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 Systems Engineer Silicon Graphics Spain Santa Engracia, 120 - Planta Baja 28003 Madrid Spain Tel: +34 91 3984200 Tel: +34 91 3984201 Móvil: +34 628 117 940 http://www.sgi.com OpenWengo: rgriman Skype: rgriman --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
