On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:00:15 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
According to Novell, that means it is unkillable short of a reboot.
But maybe I can supply the i/o it is waiting for... trouble is I
cannot find it. Doesn't show up in top at all. I see no
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
How did you run the firefox process, from a console?
I don't really remember for sure, but the ps wwaux output mentioned a
forum on the winamp web pages so I was probably reading the forum.
:-)
Maybe is that I did not express myself correctly... I
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:38:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
I have a situation I had not seen before where when I try to start
firefox I'm told its already running.
ps wwaux reveals:
(all on one line - wrapped for mail)
reader2617 2.1 6.9 804920 143440 pts/8 Ds+ Oct18 \ 31:58
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
Ds+ means the process is:
D → uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
s → session leader
+ → run in foreground
So some kind of evil process firefox is involved in.
as root:
# kill -KILL 2617
But again `ps wwaux' reveals the same line.
How does
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:32:35 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
(...)
How does one go about kill a process that even root cannot kill with a
signal 9?
This is what Google gives:
Processes in an Uninterruptible Sleep (D) State
On 10/19/2011 09:38 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I have a situation I had not seen before where when I try to start
firefox I'm told its already running.
ps wwaux reveals:
(all on one line - wrapped for mail)
reader2617 2.1 6.9 804920 143440 pts/8 Ds+ Oct18 \
31:58 /usr/bin/firefox
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
According to Novell, that means it is unkillable short of a reboot. But
maybe I can supply the i/o it is waiting for... trouble is I cannot find
it. Doesn't show up in top at all. I see no instances of firefox at
all. Allegedly it is in the foreground,
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