Hi :)

El Martes, 10 de Octubre de 2006 13:12, Frank Steiner escribió:
> Hi,
>
> after burning a DVD I rsync'ed the whole DVD back to the hard disk to
> check if there are no read errors. Suddenly a bad sector appeard and the
> log file started filling with entries

[...]

> Now, I tried to stop this somehow:
> - the rsync can't be killed, not even as root with kill -9.
>
> - umounting with -l claimed to work, but I couldn't eject the DVD
>
> - finally, after about 10 minutes I ejected the DVD physically from the
>   drive, but Linux doesn't care about this? rsync is still running and
>   can't be killed, and the logfile still fills with entries like
>   above every few seconds (with increasing sector numbers), although
>   the DVD has not been in the drive for more than 15 minutes now.
>
> How can I stop this? Why can't I kill the rsync and how can I make
> the drive recognize there is no DVD anymore? Some way to reset the
> drive or sth.?


You can't kill process which are in state D (Uninterruptible sleep it's usally 
IO related). Not even if you're root.

   Rafa


-- 
"Even paranoids have enemies."

Rafa Grimán
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Silicon Graphics Spain
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