Hello,
Last night I finally had to push the on/off switch to get out
of Linux :(
I had been running xawtv (tv viewer) which had an option to
write and view avi files of what is broadcast. Somehow in using
this program I started several (maybe 7) xanim jobs which were
all zombie. There were also other processes which were zombies,
all told about 35. I got out of KDE and logout of VC1 and found
it would not regenerate the login prompt. Logged in as root to
VC2 and check ps aux. Tried killing the zombies (fruitless to
kill something dead). Logged out VC2 and found it did not
regenerate the login. Logged into VC3 and tried "init 1",
"teleinit 1" both had no effect in getting into single
user mode. Did "shutdown -r now" and "shutdown -h now" both
of which did not work. Did "sync" and hit the off switch.
Question: What would a non-newbie (I've used Linux for about
2 years) do to recover without having to reboot. I
had over 20 days uptime.
System: Running Kernel 2.2.3 along with required rpm updates
on a RedHat 5.2 system.
PS I know this is not a SuSE question but I'm hoping there is
someone knowledgeable that can help.
Regards,
Terry Eck
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