Hi,
As far as I know, this happens, when a process waiting for a hardware
resource.
Maybe something happened, which blocks the hardware, that means, the
kernel process never returns to the userspace.
This can be caused by bad/buggy hardware or buggy driver.
So, Richard is right, check your hardware, does everything work fine or not.
Regards,
István
Richard Fish wrote:
On 11/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
kill -15 PID
kill -9 PID
killall -9 process_name
but none worked. To make forward progress I just rebooted.
Is there some other way I could have tried killing this process?
Nope. Usually this means something went terribly wrong in hardware.
Pullling a hard drive out of the system while it is running is an easy
way to duplicate this problem, as it will cause the kernel to enter an
interminable reset loop to try and recover. Problems with network
filesystems could also cause something similar.
You should check dmesg output to see if the kernel is complaining
about something.
-Richard
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