Hi You may try kill -12 and kill -15 BUT you cant kill a process that is waiting on io .... cheers Szemir
On December 16, 2003 00:19, Ian Bruseker wrote: > So, I was copying a file from my watch (a USB memory watch), and the > process hung. lsof shows me the to and from files still open, which means > I can't unmount the drive properly (yes, I could just disconnect the USB, > but that's not the point). But a `kill -s 9 <process id>` of the cp > process doesn't touch it. Even as root I can't kill it. Now, I have > another process (a mv of about 20 files, from one partition to another, not > involving the watch drive) that died and it can't be killed either. Yes, I > can reboot my machine, but is there something that would work other than > that to kill off these mostly dead processes? > > Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
