On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:31:26PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > 'm running a 2.4.3 kernel with 2.2.1 glibc. Every now and then > unkillable > processes popup on my system (usually something that didnt shut down > properly). It was xemacs once (and a ton of different processes that it > runs), which prevented me running xemacs again as that user. Now it's > mozilla .9. I have 2 processes sitting there doing nothing but preventing > me starting netscape as a user. ps aux shows: > scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 28888 4876 tty1 D May10 0:00 > /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin > > and I cant kill it with any signal. Short of restarting machine I dont > have any way to get rid of them. Is there a better solution or an > explanation why this happens?
# kill -9 pid_number doesn't work? What happens when you kill X with "Ctrl-alt-backspace"? Both programs you mentioned are running in X. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke