the kernel in "disk wait". There is no (sane)
way out of that situation.
>Jim Kusznir
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
