On Tue, 22 May 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote: AI> 'm running a 2.4.3 kernel with 2.2.1 glibc. Every now and then AI> unkillable AI> processes popup on my system (usually something that didnt shut down AI> properly). It was xemacs once (and a ton of different processes that it AI> runs), which prevented me running xemacs again as that user. Now it's AI> mozilla .9. I have 2 processes sitting there doing nothing but preventing AI> me starting netscape as a user. ps aux shows: AI> scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 28888 4876 tty1 D May10 0:00 AI> /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin AI> AI> and I cant kill it with any signal. Short of restarting machine I dont AI> have any way to get rid of them. Is there a better solution or an AI> explanation why this happens?
netscape is known doing this, 'kill -9 <PID>' should get rid of them, signal 9 is not maskable. Dingo. ).|.( '.`___'.` ' `(>~<)' ` -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coder - Purple Dragon MUD pdragon.org port 3333 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=- Oxymoron: Microsoft Works -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-