This question has been asked elsewhere, but I haven't seen anyone answering it.
I have occasional problems with artsd (version 1.0.0, as in RH7.3), which stops functioning (i.e. no sound). It also takes 98% of my CPU, and a quick look at its /proc entry shows that it has a modest 207 files opened, almost all of which are /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav. The process is reported running ("R" in ps) and the time consumed entry is steadily counting up.
This is a rather common behaviour on my computer. I suppose there is a bug in artsd, but that's still not the issue.
The issue is that I can't kill the process. The process number is 11005, I go kill -9 11005 as root, and nothing happens (no, there is no process number confusion here). This looks like a kernel problem to me (I'm using 2.4.21). I mean, is there any normal condition, in which a process should *not* be killed as a result of a "9" signal?
Thanks in advance, Eli
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