Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-21 Thread Ian Balchin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:42:40PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin insinuated: > > I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message. I killed them from > > top but cannot get use of tty1 back which still shows the process. > > > > I do not want to r

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:09:23PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:44:21AM +0800, csj wrote: > | To sum up this discussion: zombies can be killed, but only if you know > | their mothers. Is this correct? Kill the parent process and the zombies > | go away? > > If that is the reason

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:44:21AM +0800, csj wrote: | To sum up this discussion: zombies can be killed, but only if you know | their mothers. Is this correct? Kill the parent process and the zombies | go away? If that is the reason for their existance, yes. If the zombie is blocked in a system

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-20 Thread csj
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:37:26 -0800 "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:52:25 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:15:49AM +0800, csj wrote: > > | On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:42:40 -0600 > > | Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | > > | > on T

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:44:48 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:37:26PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > | On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:52:25 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | > Those processes are blocked on IO or something. Thus it is the > | > _kernel_ its

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:37:26PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:52:25 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Those processes are blocked on IO or something. Thus it is the | > _kernel_ itself that is stuck, which is why SIGKILL has no effect. | > When a process is ex

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:52:25 -0500, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:15:49AM +0800, csj wrote: > | On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:42:40 -0600 > | Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | > on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin insinuated: > | > > I locked

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-19 Thread ben
On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:52 am, dman wrote: [snip] > > Those processes are blocked on IO or something. Thus it is the > _kernel_ itself that is stuck, which is why SIGKILL has no effect. > When a process is executing in its own space, the kernel can kill it > and clean up the pieces. When t

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:15:49AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:42:40 -0600 | Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin insinuated: | > > I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message. I killed them from | > > top but cannot

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-19 Thread csj
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:42:40 -0600 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin insinuated: > > I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message. I killed them from > > top but cannot get use of tty1 back which still shows the process. > > > > I do

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin insinuated: > I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message. I killed them from > top but cannot get use of tty1 back which still shows the process. > > I do not want to reboot. Any magical suggestions which rtfm to > examine? ps aux | grep tty

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | Hi, | | I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message. I killed them from | top but cannot get use of tty1 back which still shows the process. Does 'top' or 'ps' still show the process? Which signal did you use to kill it? Use SI

killed process still on-screen

2002-01-17 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message. I killed them from top but cannot get use of tty1 back which still shows the process. I do not want to reboot. Any magical suggestions which rtfm to examine? Ian -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running Debian